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#The100DayProject – #28, #29 And #30

Mingus Day #28. 4 x 6 in. Watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

Back home after four days away. Four days without my laptop, or art supplies. I planned for only two days. Two hectic days. So, catching up again. Maybe that should be my official theme for the project. HA!

Mingus Day #29. 4 x 6 in. Watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

Keeping it simple to accelerate the process. I missed painting! I missed my brushes and colors and work. I missed being in the creative frame of mind. I missed Mingus.

Mingus Day #30. 4 x 6 in. Watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

For the next few pieces, I am going to just let the paint flow. Let it do the work. Or most of it. I am not going to pre-plan or labor for long on an individual painting. I will be heading back to Phoenix for a few more days and I am hoping to get ahead. And stay at least, right on schedule. It’s OK if you are laughing. I am too.

L.Y.A. Side Swaps

I came home to a nice surprise. A LYA postcard. Might be the last. Before I left, I received Deanie Houghtaling’s wonderful card. A warm sepia photograph of a street lamp in Paris. I LOVE the shadows, and the cracks in the wall.

Deanie Houghtaling, Phoenix, AZ.

You can see more of Deanie’s fabulous photos on her Instagram feed. As well as her furry, funny, feline friends. I love Deanie’s work, for the moods she can invoke. Deanie also features Phoenix , and gives interesting tidbits about the area. And if you are a science geek, or just a geek in general, you will find thelabscientist strangely appealing. If you need a laugh, check it out.

PJ Lawrence, Glasgow, KY

PJ’s colorful card caught my eye for obvious reasons. Her painting was created in Oaxaca Mexico during a FEARLESS MEXICO retreat in November. It is part of a triptych. I LOVE the colors, the warmth, the forms. The texture! Beautiful! You can find more of PJ’s terrific work on Instagram.

I have been fortunate to swap with both talented artists for several years now. Thank you Deanie and PJ for sharing your awesome work with me! Such a joy! I can’t wait until next year’s LYA, and hope to swap with you again. Until then, be seeing you on Instagram.

Until tomorrow, and more Mingus,

Blessings and
Best Wishes!

#The100DayProject – #23, #24, #25

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Mingus Day #23. 3.25 x 5.25 in. Watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

Four small WIP’s on the table. Might catch up by tonight. Hoping that tomorrow I can get a head. Or at least get a few started. For these three, I was working from memory. Not referencing a photo, or looking at the mountain. I was working late last night. I found some photos, to show the colors I had in mind.

Today everything is a bright shade of grey. Partly sunny, mostly cloudy. Hazy. Not sure if that is from fire smoke drifting our way, or just the dust in the air. Very windy.

A day when there was green…

Mingus blues. SMD

So often the front range and Mingus are a pair in contrast. One dark and one light. When the light is right, it still surprises me, and forces me to stop and take notice.

Mingus Day #24. 4.5 x 5.25 in. Watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

Pale gold. SMD

Sunsets change everything. The are magical. I tell myself, the colors can’t be real. Yet there they are. A few minutes, and then they are gone. So again, I stop and take notice.

When I am driving in the car. Coming out of a store. Sitting at a traffic light. Mingus is visible. And the chance to steal a peek is never missed.

Mingus Day #25. 4.25 x 5.5 in. Watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

In the pink. SMD

Thanks for stopping by, and sharing the view with me!

#100DaysOfMingus Gallery

A Year In The Life Of Mingus

#100DaysOfMingus – #20

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Mingus Day #20. 5.25 x 12 in. watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

It’s official. I am a week behind. A WEEK. Oh well. No worries. I have two more that are almost complete. No really. I do. But I am feeling I might abandon them, and start fresh.

Neither of these, #20, are finished in my opinion. They both show my limitations. Absolutely no sense of depth or distance. Ugghh!

I thought this piece was too busy. I wanted layers of texture. But I ended up TOO busy. So I started to bury the marks. Then I thought, well, maybe if I simplify the sky, it will calm the marks down.

In the second attempt, I added the few hills in, that are in the gold section (See photo). But it wasn’t working. So I “erased” those too. But now it just looks blah-bland. Or am I just stuck on being too literal?

So posting, and calling it done for now. But I will come back to this. I really do like Mingus in this. Maybe I will cut it out and use it in a collage. LOL.