Author Archives: Sheila

Prayer Potentiality

They are done! Whew! I thought it would take me four days to paint them. Nine 6 x 6 gallery wrapped canvases. But I finished them in three days. I also started the 8 x 8 requested at the last-minute.

My first try with that one was a disaster. It is in browns, with small touches of blue, green and yellow. It looked like I had spilled chocolate sauce all over the canvas. And not in an artsy, Pollock inspired way. More like I tripped and splattered the sauce, and then slipped in the mess, and spilled even more.

But it is better now. More Cafe au lait, and less Nestle. Time for the lettering and two coats of matte polyurethane and they will be ready for delivery.

Diamond Ikat Pattern

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Diamond Ikat. Digital pattern. 2015 Sheila Delgado

This is four views of the same pattern. The colors may change before I finish. Once I have all the pattern designs complete, I will coordinate the palettes to work together.

I know I am going to have a floral in the collection. Also a stripe. And I may do a “quilt” pattern combining them all.

Happy Sunday!

Birthday Notion

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Let Us Pray. 8 x 8 Acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas. Sheila Delgado 2015

Apologies for the bad photo quality. There is a glare off the upper right corner, altering the colors. This is my gift to a friend for her birthday. She loved it so much, that she asked me to do nine more. Those will be her gifts to the church council.

I was really intimidated by doing the lettering for this. I kept putting it off, actually. I started by using Photoshop to choose a font and layout, sizing it for the canvas. I printed it out, and then transferred it to the canvas.

I painted the letters, then outlined them with a waterproof pen. I had to go back and touch up a few spots with more white paint. I was sort of alternating between pen and paint to smooth out a few mistakes. But overall, the lettering was easier than I thought it would be, and I did not goof half as much as I expected. Nice surprise.

I also worked on a quick card.