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World Watercolor Month 2023

Day 22, WWM 2023. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
Day 22, 5 x 5 in. WWM 2023. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.

For me, July started slow. Or maybe it was just me feeling like a sloth from the heat. Chug, chug, chug, then whoosh! I was in the mood for flowers this month. Still, I did manage to change it up here and there. I made an effort to use scraps, small bits of paper. And I had fun with those. The largest I worked this month was 5 x 5 inches. That felt like the perfect size for a daily painting.

I found a terrific video about painting wet on wet cats. Furballs. She also does birds, dragonflies and flowers that look really fun. I have since done about a dozen furry critters, that may turn up in a pattern soon. I stopped my watercolor month at 30. Monday was crammed, and I decided to cut myself some slack. I even snuck in a short nap. Actually, it snuck up on me. 🥴

World Watercolor Month 2023, Final week. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
World Watercolor Month 2023, Final week. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
Day 25, WWM 2023. Prickly Pear, © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
Day 25, 5 x 5 in. WWM 2023. Prickly Pear, © 2023 Sheila Delgado.

August means starting my planning for the September 30-Day Creative Gathering. What was it Cathy (comic strip) would say? ACK! 😲😄

✨✨ Coming soon! Our ninth gathering! Wowzers! ✨✨

Falling Leaves Wallpaper. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
Falling Leaves Wallpaper. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.

Falling leaves placed at #1497 of 1723 with 15 votes. I knew it would not place well when I voted and saw all of the fabulous florals. So gorgeous! But I am happy with this design and will do a few more colorways.

Thanks so much for following along with me this month. It went by fast, didn’t it? And thank you for taking the time to vote on Falling Leaves! I know it is a chore.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! 🙂
Chat with you soon!

Wishing you JOY!

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Days 13 – 19 Of The 30-Day Gathering

Day 13, CG FEB 23. 6 x 6 inch. Watercolor, acrylics, & digital. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
Day 13, CG FEB 23. 6 x 6 inch. Watercolor, acrylics, & digital. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.

We’ve rounded the last corner. Heading down the home stretch now.

In art, what we want is the certainty
that one spark of original genius shall not be extinguished.
Mary Cassatt

Creativity is more than just being different.
Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy.
What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach.
Making the simple, awesomely simple,
that’s creativity.
Charles Mingus

Day 18, CG FEB 23. 6 x 6 inch. Watercolor, & digital. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
Day 18, CG FEB 23. 6 x 6 inch. Watercolor, & digital. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.

Creative work is a gift to the world and every being in it.
Don’t cheat us of your contribution.
Give us what you’ve got.
Steven Pressfield

Day 19, CG FEB 23. 6 x 6 inch. Watercolor, & digital. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
Day 19, CG FEB 23. 6 x 6 inch. Watercolor, & digital. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Earl Nightingale

Week One Of The 30-Day Creative Gathering

Day 5, CG FEB 23. 6 x 6 inch. Watercolor, acrylics, ink & digital. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
Day 5, CG FEB 23. 6 x 6 inch. Watercolor, acrylics, ink & digital. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
Day 4, CG FEB 23. 6 x 6 inch. Watercolor, acrylics, ink & digital. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
Day 4, CG FEB 23. 6 x 6 inch. Watercolor, acrylics, ink & digital. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
Day 4 texture close up.
Day 4 texture close up.

I had so much fun with this texture. I scribbled with an Inktense pencil. I love how it turned out.

Day 3, CG FEB 23. 6 x 6 inch. Watercolor, acrylics, ink & digital. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
Day 3, CG FEB 23. 6 x 6 inch. Watercolor, acrylics, ink & digital. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
Day 2, CG FEB 23. 6 x 6 inch. Watercolor, acrylics, ink & digital. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
Day 2, CG FEB 23. 6 x 6 inch. Watercolor, acrylics, ink & digital. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
Day 1, CG FEB 23. 6 x 6 inch. Watercolor, acrylics, ink & digital. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.
Day 1, CG FEB 23. 6 x 6 inch. Watercolor, acrylics, ink & digital. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.

I am having so much fun. As you know, I have not been posting art the last few months. Only one or two pieces since the September Gathering. I’ve missed painting!

Even so, I was really stressed about starting again. Not sure of what to paint. Afraid I might flub it. You can see in day 1, how tight and linear I was. I still like it. The others are much more loose.

I am noticing that the parchment (creamy white) looks somewhat dingy here. It is the low resolution of the image. The color is clean, soft and bright in the paintings.

Well, back to work for me. I have to work on my Spoonflower design, due Tuesday at noon. I have some admin. tasks before I can hit the sack. I better get to it!

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically,
but it would make no sense;
it would be without meaning,
as if you described a Beethoven symphony as
a variation of wave pressure.
Albert Einstein