The busted wall... Opinions Please...

I used to call this my wall of shame... then my wall of pain ... then my busted wall....

Picture ones precious mementos, furnishings and belongings crashing into a wall ... fixing it for it to happen again ... to hold your child who through no direct fault of his would swing from manic to depression ... to hold your child from hurting himself and once again breaking his hand from crashing it into the wall ... to see you beautiful dish or ornament inherited from your grand or great grandma come crashing into the wall ... imagine feeling as a total failure as a parent and your wall becomes a wall of shame.... imagine your precious child breaking himself and the wall when decompensating and the wall becomes a wall of pain ... but one day I decided to change it... and called it my busted wall - beautified...

To keep this on the topic for this weight loss community... when I joined OH in 2007 I started painting canvases of OH friends and peeps and sending it or giving it to them at no cost to them whatsoever .. painting is my hobby of all times ... I sketch and I paint and I paint and I sketch even when I don't know I am doing it if there is a pen or a pencil in my hand I am sketching/drawing even on my napkin ... I sit at a meeting and before it is over I sketched all the players ... yup have been drawing/sketching/painting since I could hold a crayon straight LOL ... 

Here is a sample canvas I painted of an OH sista on the journey...
  

and this is a picture of me at the OH Conference this past October about to hand a painted canvas to another OH sista...
 

but not the subject of my thread and opinions are for my busted wall which is my hand painted mural I did overnight back in 2010 ... it was a sleepless long night ... I realized that not matter what the crisis was my child NEVER EVER broke or destroyed one of my paintings .... so I painted the wall of pain .. and my busted wall was no more ... he has been dedicated to his treatment and sessions and the issues of throwing things and crashing himself into the wall have subsided ... still I am the proud mom of this awesome and brilliant young man today ... mental health issues are nothing to be judged and I will stand by mine till the day I die... 

So I stayed up all night and painted the wall of pain that is no more ... I beautified the busted wall by painting this mural over it in 2010 ... it is the wall in my den... the floors have to be redone but is on hold as there is a water problem in this area and wood should never have been used... 
 

but now almost two years later my hands are itching to paint a new mural... I woke up this morning with hummingbirds stuck in my head and a NEED to paint a mural ... I went running this morning early to flush the antsiness to paint a mural away and it is still strong ... I consulted with my family about my artsy fartsy wish to repaint my mural .. of course I will do my very own mural in my head but I have a combo of all these hummingbirds wallpapers I saw online stuck in my head....

Opinions please ... what do you think of a hummingbird mural painted by me on my busted wall.... do you like any of these that I saw online? Of course my mural will be a combination of many.... any other ideas for my busted wall? Opinions/ideas appreciated..

 


 


 


 

another goofy thread ... but I love your opinions/ideas and thank you in advance for them... thanks for allowing me to share and for sharing with me...

 

You continue to facinate me Marty!  What an interesting mind you have!

I absolutely love hummingbirds and think that any, all or  combination would be breathtaking on your wall!

Thank you Sandy ... I am in the process of applying Gesso to the wall right now ... I have all these images in my head and now Phoebeallen's hummingbird's nest on the live cam I have been following is stuck in my head too ... I will share the finished product later ... I will be checking for opinions/ideas as I give myself break and I will tweak as much of them in as I like onto the wall ... 

I love it! My dog and I sit on my front porch all the time and watch the hummingbirds in the bottle brush tree!

I love the third picture with the pink flowers, but I love pink!

You are blessed to have such talent.

 I think they are awesome ... I finished gessoing and one layer ... I think in two to three hours I should be done and sharing my mural ... how awesome you can sit and watch them ... I have been following the recent hatch on phoebeallens.com live webcam...

I have a hummingbird tattoo on my left shoulder and have it foe about 2 yrs. The tattoo artist said they are becoming more popular.

 That must be a beautiful tattoo...  take a pic and share when and if you are up to it... it must be beautiful!

I like the one w the pink. I notice you wear that color a lot. You are very gifted.

 I love the pink too .... will definitely work that color in my mural ... I should be done in 2-3 more hours... or so I hope...

You are amazing!
Hummingbirds are one of my favorites of God's masterpieces. They are amazing...strong, determined, graceful, beautiful...I can see why you like them!!! My favorite is the one with the pink flowers. But they are all beautiful.
Also..I am so sorry to hear of your child's pain. I will pray for the both of you.