Category Archives: Hearts

Day 23 – 30 In 30

Thoughts of you. Watercolor and gouache on Yupo. 4.5 x 6. © 2014 Sheila Delgado

Counting this as done for today. But I think it needs… something. Any thoughts? I think it would make a nice gift card. There is room enough to add (digitally), “Thinking of you”, “You are…always on my mind” or “Happy Valentines”. It is really more red than pink in person, but pink works.

Another possibility for submission to “LOVE SAYINGS: wit & wisdom of romance, courtship, and marriage.”

I have 6 paintings started. Enough to get me to the end of the month. I have three others that are wipe outs. Yupo experiments gone wrong. But I had fun making a mess!

Thanks so much for visiting my blog, and thanks to all who leave comments. I love hearing from you! More 30 In 30 goodness here.

Day 22 – 30 In 30

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Growing Devotion. Mixed media, 4 x 4 gallery wrapped canvas. © 2014 Sheila Delgado

The base color, the pink that you see, is actually a warm mauve. I mixed magenta with a bit of copper. There is a mild sheen to it. This is another possible submission to “LOVE SAYINGS: wit & wisdom of romance, courtship, and marriage.”

The words are from the poem, To His Coy Mistress, by Andrew Marvell. It was one of my favorites, a discovery in my college poetry class. I found a site that suggested you should have Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s get it on” playing while you read this. How times doth change.

Happy Monday everyone! More 30 In 30 goodness here.

Day 19 – 30 in 30

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I have tried for a week, to get ahead. I stayed up later than I should have last night. Painting and playing with color. I am actually ahead a couple of days now. That has never happened before. I was so tempted to show you all the paintings today.

I really like this piece. So much so, that I am going to show it to you two ways. Let me know which is your favorite.

This is how I painted it, using gravity as a tool.

The Sky is Crying. Watercolor and gouache on Yupo. 4.5 x 6 in. © 2014 Sheila Delgado

I left it to dry upside down, when I came back to it, this is what I saw.

Blue Seaweed. Watercolor and gouache on Yupo. 4.5 x 6 in. © 2014 Sheila Delgado

I was trying for more of those little “explosions”. When that didn’t work, I added more blue and let it work its way down.

I also went back and added more of a shadow to yesterdays heart. It is not showing as well in the scan. It shows as a thin line, but the color blends out into the surrounding area nicely.