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Day Nine Of Thirty

#9. 5.5 x 6 in. Watercolor and pen on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

Watercolor applied with a palette knife.
Watercolor pencils and Pitt pen, soft brush.

5, 6, 7, 8! Who Do We Appreciate!

#5 of 30. 3 x 3 in. mixed media on canvas. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

#6 of 30. 3 x 3 in. mixed media on canvas. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

Mini canvas, gesso, palette knife. Watercolor, Jaune yellow, green-gold, turquoise. Indigo Pitt pen, white paint pen. Texture sheets, fan brush, fingers.

Needs… something. Yellow.

#7 of 30. 3 x 3 in. mixed media on canvas. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

#8 of 30. 3 x 3 in. mixed media on canvas. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

Painted seven tonight. Three are OK. Two are hideous. (Not shown here) I am cringing just thinking about clicking the post button. But the work is done. Hours put in towards my 10,000. I did have fun. I am really enjoying my new palette! YAY!

Part of the “getting things on the walls” project was this huge canvas. It has had a few lives. The last was partly covered up with ugly, muddy, leftover colors. Finally, I covered the yuck. Didn’t think I had enough Naples yellow so I added some white.

I still don’t know what I want to do with this canvas. And I have been thinking on it for three years, at least. A floral? A Mingus? An abstract landscape? Have to say, I really like it this way. Ha!

Don’t eat yellow snow.

Family from out-of-town this weekend. Might not post again until next week. Have fun!

#WorldWatercolorMonth #24 – #27

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#24 WWM. 4 x 5 in. watercolor on Strathmore 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

#25 WWM. 4 x 5 in. watercolor on Strathmore 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

The sky in these first two is Winsor & Newton Professional watercolor Cerulean Blue, Series 3. This is the Cerulean I placed in my revamped sketch box. I’m not liking this blue. It seems dull, and a little sad. Maybe it was just me sad, that this color was not the vibrant color I had used on all my Mingus skies.

You might not see a difference here. The fact that there is so much white in the sky, is a sign of how well, it does NOT scan. I scanned these three times. And then spent time in Photoshop trying to get the sky blue to show true. On the paintings, there is very little white in the sky

#26 WWM. 4 x 5 in. watercolor on Strathmore 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

There’s blue sky! Another difference I can see now, is that the Cerulean in the first two, is more sedimentary. You can see the texture of the paper more, because the paint has settled in the valleys. Here, the skies are smooth and clean. And BLUE.

#27 WWM. 4 x 5 in. watercolor on Strathmore 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

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This month has flown by. I am so glad I did not pass up the opportunity to continue daily painting. Painting in a journal made it so much less intimidating. These were “quick” sketches, not full paintings.

I know for a fact, that I will not paint daily next month. My to-do list needs attention before the September 30 in 30 challenge. I do have a few in mind though, that I want to get done. Anyone else planning on doing the September challenge?

I shared this sunrise on Instagram, some of you have already seen it. WOW! It just knocked my socks off again. Ha-ha. I took way too many shots of this. And the first one was the best. How lucky was that.

Enjoy your day! Thanks so much for stopping by!