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A Day to Give Thanks

January 2015 Challenge Collage, #jan30in30

Thank you Leslie Saeta for bringing us all together. I am in awe not only of your wonderful art, but of how much you accomplish. I really feel I have grown as an artist, with each of your challenges. With this one especially. I am much more at ease with taking risks, and working through difficulties.

Thank you to those who took time to vote in Sea’s Art Party. Have you looked at the prizes in the giveaway? Don’t forget, voters are eligible!

Cindy, thank you for including me in your artist interviews this month. I appreciate the opportunity to introduce myself to your readers. It was such a pleasure to learn about the amazing artists you featured.

Sea Dean, thank you for creating the fun and fabulous Art Party! I really don’t know how you three manage to paint each day, write blog posts, run these huge month-long events, as well as running a business.

Sandy, thank you for nominating me for the 5 Day Art share on Facebook.

And a SUPER MEGA THANK YOU to everyone who followed my progress this month. Thanks so much for taking the time to comment, I really value your opinions! Thanks for the shares, and +1’s, likes and pins! Thanks to my new blog followers!

Thank you to Sea for my special birthday gift. So gorgeous!

And even though they were not birthday presents, thank you to Sandy and Kathy for the chance to have an original piece of your fabulous art! I am blessed!

Hope I am not forgetting anyone. But the way my mind works, and sometimes doesn’t, ya’ never know.

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I numbered the paintings in the collage, because I would like your opinion. Do you have a favorite? I am prepping postcards for Kat Sloma’s Liberate your Art swap. Below are some of my favorites, but I’d really love to hear what you think!

Friends, Final. 4 x 6 mixed media postcard. © 2015 Sheila Delgado

Green vase. 4 x 5 acrylic on paper. © 2015 Sheila Delgado

Petals and Moonbeams. 5 x 7 acrylic on paper. © 2015 Sheila Delgado

Birds and Bees, Final. 4 x 6 mixed media postcard. © 2015 Sheila Delgado

Watercolor postcard, final. 4 x 6. © 2015 Sheila Delgado

Bouquet. 4 x 6 acrylic on paper. © 2015 Sheila Delgado. #jan30in30, day 22

One last chance to vote at Sea Dean’s Art Party.
Each vote is a chance to win for the voter, and to votee!

1483 artists completed the challenge!
Find links to their work on Leslie Saeta’s blog.

Treat yourself to Cindy Williams artist interviews!

My Pinterest board for this event has grown to almost 1200 pieces of art.

Day 30 Of 30 Paintings In 30 days

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Idle. 4 x 4 acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas. © 2015 Sheila Delgado

Wind blows cold, alone
they stand, branches reach as if
they are holding hands.
S.M.D.

We made it! High fives all around! Yes, that means everyone who took Leslie’s challenge, even if you did not post everyday, or produce a full 30 paintings. Effort counts!

My painting today is another save. Actually I think I started three different times on this canvas. It has been sitting for months in between.

There is a grungy black, mucky mix as the base. I had too much turquoise from a piece I was working on the other day. Can’t waste paint. So I spread it on the canvas with a palette knife. I let it dry a bit, and then made scratch marks. I just now am realizing, I maybe should delineate the trunks that are overlapping.

I started the trunks by dripping paint, for a random placement. Then went back with a brush to add width to them. The branches and trunks wrap around the sides and top.

bbbbbbbbbbbbbbb Trees-wrap

Tomorrow all the participants will post a collage of their work. Today, I would like to share the collections I have from this month. There are also some odds and ends, I’ll show those tomorrow in the collage.

Flower Fields

Oh Lolly

Flowers and Trees

Fantasia

Feme

Bloom

Friends

Two more floral pieces have been started, to complete Fantasia. And I have finished pieces for the last three collections, Feme, bloom and friends. I will share those with you soon.

Hop on over to Sea Dean’s blog and vote, each vote is a chance to win!

Visit Leslie’s site for a look at the artwork created today.

Visit Cindy Williams and read one or more of her artist interviews!

My Pinterest board for this event is bursting with over 1200 pieces of art.

Day 12 Of 30 in 30 – Pinterest and Your Blog

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Bloom. 6 x 6 Mixed media. © 2015 Sheila Delgado. #jan30in30, Day 12

I started this with acrylic on watercolor paper. I dripped a bit of blue acrylic, and then added watercolor washes in shades of orange, red and purple. I thought for a second about starting over, because the red dried in a straight line. But I decided to leave it. This only took a few minutes in the end, and I think it is the first really “loose” piece I have done. I could be wrong. But I am patting myself on the back for resisting the urge to “fix” it.

Bloom, Final. 6 x 6 Mixed media. © 2015 Sheila Delgado

Pinterest Captions

I have noticed that many of us are not using Pinterest pin captions to our best advantage. Maybe it is something you are not really thinking about. But you should be.

I thought I was doing OK with this myself, but if you take a look at my Pinterest Blog Board, you will see I have some major work to do. Oi vey!

Oops, well I guess you will have to watch the video first to see how to do it correctly.

Next take a look at my pinterest board for Leslie’s challenge event. Look closely at the image descriptions. (I am a couple of days behind.)

Can you see the problem? Do the captions answer:

Who?
What?
When?
Where?
Why?
And How?

What does IMG_0000_new tell me about the artist, or the artwork? I am not trying to shame anyone. It’s just that in pinning so many each day, it has become very clear to me. Some of us could really use some help. And I am one of the “us”.

My first inclination, is to add the captions myself, but that just isn’t possible.

I did some searching, and I found a few articles that I think will really help. I know you probably don’t have time to read them this month, but you can bookmark them or print them out. The first one includes a short video that is easy to understand. I promise.

Jessica at Chaos & Love – Thank You! I know you can spare two minutes to watch her video and make your blog and boards better!

For those of you using WordPress, here is some information on using your image settings. Note that the caption box for your wordpress image, is not the “caption” for Pinterest. For those of you on other platforms, I am sure it is much the same.

This post by Nicole at Curio Electro is to the point. She breaks it down really well.

I hope those help, maybe you can let me know in the comments. I still have a TON to learn about blogging and SEO, and social media. If you have anything to add I would love to hear from you! And I am sure others will appreciate it as well!

Treat yourself, visit Leslie’s site for a look at the artwork created today.

Also hop on over to Sea Dean’s blog and vote, each vote is a chance to win prizes!

Over 400 amazing pieces of art so far, on my Pinterest board for this event.

STILL need an art fix?

Visit Cindy Williams and read one of her artist interviews!