Category Archives: Watercolor

Day 27

Bookmark, 2 x 7 watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2016 Sheila Delgado

Another contender. This has more pink in the background than is showing here. I used my Sakura Koi Water Brush. Sea Dean reminded me. I bought it, because I just thought it was so cool, just had to have one. It comes in three sizes, I think I choose the medium.

When I got it home and opened the package. I felt the bristles, and thought there is no way you could have much control. It feels worse than the cheap brushes you get in a kiddie watercolor set. So I sat it aside and forgot about it. I figured the next time I traveled I would take it with me.

Sea asked me if I had tried it, and so of course I had to. And I love it. It holds color well, and cleans easily. I just wiped it once or twice on a damp paper towel, and then dipped it in clean water, but I don’t think I really needed to. I did not see any color coming off in the water.

Now I am excited for the next road trip.
I can paint in the car.
I can paint near.
I can paint far.

I can paint by the pool,
with my handy, cool tool!

OK, that was bad. I am tired and it is 11:57. time to post and link up!

Happy 27th everyone!

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Day 24

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One more postcard for the LYA swap. I had lots of fun painting these flowers. Thanks to my Robert Simmons 3/8″ Angle Shader brush. I purchased that and a Winsor Newton #8 round a couple of months ago. I bought from different lines to try them out. I really like them both. They hold their shape well and hold water nicely. Seems like I can paint forever on one load. They have a nice feel to them as well.

Day 23 Revised

I think I have finished yesterday’s flowers. Fixed. They are better. I added some rust to help define them. May have missed the mark. Here is a look at the revisions and a slide show close-up of the flowers.

Day 23 close-up.

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Day 23 – WIP

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Day 23. 4 x 6 in. watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2016 Sheila Delgado

I am happy with today’s painting. Finally. The majority is completely overworked. Experiments gone awry. But I think I have salvaged it. I intended for the background and foreground to be lighter. Much like yesterday’s.

I guess that will teach me to work backwards. I most often begin with the flowers. The shapes. And then the container. The foreground and finally the background. Don’t know why I worked differently this time.

Day 23, WIP.

Here is a peek at part of the process. The foreground was looking sort of “pillow” or cloud like. Not what I wanted. Blooms gone bad.

In the background, you can see that the section on top was much too dark. So I wet a paper towel, and blotted out some of the color. Truth be told, some other areas were also too dark and I did the same with those.

To get those darker areas, I spread some paint on a piece of plastic wrap, and then placed it on the paper. I like the odd, angular shapes created.

I had completely flubbed the shadows on the vase. To fix it I just went back in and darkened the entire section. After I scanned it, I saw that there were some shapes that could work as a suggestion of shadow. So I went in again, and darkened them just a bit. I think it works now.

I am going to call this done for today. But I had intended on adding pencil lines to define the flowers and vase.

Have you been by Corinna Woodard’s blog? She has been doing wonderful felting art this month. Hearts and flowers, abstracts. Take a look! I was fortunate to be the recipient of her giveaway. How cool is that! Thank you Corinna!