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#The100DayProject – #23, #24, #25

Mingus Day #23. 3.25 x 5.25 in. Watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

Four small WIP’s on the table. Might catch up by tonight. Hoping that tomorrow I can get a head. Or at least get a few started. For these three, I was working from memory. Not referencing a photo, or looking at the mountain. I was working late last night. I found some photos, to show the colors I had in mind.

Today everything is a bright shade of grey. Partly sunny, mostly cloudy. Hazy. Not sure if that is from fire smoke drifting our way, or just the dust in the air. Very windy.

A day when there was green…

Mingus blues. SMD

So often the front range and Mingus are a pair in contrast. One dark and one light. When the light is right, it still surprises me, and forces me to stop and take notice.

Mingus Day #24. 4.5 x 5.25 in. Watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

Pale gold. SMD

Sunsets change everything. The are magical. I tell myself, the colors can’t be real. Yet there they are. A few minutes, and then they are gone. So again, I stop and take notice.

When I am driving in the car. Coming out of a store. Sitting at a traffic light. Mingus is visible. And the chance to steal a peek is never missed.

Mingus Day #25. 4.25 x 5.5 in. Watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

In the pink. SMD

Thanks for stopping by, and sharing the view with me!

#100DaysOfMingus Gallery

A Year In The Life Of Mingus

#100DaysOfMingus – #20

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Mingus Day #20. 5.25 x 12 in. watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

It’s official. I am a week behind. A WEEK. Oh well. No worries. I have two more that are almost complete. No really. I do. But I am feeling I might abandon them, and start fresh.

Neither of these, #20, are finished in my opinion. They both show my limitations. Absolutely no sense of depth or distance. Ugghh!

I thought this piece was too busy. I wanted layers of texture. But I ended up TOO busy. So I started to bury the marks. Then I thought, well, maybe if I simplify the sky, it will calm the marks down.

In the second attempt, I added the few hills in, that are in the gold section (See photo). But it wasn’t working. So I “erased” those too. But now it just looks blah-bland. Or am I just stuck on being too literal?

So posting, and calling it done for now. But I will come back to this. I really do like Mingus in this. Maybe I will cut it out and use it in a collage. LOL.

Mingus Day #20, revised. 5.25 x 12 in. watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

This is the view of Mingus from the south. I was heading north on the 69.

Mingus from the south. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

#The100DayProject – #16, #17, #18, #19

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Mingus Day #16. 4 x 6 in. watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

Mingus Day #17. 4 x 6 in. watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

These are a mix of acrylic and watercolor. Layers of color and patterns. Hoping to build more depth and detail. I went small thinking I would finish more quickly. But I put in just as much time as I have been on the larger paintings. I was having fun 🙂

Mingus Day #18. 4 x 6 in. watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

Mingus Day #19. 4 x 6 in. watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

I may add to these. Step back and return with fresh eyes. The sky in #16 is messy. For the last layer, I scribbled with Neocolors and then carefully wet, and moved the paint around. The last sky, #19 is relatively clean. You can see the progression from first to last.

Mingus Sunday afternoon.

Weekend tools.

Jam Session.

I have noticed on Instagram that there are several #100 participants that have fallen behind. I am not following all of those taking part, so it is safe to assume there may be more. This was the third week. Interesting to me, because it is always the third week in the 30 day challenges that is the hardest. And they say it takes three weeks to form a new habit. Hmm. Well turns out, that isn’t really true.