Category Archives: Mixed Media

A Day to Give Thanks

January 2015 Challenge Collage, #jan30in30

Thank you Leslie Saeta for bringing us all together. I am in awe not only of your wonderful art, but of how much you accomplish. I really feel I have grown as an artist, with each of your challenges. With this one especially. I am much more at ease with taking risks, and working through difficulties.

Thank you to those who took time to vote in Sea’s Art Party. Have you looked at the prizes in the giveaway? Don’t forget, voters are eligible!

Cindy, thank you for including me in your artist interviews this month. I appreciate the opportunity to introduce myself to your readers. It was such a pleasure to learn about the amazing artists you featured.

Sea Dean, thank you for creating the fun and fabulous Art Party! I really don’t know how you three manage to paint each day, write blog posts, run these huge month-long events, as well as running a business.

Sandy, thank you for nominating me for the 5 Day Art share on Facebook.

And a SUPER MEGA THANK YOU to everyone who followed my progress this month. Thanks so much for taking the time to comment, I really value your opinions! Thanks for the shares, and +1’s, likes and pins! Thanks to my new blog followers!

Thank you to Sea for my special birthday gift. So gorgeous!

And even though they were not birthday presents, thank you to Sandy and Kathy for the chance to have an original piece of your fabulous art! I am blessed!

Hope I am not forgetting anyone. But the way my mind works, and sometimes doesn’t, ya’ never know.

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I numbered the paintings in the collage, because I would like your opinion. Do you have a favorite? I am prepping postcards for Kat Sloma’s Liberate your Art swap. Below are some of my favorites, but I’d really love to hear what you think!

Friends, Final. 4 x 6 mixed media postcard. © 2015 Sheila Delgado

Green vase. 4 x 5 acrylic on paper. © 2015 Sheila Delgado

Petals and Moonbeams. 5 x 7 acrylic on paper. © 2015 Sheila Delgado

Birds and Bees, Final. 4 x 6 mixed media postcard. © 2015 Sheila Delgado

Watercolor postcard, final. 4 x 6. © 2015 Sheila Delgado

Bouquet. 4 x 6 acrylic on paper. © 2015 Sheila Delgado. #jan30in30, day 22

One last chance to vote at Sea Dean’s Art Party.
Each vote is a chance to win for the voter, and to votee!

1483 artists completed the challenge!
Find links to their work on Leslie Saeta’s blog.

Treat yourself to Cindy Williams artist interviews!

My Pinterest board for this event has grown to almost 1200 pieces of art.

Day 30 Of 30 Paintings In 30 days

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Idle. 4 x 4 acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas. © 2015 Sheila Delgado

Wind blows cold, alone
they stand, branches reach as if
they are holding hands.
S.M.D.

We made it! High fives all around! Yes, that means everyone who took Leslie’s challenge, even if you did not post everyday, or produce a full 30 paintings. Effort counts!

My painting today is another save. Actually I think I started three different times on this canvas. It has been sitting for months in between.

There is a grungy black, mucky mix as the base. I had too much turquoise from a piece I was working on the other day. Can’t waste paint. So I spread it on the canvas with a palette knife. I let it dry a bit, and then made scratch marks. I just now am realizing, I maybe should delineate the trunks that are overlapping.

I started the trunks by dripping paint, for a random placement. Then went back with a brush to add width to them. The branches and trunks wrap around the sides and top.

bbbbbbbbbbbbbbb Trees-wrap

Tomorrow all the participants will post a collage of their work. Today, I would like to share the collections I have from this month. There are also some odds and ends, I’ll show those tomorrow in the collage.

Flower Fields

Oh Lolly

Flowers and Trees

Fantasia

Feme

Bloom

Friends

Two more floral pieces have been started, to complete Fantasia. And I have finished pieces for the last three collections, Feme, bloom and friends. I will share those with you soon.

Hop on over to Sea Dean’s blog and vote, each vote is a chance to win!

Visit Leslie’s site for a look at the artwork created today.

Visit Cindy Williams and read one or more of her artist interviews!

My Pinterest board for this event is bursting with over 1200 pieces of art.

Day 28 – 30 Paintings In 30 Days

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Beryl. 6 x 6 watercolor on paper. © 2015 Sheila Delgado

“As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight.”
James McNeil Whistler

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies true strength,
and whosoever loves much performs much,
and can accomplish much,
and what is done in love is well done.”
Vincent van Gogh

So much for being ahead. I reworked every painting from this weekend. Started some new ones too. For today’s piece the answer was… just add water.

Most of the work I have done this month has been on watercolor paper. I have used scraps, and painted over failures. I haven’t stated what weight, because I just don’t know. I covered the bad pieces by using gesso or acrylic paint. This piece started that way. The lesson I am reminded of is this…

“Everything will be all right in the end. If it’s not all right, it is not yet the end”
Patel, Hotel Manager, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

It wasn’t all right. I used the wrong brush, and it was looking twiggy. A little water, and a lot of blending saved it.

Work in progress

Please take a few minutes, and visit the sites below. You will be glad you did. And if you visit Sea’s site, and vote for me… I will be glad you did! Shameless plug alert. I am one of the “leaders” In Sea’s Art Party. Here is an excerpt from her blog to explain it to you. I need your votes, and you can still vote on previous days. (I forgot to post a couple of days.)

The best part is, VOTERS ARE ELIGIBLE FOR PRIZES TOO!

The more you vote, the better your chance!

Thanks for voting!

PRIZES
Prizes given to the most active artists and voters that participate throughout the month. Posts, Votes, Comments, Shares etc. There are many prizes. A newcomer can still be a winner. To make it fair for late comers, a prize will be awarded for the highest vote count on one painting during the whole party. So invite all your supporters to visit and click on all the VOTE links below.

It’s going to take me a while to tally so I’m announcing the winners about a week after votes close on January 31st. Click here to see some of the prizes available … more will be added. Top winners pick first and so on till all the prizes have been awarded.

http://blueskyredearth.wix.com/seadeanart-party
On Review there is no clear winner yet. Many days show a draw between two or three artists. A few votes will really count, so make sure you vote each day using the links below. Vote for your favourite artist and then use your other two votes to select from all the other hard working artists.

Current leaders are, Beverly Shipko – Chey Anne Sexton – Cindy Gillett – Connie Cagley – Corinna Woodard – Donna Munsch – Ginnie Conaway – Marion Hedger – Nancy Romanovsky – Pam Schoessow – Sea Dean – Sheila Delgado – Susan Herbst – Val van der Poel and Wendy Mould.

Hop on over to Sea Dean’s blog and vote, each vote is a chance to win prizes!

Visit Leslie’s site for a look at the artwork created today.

Visit Cindy Williams and read one or more of her artist interviews!

My Pinterest board for this event is bursting with over 1100 pieces of art.