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Day 6 – 30-Day Creative Gathering

Day 6, 2019 C.G., 8 x 8, watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold-pressed paper. © 2019 Sheila Delgado.

Everything in this is too even Steven. The sky is pretty even. The stems are pretty even. And the blooms. They are definitely even.

I think I will go back and add two or three smaller blooms, lower than the others. I played with this idea in Photoshop. Much better. What do you think?

Day 6, mock-up, 2019 C.G., 8 x 8, watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold-pressed paper. © 2019 Sheila Delgado.

The “yellow” that shows in the stems is actually green gold. It is almost neon at it’s lightest. In person it does appear very light green, not the yellow seen here. I have Winsor & Newton, the video shows Daniel Smith. I’d like to try that one next as it appears to be less neon bright.

I used watercolor crayon over the stems/grass area. Splattered paint, of course. I drew on the blooms with a watercolor crayon. Didn’t quite work as well as I thought it would. I went over those marks with a wet brush to move the paint around. Here is a close up to show some of the fun details.

Day 6, close-up, 2019 C.G., 8 x 8, watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold-pressed paper. © 2019 Sheila Delgado.

Day 5 – 2019 Creative Gathering

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Day 5, 2019 C.G., 8 x 8, watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold-pressed paper. © 2019 Sheila Delgado.

“How right it is to love flowers
and the greenery of pines
and ivy and hawthorn hedges;
they have been with us from the very beginning.”

― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

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Day 4 – 2019 Creative Gathering

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Day 4, 2019 C.G., 8 x 8, watercolor, collage, acrylic & pen on Arches 140 lb. cold-pressed paper. © 2019 Sheila Delgado.

This was a fun one. It came together quickly. I started with a stencil and acrylic paint. Next, I spattered more acrylic. I used matte medium and paper from my book of Shubert music. A gift from my good friend Christiane Drieling.

A wash of watercolor on the table, then on to the blooms. I pulled out a Liquitex paint pen. SO fun to work with. It has a chiseled tip, you can make thin or thick lines. I added layers of watercolor. More pen, more watercolor. The paint pen is surprisingly translucent. Top right you can still see some of the music notes.

The red is actually shiraz/deep magenta watercolor. It looks more of burnt deep orange in person. And it scanned as red. Some areas of that were too heavy, so I went back in with a wet brush and lifted the color, or diluted it. I like the messy look of that.

I used a Crayola purple gel pen to define the vase and horizontal line. Thank you Nelvia! And I finished with a white pencil, scribbled everywhere. Fun 🙂