Category Archives: Painting Challenge

Day 23- Fortuitous Tulips

Tulips. 6 x 6 watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2016 Sheila Delgado

WOW! After two bad, I mean REALLY bad right-into-the-round-file pieces… this! Well thank goodness. Meant I could finally go to bed!

I started with watercolor pencil, and clean water splattered on the paper. Towards the end I was tempted to add watercolor pencil to bring out leaf shapes, but I decided to forgo the chance of botching it! I thought my stems looked a bit too beefy, but I like the overall look of this. I like the way the colors mixed, and there are some interesting blooms as well.

Hallelujah AMEN!

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Day 22 – Desert Dusk

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Desert Dusk. 6 x 11 in. watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2016 Sheila Delgado

Desert Dusk was inspired by a long lost treasure I found while unpacking. A painting by Sara Steele. I had one of her calendars. The patches of tape on the back tell me I must have just stuck it up on the wall. I know I had it when I was in art school. It has always been a favorite. As is New Mexico.

Albuquerque Sunset. 23 3/4 x 9 in. © 1981, 1988 by Sara Steele, All Rights Reserved

Sorry about the terrible copy, but you get the idea. I couldn’t find a link to this online. Visit her site, there is a slideshow of some of her amazing works. Her colors are so decadent. How can you not fall in love with watercolor after seeing her flowers? Well, I did. Even before I knew much of anything about watercolor.

Once I painted this, I quickly did two more. Just having too much fun with colors! These hills are two shades of indigo. I lined them with pencil, which doesn’t show here, but I like it in person.

I managed to do five really good pieces yesterday, so I won’t have to use the ones that I am not so happy with. At least not until I get back. I also designed a tag request to be printed for the shower. I am sure I will be printing and cutting them out on Friday! For gift bags or, well, I will find out soon. It was two in the afternoon before I started the shower gift. But I finally had my idea all set! I still had to do a mani/pedi, a load of laundry, write 3 posts and shower before getting to bed early. Whew! But I did manage to sneak in a ten minute power nap!

Well, I am off! Back to San Diego and Jenny’s baby shower lollapalooza! Sure to be fun. I will be checking in on comments, but I may not be able to respond until I get back. Thank you in advance to those of you who visit! You really mean a lot to me!

I look forward to catching up on the art created each day and letting you all know how much I love it! Have an awesome weekend!

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Day 20 – Crop And Save

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Golden Hill. 3 x 6 watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2016 Sheila Delgado

This is too pretty to end up in the round file. I really like the tiny flowers, and the washes on the hill are interesting, if subtle. Could be cute bookmarks, if I slice it down the middle.

Golden Hill, whole. 6 x 6 watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2016 Sheila Delgado

I started out with a 6 x 6 piece of paper, but I could not get the hill in back to look like it was behind. No matter what I tried it just did not work. Softer. Faded. More grey. Just got worse. Finally I just cropped it digitally. That did the trick. I had fun in the process!

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