Category Archives: Gouache

Postcard Play, Odds and Ends

10 minute postcard #1, 4 x 6 watercolor. © 2017 Sheila Delgado

Caught my second wind at 11:30 pm. Truth be told it was my first wind. Pulled out the left over paints I have on dishes, and in bowls. I have missed my “colors”. Thought about doing bouquets, but hey, it was almost midnight. So a single bloom on a deep background won out.

Happy little accident in card one. Do you see it? Indigo ran amuck.

10 minute postcard #2, 4 x 6 watercolor. © 2017 Sheila Delgado

Feel so much better now that I painted. Caught up on some “work” reading today. Found some glitches I had to fix in my Society6 shop. Still some to address. Amazing how long the “little” things can take! The server will be down for a few hours tonight. The internet company is upgrading or some such. So my apologies in advance if you had a hard time reaching this site.

I found that I had not posted these photos of our last snow. About two weeks ago now. Maybe three. I love how you can see the mounds of earth that formed eons ago. Those are not always visible. Both of these were taken on the same day, within a 20 minute time span.

Beautiful Mingus.

Mingus View

More catching up, I finished this project last week. I have been working on a design assignment, and fell behind on posting. Take a look at my new “Inspiration board”. There will be a larger board on the wall next to this.

Ahhh… art on the wall!

Remember those cork trivets? Hung them with Command strips.

Inspiration-2

It’s here!! The LYA swap begins soon! Kat posted more envelope art. Really cool, what everyone has been up to. Click the image to visit Kat’s site. Next week art will arrive!

http://kateyestudio.com/2017/03/last-of-the-mail-art.html

Day 19 Of 30

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Red Sunset. 4.25 x 8 in. watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2017 Sheila Delgado

Painted this today. My second try. I am happy with it. Wish all the clouds had turned out the same hue. Oh well. I learned a lot from the first attempt. And also from editing this in Photoshop. Gotta love learning!!

Below is yesterday’s. Blech! The clouds look dirty, as do the hills. I could not get the colors adjusted correctly, so I “Photoshopped” this by adding a layer of red over the hills. That still was not working, so I added low percentage of blue over that. Both layers were not at full opacity, so the painting remained visible. I used a brush tool, and you can see above the peak on the left, that I went over the same area twice, making the blue visible. That was a mistake, but I kind of like it.

Red Sunset l . 4.25 x 8 in. watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2017 Sheila Delgado

This is the sunset view I wanted to recreate. The photo does not do justice to the glowing light.

Red Sunset Hills. SMD

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Day 14 Of 30

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Lavender Dreams. 6 x 6 in. watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2017 Sheila Delgado

Another glorious sunset. And my attempt to capture it. I can say I had fun working on this. And it came quickly. Still, there are several things I’d change if I could.

The wash in the sky is far too light, and the clouds far too dark. The wash actually looks deeper in person, and the moon does stand out a bit more. When I started with the clouds, the colors were much too light, and I just overcompensated.

The pink on the top cloud was drying too dark, I added more white gouache to the mix, and you can see the result.

My first photo of the sun setting, I thought “WOW! Look at that!”