Category Archives: Abstract

Bookmark Giveaway

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Sale ends Monday 10-2-17 @ 11:59 PT

 

Right. Time to announce the giveaway recipients. I had a friend choose 10 Numbers between 1 and 30. And from the comments on those days, I took each name, wrote them on  a slip of paper, and put them in a bowl.

From the bowl I choose ten names. I mixed the names up each time I took one out. Several names were drawn multiple times. Thanks you guys for being regular visitors!

In the sense of fairness, I replaced multiples with new names. Better to spread the bookmark wealth around. LOL.
 

Drum roll please!

 

 

Can you believe that someone recorded
this drum roll to fill 10 HOURS of video??

And the Bookmarks go to:

 

 

If you can read your name…. just kidding,

Laurelle, Val, Judith, Christine B., Christiane,
Carol E., Sea, Dotty, Martine, and Laurie!

Congratulations!

 

 

The bookmarks will be cut from these four paintings. Leave a comment with your first and second choice, and your mailing address. I will delete the address before posting the comment.  I already have some of your addresses from the postcard mailing. If it hasn’t changed, you are good to go!

Thanks again everyone for taking the time to follow along with my daily September posts. Your encouragement, and inspiration is very important to me!

 

 

 

 

 

September 2017 30 Paintings In 30 Days Review

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I had fun with this month’s challenge. Had a rocky start with site crashes, comments going down, and then a road trip interruption. All of that seemed to make the month fly by. I never felt that third week are-we-there-yet dread kick in. Blessings in disguise. Seems to me the start of January’s challenge was rocky too. Maybe I should just expect rocky,

I botched Day 2. I was happy with it. Then the last step. Wreck. It was late, and I needed a replacement to post PDQ. And that is how the first abstract came about. Simple as that. I didn’t plan to do others, but the colors called me.

Most popular days by views: 8, 11, 6, 16, 30, 5, 20, 14, 13,  and 12. In that order. Only three of those are on my favorites list. What do I know?

 

 

Big thank you to Leslie Saeta for hosting yet another fantastic event! My heartfelt thanks to each of you who took the time to visit me here. Who follow my artistic journey. Our conversations mean the world to me. I am so grateful to have found this community, and I cherish every one of you! For your encouragement, your guidance, your inspiration,

 

Thank You!

Giveaway alert! I would love to send out 10 bookmarks. Random drawing from your comments. I am going to have a friend choose 10 numbers between 1 and 30. The names from those days will go into a bowl, and the recipients selected from there.

I am going to cut the bookmarks from these paintings:

 

 

Check back tomorrow!

 

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Sale ends Monday, 10/2/17 @ 11:59pm PT

 

Take a look at the 30 day collages!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 29 Of 30

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Day 29, 6 x 6 acrylic on gessoed 140 lb. Arches cold pressed paper. © 2017 Sheila Delgado

Day 29, 6 x 6 acrylic on gessoed 140 lb. Arches cold pressed paper. © 2017 Sheila Delgado

Today I challenged myself to paint without expectation. I grabbed a recycled sheet of paper, paint and a palette knife. At first I was placing tiny patches of color, calculating even spacing and distribution of each color. Blue, Shiraz, kiwi, natural buff and sun-kissed peach.

I caught myself, and started again. Smearing paint and then scratching into it. Smear, scratch, repeat. I used texture sheets, and scribbled with pastels once the paint was dry. Pink, bright blue, dark blue, orange, white. Still going for loose and “thoughtless”. But hoping to somehow bring it together. So, not carefree and abandoned at that point.

I held up the finished piece for inspection. My first thought was, “Looks like the Easter bunny barfed up his jelly beans.” Best to call it a work in progress.

Day 28. 8 x 8 mixed media on paper. © 2017 Sheila Delgado

Day 28. 8 x 8 mixed media on paper. © 2017 Sheila Delgado

Then I remembered Dotty’s thoughts on Day 28.
“It feels like an optical illusion that lets me see the same scene from multiple perspectives. The one that keeps catching me even though I can’t hold the perspective long enough to explore it is of my looking into the endlessness of the universe to discover that what I thought were planets and stars all these years are in fact flowers.

If Day 28 is the universe, Day 29 is the Big Bang.