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Day 23 – Palms

Sometimes less is more. And sometimes more is what it takes. This is another of the abstracts I worked on a couple of weeks ago. I started playing, to see if I could create shapes with the palette knife. What the heck right?

Day 23 , Palms, before. 4 x 4 in. acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas. © 2017 Sheila Delgado

I need the practice if I am ever going to get better. And I can always paint over it, again. You can see how this started. There are two slides. I liked it with just the slim ground line. Then I didn’t. I added more indigo, and then some white and dusty rose to soften the area. Set it aside.

Purple Cactus Plant. 7 x 10 watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2016 Sheila Delgado

Came back to it, and decided I wanted more color in the sky area. I really like that mix of peachy pink, you might remember from earlier challenges.

I am really happy with how the trunks turned out. Pure luck that!

I am on the road to San Diego today. Posts and art are ready to go, but I will not be visiting blogs or pinning to the board for a week. I will catch up when I return. I am going to miss seeing the artworks!

Have fun everyone, I know you can do it! Thanks so much for following my progress, and for your generous comments. God Bless!

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree
it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
Philip Sidney

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Day 23- Fortuitous Tulips

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Tulips. 6 x 6 watercolor on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed paper. © 2016 Sheila Delgado

WOW! After two bad, I mean REALLY bad right-into-the-round-file pieces… this! Well thank goodness. Meant I could finally go to bed!

I started with watercolor pencil, and clean water splattered on the paper. Towards the end I was tempted to add watercolor pencil to bring out leaf shapes, but I decided to forgo the chance of botching it! I thought my stems looked a bit too beefy, but I like the overall look of this. I like the way the colors mixed, and there are some interesting blooms as well.

Hallelujah AMEN!

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Day 24

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One more postcard for the LYA swap. I had lots of fun painting these flowers. Thanks to my Robert Simmons 3/8″ Angle Shader brush. I purchased that and a Winsor Newton #8 round a couple of months ago. I bought from different lines to try them out. I really like them both. They hold their shape well and hold water nicely. Seems like I can paint forever on one load. They have a nice feel to them as well.

Day 23 Revised

I think I have finished yesterday’s flowers. Fixed. They are better. I added some rust to help define them. May have missed the mark. Here is a look at the revisions and a slide show close-up of the flowers.