29 of 30 Another Banded Tulip (Broken Shell Series)

A Rose Is A Rose (Banded Tulip)

5" X 7"

Watercolor

$85
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This painting isn't quite finished, but I'm in a workshop this week requiring driving back and forth and hour and a half, which makes for a long day. I also had the opportunity to attend a reception last night on a Royal Navy ship, so I wasn't even able to work on it last night.

The shell in this painting is below:

I forgot to add a coin to these photos give you a size reference; it is about 2" long and the one on the right in the bottom photo.

I'll be a bit late posting on the last day, since that painting is not even halfway at this point. At least I have no Saturday morning obligations! I cannot wait to put my collage together and see all thirty as a group. It's my favorite day to go look at other artists work.

This month has been thrilling. I've done at least ten paintings that I will have a hard time parting with.  I've found many artists to follow on Facebook and Instagram. I've picked up some followers of my own too! I love how the art world just keeps expanding in my social media outlets!

26 of 30 Banded Tulip (Broken Shell Series)

Tiny Waist (Banded Tulip)

4" X 6"

Watercolor

$75

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It's amazing to me that this shell is intact. The spindle-y center is so thin! Yet, here it is with an entire spire!

At first, I though that this could be one of the rare juonia shells, but the dot coloration is too irregular. Plus, they aren't really supposed to be in the Keys. The coloration is similar to the alphabet cone, but the shape is wrong. It might not be a banded tulip at all, but that seemed most likely.

17 of 30 Banded Tulip (Broken Shell Series)

Never Too Old to Blush (Banded Tulip Shell)

4" X 6"

Watercolor

$75

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When the spire of a shell is broken off, the architecture within looks like a partially opened flower bud. This shell is sun-bleached and its lines nearly faded away, but it may have been a banded tulip shell, though it seems a bit sturdier, or thicker than the typical tulip.

I loved how the light in my reference photo caught the edges in this photo while bringing a glow to the shell from within, hence the title.

10 of 30 Tulip Shell

Brown is Beautiful (Tulip)

5" X 7"

Watercolor

$85

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For Day 10 of the thirty paintings in thirty days challenge, I decided to do something a bit different as far as the blogpost goes. I took progress photos as I went along and put them into a "video." (Really, just a slideshow/digital flipbook). Here is also a collage of the progress photos individually.

Note to self: Do not wear a hot pink shirt if you plan to take progress photos while you paint. :(

The shell I painted from doesn't actually have all the colors that I painted (at least to my eye), but it did have a warm glow that I wanted to capture. Plus, it is fun to paint neutrals without using neutral paints. (Thanks Jane Angelhart for teaching me how to do that!)

Larger photo of finished painting (pre-signing...oops):