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30-Day Creative Challenge, Week Two

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

I know. Too much sky. I was working on clouds further up, but they bombed. So I washed over it. You can see a hint of the jagged shapes if you go looking for them. Before the wash dried, I took a tissue to the wet and created soft, almost invisible cloud shapes. The shapes were more pronounced while the paint was wet. But I am happy with them.

I had in mind the first painting I did like these. That was in a 2016 painting challenged. WOW! Doesn’t feel that long ago. It is one of my favorites. It was loose and abstracted. I keep trying to get back to that. And I keep failing. LOL 🙂

It started raining while I was working. That influenced the colors, and I think helped loosen it up a bit. Before I splattered paint, I splattered water. I knew the paint would flow when it hit the wet areas.

Tried it as a 4 x 6 postcard. It may work better with less sky. What do you think?

Day 8, postcard mock-up. © 2019 Sheila Delgado.
Day 8, postcard mock-up. © 2019 Sheila Delgado.

Day 6 – 30-Day Creative Gathering

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