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Day 16 – No Doubt

Day 16. 8 x 8 Acrylic on paper. © 2017 Sheila Delgado

Tried something new. Well, sort of new. I have tried before. Painting with a palette knife. Turned out so bad, I kept adding splatter to cover up the yuck. It was still awful, so I added some texture to the table. Trying to bring the yuck together cohesively.

I am cringing. But yes, I am actually going to post this palette knife failure. When I scanned it, I made a last-ditch effort to save it. I added a digital center to the top bloom. I don’t think it made a bit of difference. You can see the original below.

Day 16 #2. 8 x 8 Acrylic on paper. © 2017 Sheila Delgado

Hope your day 16 was a huge success!

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Second Time Around

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Mountains, revision. 6 x 6 acrylic on paper. © 2017 Sheila Delgado

This view is pure imagination. Still, taking a cue from Mingus, I added some horizontal marks to the dark range. I hoped to add some definition to the front range as well. I don’t know if I was successful with that. Does it look like “hills”, or just one hill? I will look again tomorrow, and see if it feels better to me.

I used the palette knife, and my fingers to apply the paint. Here is another look at the before:

Mountains. 6 x 6 acrylic on paper. © 2017 Sheila Delgado

Day trip to Phoenix revealed these treasures along the way. I think I shared something like this first photo during September’s painting challenge.

Freeway art in Scottsdale, AZ.

I also found a new cactus to love. The totem pole cactus is thorn free! How cool is that?

Totem Pole Cactus.

Paper And Palette Knife

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Paper, paint, palette knife and twenty minutes. Finally snuck one in. I have painted every day for the last week. On projects and not art. Feel so much better now.

Started with a blank sheet of paper, no drawing or plan. Just the idea of palette knife practice. I reached for paint, and pulled out parched bottles. Spreading paint, scratching and scraping. Perhaps this is a work in progress.

I added a few phosphorescent trees at the bottom right. Plastic palette knife made marks to pudgy. I knew I could patch and polish in Photoshop, but this time it was just as easy to pile on more paint.