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Sunny delight. 4 x 6 watercolor postcard. © 2015 Sheila Delgado

This is the last of this series. Maybe I will do a series of series. I am so in awe of the artists who started this challenge with a theme in mind. I always think of something great, after the fact. Like Halloween costumes, or painting titles. Perhaps at the end of the month, I will look back and find, that I really did have a theme all along! It could happen, right?

Sunny Delight, Final. 4 x 6 watercolor postcard. © 2015 Sheila Delgado

I am having fun with the animation of the work in progress, I am glad you are enjoying them as well. I will try to do as many as I can this month.

If you haven’t already, I’d like to invite you to visit my friend Sea Dean’s blog. She has invited all the participants in Leslie’s challenge, to also post their daily paintings on her blog. She is giving prizes! To the most active artist, AND to the most active voter. You can vote for three artists a day. That includes me, of course. Join in the fun!

So much great art being created! Enough to fill the Guggenheim! Do treat yourself and visit Leslie Saeta’s blog today for a look.

YAY! Is anyone else excited that today is the first day of Downton Abbey in the U.S.A.! Everyone in this house is going to be glued to the tube tonight. Including my Dad, believe it or not.

Happy Sun Day Four to all the participants. And happy Sunday to all.

Clouds. 4 x 6 watercolor on Arches cold pressed paper. © 2014 Sheila Delgado

I am so enjoying my Arches paper. I can scrub, and rework and basically erase mistakes. Some of the smaller clouds in this I created by going back in with a damp brush, scrubbing out some of the color. In fact, I had the two large clouds ending at about the same point. I went back and extended the top cloud further into the center.

On its own, this sky-scape my not work as well as the previous two. But I think I finally got the foreground right. And when you see the three together, it makes more sense to have a lot of blue sky in this one.

I would love to hear your opinion. Did I create a sense of distance? I did not use a photo for reference, just my imagination. And memories of the view on various road trips through the desert.

I tried to scan the block with all three of these together, but it is just a tad bigger than my scanner bed. Some of the edge was cut off. I wanted to show this view, because I like how the white space between the pieces came out looking like dirt roads. Don’t ya’ think? I am tempted to go back and erase the seams and join them all together as one landscape. Or maybe just fix the foreground in the first painting.

Scan of Days 11, 12 and 13

Below is a view with spacers between each panel.

Clouds Triptych

I won’t use these for the postcard exchange. I think postcards should be more graphic. I finally had a chance tonight to catch up on viewing the art being created in Leslie’s Challenge. Oh my, really great artists are taking part. It is so much fun to me to look at art. I wish I could win the lotto and buy a piece of art from each participant!

Hope your week is off to a great start! Don’t forget to look up and take notice of the sky and all its glory!