Author Archives: Sheila

Day 21 – Keep On The Sunny Side

Keep on the sunny side. 6 x 6 watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2016 Sheila Delgado

I have a feeling I have linked to this video before. But the song came to mind while I worked on this, so I am sharing it again. Hope it will add a skip to your step!

Thought about getting away from the linear layout. Not sure if I like it. But it doesn’t help that I goofed the sky. Ended up too dark. Doesn’t add any light between the stems.

Funny, but I seem to be posting a lot of pieces that I am not completely happy with. Well, there are still some to come. I will have a count at the end, but there are at least five. That is almost a quarter of the work for the month.

Yet, I am posting them. And I am not feeling, in any way, like they are failures. Not sure if that is because I had to work ahead. (Wanted to.) Or if it is that I am becoming more comfortable talking about the learning process. Thinking about the process, instead of being focused on the end result only.

I had fun while painting this, and that counts!

Well here it is the day before I leave on my trip. And I STILL need to paint my gift for the baby shower. Sometimes I work well under pressure. Let’s hope this is one of them!

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Day 20 – Crop And Save

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Golden Hill. 3 x 6 watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2016 Sheila Delgado

This is too pretty to end up in the round file. I really like the tiny flowers, and the washes on the hill are interesting, if subtle. Could be cute bookmarks, if I slice it down the middle.

Golden Hill, whole. 6 x 6 watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2016 Sheila Delgado

I started out with a 6 x 6 piece of paper, but I could not get the hill in back to look like it was behind. No matter what I tried it just did not work. Softer. Faded. More grey. Just got worse. Finally I just cropped it digitally. That did the trick. I had fun in the process!

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Day 19 – Noble Nopales

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Noble Nopales. 4 x 6 watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2016 Sheila Delgado

Every time I see cactus flowers or prickly pears, I think “crown of thorns”. And sometimes I even hear Sandra Bullock saying it, like she did in Hope Floats. (Oh my gosh, that movie was made in 1998, I can’t believe it is that old!)

The luscious purple/magenta bulbs look like jewels to me. I am sure they do to the rabbits and birds too! Juicy fruit filled jewels.

I don’t know why, and I was unhappy with the fact that these came out dusty looking. Like there is a layer of white gouache. I only used watercolor, so it is a mystery. After a while, the next day, I decided it was not a bad thing. They do in fact look dusty or washed out, in life.

I spent the better part of the weekend cleaning and organizing. I felt like I was working in the middle of a pig pen. I was only using a small part of my desk, and the rest was covered in a mess of supplies. And you know how it goes, the mess always gets worse before it gets better! I am still at the “worse” stage. But there is always tomorrow!

Happy Monday everyone!

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