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Day 5 ~ Birthday Bouquet

Named this Birthday Bouquet because today is my birthday. Keep it simple silly.

Can you tell these are ranunculus? I like ranunculus better than roses. The petals seem unending. I know I will offend some, but to me roses are overdone. People always think to give roses. But they never think to give ranunculus. Or at least, I have never received a bouquet of ranunculus.

Isn’t Google great: Ranunculus generally start to appear at the Market in November/December and are at their best from January, with their main season usually coming to an end in May/June.

Learn something new every day.

Happy Day to one and all!

My Pinterest board for this challenge keeps growing.
Makes me happy just to see so much pretty art!
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Day Two ~ And A Short Tale

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Day 2, 1.2016. Three buds, 8 x 8 Mixed media on paper. © 2016 Sheila Delgado. sheiladelgado.com

“I am on a roll!” Sheila said out loud. “Too bad it is going downhill and gaining speed fast.”

She had struggled all day. Painting, reworking. Ripping the failures into shreds. She worked through lunch. Skipped supper too. But the harder she worked. The worse the paintings became.

She decided it was time to stop. Time to admit defeat, for tonight anyway. She would face tomorrow just as Scarlet had – with hope and determination. Tomorrow is another day, after all!

Happy New 30 in 30!

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Thinking of Spring. 8 x 8 Mixed media. © 2016 Sheila Delgado

Happy New Year y’all! Welcome to another 30 in 30 challenge! I have looked forward to this since the end of September. O.K., I think it took me a month to recover from that challenge enough to think about doing it all over again!

But I have looked forward to January 2016 since December of 2015! DOWNTON! So while I might start to look forward to the end of the painting challenge at some point, I will also be simultaneously hoping that January goes on forever!

I have several ideas for a theme. Had. Have had. I can’t decide, and I am not really sure if I will have theme this time. I did not have a chance to prep in advance. But I did start painting a few days ago. I tried a few landscapes, as well as a few abstracts. Nothing very post worthy, so I thought it might be a good idea to stick with a subject I know.

I painted most of this with my fingers. Started with abstract yellow shapes, then green. Roughed in a pot. Spread colors around in the background. I used a brush to shape the pot. Also to lay down the purple base in the foreground, and the dark centers of the blooms. I added a last layer of a creamy white to the background and defined shapes with a pen.

Whew! Number one is done!