Tag Archives: Leslie Saeta September 2014 30 in 30 challenge

Day 25 – 30 in 30

Whew, we are over the hump, and comin’ round the bend. I have to admit I am glad we are almost there. I have had a high ratio of good paintings to bad, but I am not sure how long I can keep that up! ;-.)

For today, I worked on an 8 x 8 canvas panel. I took my cue for an artist I admire, Sandrine Pelissier. She does amazing large-scale work, and her floral arrangements are so fun and cheerful. I know part of the reason I love them so much, is all the pattern details she adds to them.

Icky Banana. Mixed media, 8 x 8 canvas panel. © 2014 Sheila Delgado

I had too much fun on this. It is not a one day painting. I prepped the panel with the purple a couple of days ago. Cool found tool – I used a nail head to “stamp” the circles on the table.

Only a few days left to enjoy the gallery on Leslie’s Blog.

Day 24 – 30 In 30

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Red and Purple. Gouache on Yupo. 4.5 x 6 © 2014 Sheila Delgado

This is making me hungry for a slice of blueberry pie. With a small dollop of vanilla ice cream on top. I am going to count this done, but I think it is still a work in progress. Well, the painting IS done.

The design options still need work. I can turn it in to a repeating pattern, use it in my Zazzle shop, or?

I played with the idea of adding hearts. I may add a fringed border to these. Still thinking on that.

Red and Purple with hearts. Gouache on Yupo. 4.5 x 6 © 2014 Sheila Delgado

I painted the hearts on watercolor paper, added pen details and then trimmed them in white. That just was blah against the white of the background so I tried yellow to warm it up a bit.

This may be the last “Love” themed piece I do during the challenge. I have enough now to choose from for submission to “LOVE SAYINGS: wit & wisdom of romance, courtship, and marriage.”

Tomorrow I will show you them all. You can tell me which ones you think are best. Have a super day. More 30 In 30 artwork on display here.

Day 23 – 30 In 30

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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.