Playful Peppermint Patti

 

The end. For now. 6 x 6 acrylic on paper. 2017 Sheila Delgado

The end. For now. 6 x 6 acrylic on paper. 2017 Sheila Delgado

 

More play with paint and paper. This is not a finished piece, and I still am not sure what I will use these for. But the point is I am painting, experimenting. Being creative. Oh and I should add that these images are photos, not scans. The colors and lighting are off a bit, sorry about that.

I signed up for, and received two free samples of Liquitex Heavy Body acrylic paint. This is part of the Liquitex cadmium free challenge. (You can see more on YouTube as well.) I was hoping for yellow. Because, well, you know what I like to paint with yellow. But freebie beggars can’t be choosers. Two .74 oz. tubes of cad red arrived.

They have been sitting on my desk for about two weeks. I am not much of a red user. Except to make other colors. I know, I know, my favorite Shiraz is a red. But it is so much more than red. 😉

So what to do with free red paint. Hmm. Yeah, Christmas. But I never feel like painting Christmas, until about the following February. So my thought was to use it as an accent, and “tone” it down with other colors. Yesterday, I used only white and red. Today I added Fuchsia.

To start, a layer of red, applied with the brayer.

 

 

Next was about five layers of different stamps and different colors. I was adding them so quickly, I forgot to take photos.

 

 

I should have stopped there. But it was a little messy in that bottom left corner.

 

 

There you go Sheila. Now you have really mucked it up. Only one thing to do.

 

 

 

And here we are. Stage one done.

 

The end. For now. 6 x 6 acrylic on paper. 2017 Sheila Delgado

The end. For now. 6 x 6 acrylic on paper. 2017 Sheila Delgado

 

There is a lot of wonderful texture going on from all the unseen layers.

 

Time to sit down to Season 2 of the Crown!

Happy Weekend!

 

 

 

 

18 thoughts on “Playful Peppermint Patti

    1. Sheila Post author

      Aww, thank you Chandra 🙂 Really enjoyed your Martin Luther King Jr. post. It was an inspiring day, so many showing him honor 🙂

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    1. Sheila Post author

      Thank you Carol. Several of these are sitting on my desk, one finally called to me. I am having fun, accomplishing nothing much. LOL 🙂

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        1. Sheila Post author

          Hi Cy! So nice to meet you. I really enjoyed your post on extravagance 🙂 You will feel so much better when you have simplified!! Happy traveling to you 🙂

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    1. Sheila Post author

      LOL, Whew, not just me, LOL. 😉 It is Kat. I find myself looking things up though, to see if it really happened that way. :))

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  1. Katie Jeanne Wood

    How lucky you are to get paint for free!! I followed the link, but I didn’t see any mention of their giveaway. I was hoping to sign up, and hopefully I’d get yellow, and we could trade. 😀 Aw, well. You can always mix the red with some blue, if purple is more your thing?

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    1. Sheila Post author

      Next time, I will be sure to let you know Katie 😉 LOL. That is how I usually use red, to make purple. LOL
      I thought they wanted me to compare and answer a questionnaire or something. But only the paint arrived. And I have not found on their site, a link to report in. :/

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  2. dotty seiter

    Sheila, thanks for the play by play. I love the chance to step into your studio and watch the evolution. Further, I value highly your experimentation, your not knowing what you are even going to use these experiments for.

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    1. Sheila Post author

      Thank you Dotty. So glad you enjoyed the tour 😉 It is freeing, not to have a grand plan in mind. But I don’t have to tell you that 😉 Have fun!

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    1. Sheila Post author

      Glad you laughed Val 😉 it seems I never get good ideas for Christmas, or any holiday, until after it has passed. LOL

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