Category Archives: Painting Challenge

Spoonflower 2023 Calendar Wall Hanging

Serene Green. 2023 Wall Calendar, Spoonflower. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

This challenge was so much fun. As you can see, I recycled one of my paintings from this month. I used different patterns, to be sure the dates were legible. The full leaf is larger, to fill the space. I also added a digital border, outline, to the vase. To give it a crisp look. I left the planting raw, with rough edges and pencil marks.

Voting is now open, There are fewer entries this week. Lots of terrific designs, though. Thanks so much for taking the time! 🙏😄

This will be available as a wall hanging, and on a tea towel.

Serene Green. 2023 Wall Hanging Calendar, Spoonflower. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

Serene Green. 2023 Calendar, Tea Towel, Spoonflower. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

Spoonflower provides a template for the designers. I created a frame, to cover the areas that are out of bounds. It helped me to see only the area I had to work with. Gave me a “clean” canvas.

Fika Fine Close Up. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

Fika Fine placed at 522 out of 770, with 20 votes. Thank you! I’m so grateful to you. 🙂

Days 21 Through 25 of The 30-Day Creative Gathering

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Day 21, CG 9 22. 8 x 8 inch. Watercolor, acrylics, & digital collage. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

I had so much fun with this series. I painted first, with acrylics and/or watercolor. The first two have pots that were collaged by hand. I continued in Photoshop, adding collage with digital patterns. Some of which are just copies of paper patterns I have.

You might ask, “why not just collage the paper by hand?”. And that is a fair question. In photoshop I can change the color, stretch or shrink the pattern, change the direction. I can try everything. I can also change my mind in the final stages and rework the individual pieces.

I hope you enjoy these as much as I do. We are in the final week of the gathering now, and I have started a new series. But I will be revisiting this style in months to come.

Day 22, CG 9 22. 8 x 8 inch. Watercolor, acrylics, & digital collage. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

Day 23, CG 9 22. 8 x 8 inch. Watercolor, acrylics, & digital collage. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

Day 24, CG 9 22. 8 x 8 inch. Watercolor, acrylics, & digital collage. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

Day 25, CG 9 22. 8 x 8 inch. Watercolor, acrylics, & digital collage. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul.
Linda Solegato

Days 15 Through 20 Of the September 30-Day Gathering

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Day 20, CG 9 22. 8 x 8 inch. Watercolor, digital collage. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

I’m having fun with these. The first four were painted in acrylic or watercolor. And the patterns were added digitally in Photoshop. Not as easy as it might sound. On the vase above it took three times longer to add the collage and effects, than it did to paint it.

Day 19, CG 9 22. 8 x 8 inch. Watercolor, digital collage. © 2022 Sheila Delgado. — Day 19, CG 9 22. 4 x 6 inch. Watercolor, digital collage. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

Day 18, CG 9 22. 8 x 8 inch. Watercolor, digital collage. © 2022 Sheila Delgado. — Day 18, CG 9 22. 4 x 6 inch. Watercolor, digital collage. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

Day 17, CG 9 22. 8 x 8 inch. Watercolor, digital collage. © 2022 Sheila Delgado. — Day 17, CG 9 22. 4 x 6 inch. Watercolor, digital collage. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

For day 16, I shared a work in progress. I will be sharing the final pattern soon. Here I created a plaid, which will act as the background for the rest of the design. The theme is Fika, Swedish coffee break. But it is so much more than that. Fika is all about bonding with friends and family. It can take place several times a day.

I knew that many would use the colors of the Swedish flag, And I wanted to do something different. I tried adding a weave texture, but as you can see, it darkens the colors too much.

Day 16, CG 9 22. Surface pattern © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

This landscape is watercolor, acrylics and collage. And splatter of course. 😆

Day 15, CG 9 22. 8 x 8 inch. Mixed media, collage. © 2022 Sheila Delgado. — Day 15, CG 9 22. 4 x 6 inch. Mixed media, collage. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

Here in the valley we are enjoying a rainy, dark day. It’s been raining off and on since about 11 pm. It is cool, and the rain is not evaporating. This is a good long soak.