Category Archives: Acrylic

Day 30 – 30 In 30

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Urchin Sea. Mixed media on 8 x 8 canvas panel. © 2014 Sheila Delgado

Urchin Sea. Mixed media on 8 x 8 canvas panel. © 2014 Sheila Delgado

I should have named this Urchin Sea study#1. I am going to be really honest and tell you that the vision in my head, is not what you  are seeing here. This was a great learning experience, I know what I will do differently next time.

Urchins. Mixed media on 8 x 8 canvas panel. © 2014 Sheila Delgado

Urchins. Mixed media on 8 x 8 canvas panel. © 2014 Sheila Delgado

The painted piece actually looks like this. I wanted pattern to be the dominant element. But when I saw the finished piece. It just looked, unfinished to me.

So I got creative in Photoshop. And part of the “mixed media” is the addition of a background. I placed yesterday’s painting behind the urchins, and I added slightly heavier borders as well. Very graphic, the black. Not very painterly perhaps.

I tend to lean to the graphic.

I will be painting this again. I have in mind the idea to use it as a repeating pattern. I used copper on two of the urchins, it never scans well. The grey looking color is actually a soft cream, and it looks better than it shows here.

I want to thank you for following my progress this month. I have so enjoyed hearing from you, our conversations really mean a lot to me. The best part of the challenge is that it is a shared journey, and new friends are often made.

Tomorrow I will be posting a collage of all the paintings I have done this month. For now, I will leave you with the paintings I have decided to submit for Bradford G. Wheler’s “LOVE SAYINGS: wit & wisdom of romance, courtship, and marriage.” Thanks so much for helping me make the decision.

Take a look at the daily gallery at Leslie’s blog.

 

 

This heart of mine. Mixed media on 4 x 4 in. gallery wrapped canvas. © 2014 Sheila Delgado
Love. Mixed media on 4 x 4 in. gallery wrapped canvas. © 2014 Sheila Delgado
Heart on Blue. Acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas. 4 x 4 in. © 2014 Sheila Delgado
Thoughts of you. Watercolor and gouache on Yupo. 4.5 x 6. © 2014 Sheila Delgado
My Heart. Mixed media on 4 x 4 gallery wrapped canvas. © 2014 Sheila Delgado
Heart. Mixed media on Yupo, 6 x 4.5. © 2014 Sheila Delgado
Ardent Daydream. Watercolor, acrylic, pen on Yupo. 2.5 x 3.5 © 2014 Sheila Delgado

 

 

Day 26 – 30 In 30

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My Heart. Mixed media on 4 x 4 gallery wrapped canvas. © 2014 Sheila Delgado

There might be one or two more of these. Paintings on this theme. I know I said I have enough. We’ll see what transpires.

I started this with my palette in mind. I actually had tried to use it during Leslies January Challenge. I still have two of those boards prepped and waiting to be finished. I found the color inspiration on Pinterest. A beautiful journal page by Roben-Marie Smith. I just love the messy, splotchy, warm feel of it.

I do wish my lettering skills were better. I have never been known for my penmanship. I remember once in grade school, must have been 2nd or third grade, a teacher commented on how bad it was. She was visiting our class, and I had just signed my name at the top of the paper. She was standing over me, and in a snooty voice, she said, “How can you even read who this is?” And my teacher said, ” Oh that is easy, that’s Sheila!”

I remember thinking, if I had all that space at the top of the page, I was going to use it. Paper is made to be used, right? To this day, I can never sign my name the same way twice. Just doesn’t happen.

I will never be a typographer and calligraphy is out of the question, even with a cheater, chiseled pen.  I so admire those with the talent!

It would have helped, if I had a decent pen. All of my pens are dying… I need a pen sale fast! But even with my crookedy-second-grader writing, I like how this turned out.

Hope you will visit the gallery on Leslie’s blog today!

 

 

 

Icky Banana. Mixed media, 8 x 8 canvas panel. © 2014 Sheila Delgado

Day 25 – 30 in 30

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Whew, we are over the hump, and comin’ round the bend. I have to admit I am glad we are almost there. I have had a high ratio of good paintings to bad, but I am not sure how long I can keep that up! ;-.)

For today, I worked on an 8 x 8 canvas panel. I took my cue for an artist I admire, Sandrine Pelissier. She does amazing large-scale work, and her floral arrangements are so fun and cheerful. I know part of the reason I love them so much, is all the pattern details she adds to them.

Icky Banana. Mixed media, 8 x 8 canvas panel. © 2014 Sheila Delgado

Icky Banana. Mixed media, 8 x 8 canvas panel. © 2014 Sheila Delgado

I had too much fun on this. It is not a one day painting. I prepped the panel with the purple  a couple of days ago. Cool found tool – I used a nail head to “stamp” the circles on the table.

Only a few days left to enjoy the gallery on Leslie’s Blog.