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!
My Pinterest board is over 1400 fabulous works of art!
Visit Leslie’s 30 in 30 blog, and see the art created today!
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There are the happy little flowers again 🙂 One week to go Sheila! HIGH FIVE haha 🙂
High five right back Cindy! Man it went by fast! Have a super weekend 🙂
What I love about you Sheila is you seem to love to experiment with your art and that is a great trait in an artist. It paves the way for your art to grow and for many others to learn from you. I always found when I just said what the heck and played with my art I always had the best out comes. Thanks for being you!
Thank YOU Lana for your kind and generous words. You are right about “what the heck”! I had sort of decided this was a lost cause at one point, and I just kept playing to see what else would happen. Thanks so much for visiting today 🙂 Hope you are keeping warm and cozy 🙂
Sheila,
1. Love the stucco effect of the background.
2. Love knowing how you created it—especially the plastic wrap part.
3. Love the someone-lives-here-and-uses/loves-this-table effect of the foreground.
4. Love your introducing us to Corinna Woodard’s work.
Happy Saturday to you!
Dotty
Glad you enjoyed the post Dotty 🙂 I was introduced to Corinna in the January 2015 challenge. Your words are a perfect description of what I wanted to create! I am not surprised. You are as much a wordsmith as you are an artist! Joyful Saturday to you Dotty 🙂
I think watercolor to be very difficult….lovely job…
Thank you Carol. Have fun painting today 🙂