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Day Ten

Feather, 3 x 5 in. watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

Just do it (post it). Ugh. Oh well.

I got lost in learning the parts of a feather online. Do you know that feathers have hooklets and barbs? I didn’t. Well, maybe I did in the fifth grade and just didn’t remember.

I’m working on more abstracts. Had fun with that last one. But I thought I better get something posted. I found a bunch of feathers on a lawn last weekend. They were all over. First thought was “bird fight”.

Do you think it hurts when feathers fall out? Or just when they are pulled out?

Lesson learned here:
Paynes grey and raw umber make the perfect warm, whatever-kind-of-bird-this-is, grey.

Happy weekend – YaY!

Day Nine Of Thirty

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#9. 5.5 x 6 in. Watercolor and pen on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

Watercolor applied with a palette knife.
Watercolor pencils and Pitt pen, soft brush.

5, 6, 7, 8! Who Do We Appreciate!

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#5 of 30. 3 x 3 in. mixed media on canvas. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

#6 of 30. 3 x 3 in. mixed media on canvas. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

Mini canvas, gesso, palette knife. Watercolor, Jaune yellow, green-gold, turquoise. Indigo Pitt pen, white paint pen. Texture sheets, fan brush, fingers.

Needs… something. Yellow.

#7 of 30. 3 x 3 in. mixed media on canvas. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

#8 of 30. 3 x 3 in. mixed media on canvas. © 2018 Sheila Delgado.

Painted seven tonight. Three are OK. Two are hideous. (Not shown here) I am cringing just thinking about clicking the post button. But the work is done. Hours put in towards my 10,000. I did have fun. I am really enjoying my new palette! YAY!

Part of the “getting things on the walls” project was this huge canvas. It has had a few lives. The last was partly covered up with ugly, muddy, leftover colors. Finally, I covered the yuck. Didn’t think I had enough Naples yellow so I added some white.

I still don’t know what I want to do with this canvas. And I have been thinking on it for three years, at least. A floral? A Mingus? An abstract landscape? Have to say, I really like it this way. Ha!