Category Archives: Acrylic

30 In 30, Day Twenty-One

Bouquet. Acrylic, pen on 5 x 7 canvas panel. © Sheila Delgado 2013

Wedding Bouquet ~ Marie Harrison

Wedding bouquet
Floral Bouquet dreams;
Women push and shove to catch,
Magical Foliage.

This canvas started out as a landscape. Then an abstract. This incarnation came from the leftover paint on my palette. I did not want to waste it, so I started playing. I thought this was horrible once it dried, and it is a bit crooked. I took out a pen as a last resort, and Bam! Not too terrible after all. I think it could work for a greeting card.

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30 in 30, Day Nineteen

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Acrylic, Gouache, and Pen on 5 x 7 canvas panel. © Sheila Delgado 2013

I always remember this poem wrong. It is one of my favorites, but one word always gets replaced in my mind. Maybe it is all those years in Choir singing “Silent Night”. I was trying to be so sure, I would write the correct word on the canvas. As you can see, I goofed again. I am laughing at myself, I was being so very careful.

I am the quiet type, so it makes perfect sense to me. My apologies to Lord Byron and to my college Poetry Professor Otto Pfeiff.

I am not entirely happy with this one. Her eyes and lips were there from the start, but her nose never made an appearance. I tried several but nothing worked. Maybe I will give her a nose job in a day or two.

She Walks in Beauty

BY LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON)

She walks in beauty, like the night

Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

And all that’s best of dark and bright

Meet in her aspect and her eyes;

Thus mellowed to that tender light

Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,

Had half impaired the nameless grace

Which waves in every raven tress,

Or softly lightens o’er her face;

Where thoughts serenely sweet express,

How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,

So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,

The smiles that win, the tints that glow,

But tell of days in goodness spent,

A mind at peace with all below,

A heart whose love is innocent!

30 In 30, Day 16

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Acrylic on 140 lb. paper

It was super hot again today, so fall has not found Southern California just yet. Wishful thinking I suppose. Days are a little shorter. I noticed for the first time today. Major bummer.

Hope you all had a happy Monday! Sending prayers out for friends and family in Colorado and New Mexico. For everyone, blessings!