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Daily Painting & World Watercolor Month 2022

Day 1, WWM. 4 x 4 watercolor on paper. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

I am participating in World Watercolor Month, founded by Doodlewash and created by Charlie O’Shields. I am also working on repeat patterns for my Spoonflower shop, I’ll share more about that later. For WWM, I am keeping it simple. My theme is circles.

My thought is to create repeat patterns using some of the circles created this month. Below you will see some examples. Just a quick mock up with several background versions. It needs a bit more editing before it is Spoonflower shop ready.

Would you like to see more watercolor art?
Check out #worldwatercolor, and #worldwatercolormonth on Instagram.
You are welcome to join the fun, it’s never too late!
Happy July to you!
Thanks so much for following along. 🙂

Day 2, WWM. 4 x 4 watercolor on paper. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

Day 3, WWM. 4 x 4 watercolor on paper. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

Day 3, WWM. Pattern 1. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

Day 3, WWM. Pattern 3. © 2022 Sheila Delgado. — Day 3, WWM. Pattern 1. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

Day 3, WWM. Pattern 5. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

It’s the circle of life, and it moves us all,
through despair and hope,
through faith and love,
’till we find our place,
on the path unwinding.
Elton John

We are all joined in a circle of stories.
Linda Joy Myers.

Circles, like the soul, are never ending
and turn round and round without a stop.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Ranunculus On A Rainy Night

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Watercolor, acrylics, gouache, digital marks. I started with layers of pattern using Inktense pencil, acrylics, stencils and a texture sheet. After painting the blooms and vase, It was boring. It needed more but I didn’t know what. It sat for two days.

Ranunculus, Before. Watercolor on Paper. 10 x 10. © 2022 Sheila Delgado. — Ranunculus, before. Watercolor on Paper. 10 x 10. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

I pulled out my digital pen (laptop), and drew swirls over the blooms. 3 layers, one for each color. (I needed a fourth layer, where the two darker blooms overlap on the right.) I drew complete swirls over each bloom, and had to erase areas where blooms overlapped.

At the end I copied and pasted a bloom to the top right, to fill a hole. But it further emphasized a line I am not happy with it. I had fun though, and I am calling it done.

We’ve had two days of glorious spotty rain. Reports say it will continue all week.
Fingers crossed.