Category Archives: Postcards

Purple Tulips

This painting came together quickly. Nice surprise that. I goofed on the right leaf. Big time goofed. Wrong color choice. I mixed a green that was much too blue. I re-wet the area, and lifted it out (Thanks CheyAnne for the reminder.)

Two more layers of green there, and it was feeling kind of blah. So I added another, and it just was not complimenting the other greens. So I tried a layer of white gouache. And another. And then it was too white.

Work in progress, too much white.

If you take a look at tulip leaves, they often do have a white-ish, grayish cast to them. and are more on the blue side of green. But I really love the other greens, I did not want to change them at all.

The solution was to take some of the spring green that was still on my palette, and glaze over the leaf. Voila! You can see I also added some highlights to the bud on the right.

I am debating adding a brilliant color to the background. I was thinking of doing a series of four with the tulips in the previous post being the first. But I think that may detract from these flowers. I did a digital background, to try it out.

Purple tulips digital experiment

Maybe this color is not the right one. I am eager to hear your opinion. To add or not to add!

I am house sitting for friends this weekend, starting this afternoon. I apologize in advance, I may not be able to respond to comments or on Google+ until Monday.

Happy weekend y’all!

Tulips

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When scanned, the background shows as a lovely violet. Pretty, but not true to life. I am in love with this color right now. And yellow. And flowers. I woke up with the idea of an intense background, set off with bright yellow buds.

I suppose I should have added some leaves, they are as pretty as the flowers. Well, next time.

Hope you are staying cool, in your neck of the woods!

Postcard Art and Baby Hummer Sighting

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2nd postcard. Watercolor and acrylic on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2015 Sheila Delgado

Working on a submission for the A.I.R postcard show. This is idea #1 and I am going to do a fabric design with this as well. I have already started working on it, more on that later.

I know this looks simple, and it is. I went through nine revisions though. My first attempt is below. I wanted the dripping paint to be straight, and I was holding the paper correctly. Mystery breeze made for angled drips.

First postcard. Watercolor and acrylic on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2015 Sheila Delgado

I may have gone overboard with the splatters, But I am tempted to age it a bit more with scratches and marks. I am working on others. Don’t have a name for this, so if anything comes to mind let me know. This is obviously a cosmic remnant from Soul Art day.

Here is another mini. Scary Mary. Sally square head. She reminds me of every other photo in my high school yearbook. Eighties big hair. There was more, but I cropped it. Not very good, but proof I am still at it.

80’s Hair. 2 x 2 in. watercolor portrait on paper. Sheila Delgado 2015

For Sandy. Baby hummingbird in his nest. You can barely see him, look for the black beak pointing up. This is just outside the front door. (Rarely used) The nest is in the potato bush about six feet high. We thought there were two chicks, but now we can only see one.