AFTER SEVERAL FAILS ... A ROUGH DRAFT OF MY BUSTED WALL...

 THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR AWESOME INPUT ON MY BUSTED WALL THREAD THAT I SHARED YESTERDAY.... YIKES I WAS UP ALL NIGHT AND CAME UP FOR AIR WHEN MY DOORBELL RANG AND IT WAS MY RUNNING BUDDIES ... AT 4:00 a.m. I was up all day all night... because I had this itch to re-paint my busted wall...

I painted ..gessoed ...re-painted and gessoed again... by the time I thought I had a rough draft I could work with it my runner friends were telling me I had paint all over .... .. with no sleep and still tons of energy... I was a total mess ...can someone please tell me how I got more paint on me than on the wall ... paint on my tooth? seriously???? ... 

This is the rough draft of my busted wall I shared with you on yesterday and you were so kind to encourage and support this goofy old sista on the journey ... it still needs tons of work .. I am not doing justice to the hummingbirds but then my forte is painting people ... I gessoed out the upper stem to the flower on the top (all the flowers are unfinished) and now where I thought it was too busy something seems to be amiss...

view 1 of rough draft that I am going to work with and fine tune and gesso out and re-fix

 
 
view 2 as the wall is wide and continues...
 

several FAILS...

fail 2

 


fail 1

 

Thanks for allowing me to share .. after trying to unpaint myself I wound up with a splitting headache ... which I shall try to sleep off ... but the darn wall keeps calling me ... and I still have that itch to paint what is in my head and I am not yet seeing on the wall.... The hummingbirds and the wall are in total rough draft and unfinished ... 

Thanks for allowing me to share this goofy thread.... to keep it on topic I shared with you my busted wall ... and me picking up my brushes and my canvas and my artist acrylics instead of a fork and rocking my awesome hobby of painting on my walk away from morbid obesity ... one day at a time... one choice at a time...

 This is truly beautiful. You have a gift. I look forward to seeing the end result. Good luck!

 Thank you... after being up all night I crashed with a headache ... then got up ... went downstairs to check on the wall and decided to add a few more hummingbirds ... it is looking like this now... still rough draft ...unfinished....

Love it!  Wish I had a wall like yours

 Thank you beautiful ... sista you DO NOT want that wall... not if you have read the history behind it LOL... hey I even made my empowerment collage today using my wall ... I added a few more hummingbirds ... can you tell?

I love it!

Thank you beautiful!!!! I tweak the birdies again and am thinking of adding more... I am about to post my empowerment collage in front of the new half done wall...

Beautiful!! Just like you!! What talent you have!! God is good isn't he?? Keep up the great stories, threads, etc. Martita.. You keep so many of us going myself included.. I have hit a low point in my life myself right now and am trying hard to deal with a 30# gain before I can even consider having a panni, etc.  So say a prayer for me will ya??? I do for all my friends on OH ! Take good care, beautiful work!!! I love hummingbirds and flowers!!! (both pretty and petite unlike moi!!!) Molly:)

 Awwwwwwwww thank you Molly.... I just updated the thread and posted a new one.... 

Hang in there my beautiful sista ... you CAN get those extra pounds off ... journal your food ... up your fluids.... goodbye to refined carbs but you know what to do ... I do want to share with you though the new Sentao Zumba routine where you can do it at home and sitting for low impact or impaired mobility it is a plus ... I do Sentao at home so my DH can get a good workout out with me ... and I love it ... I will send you a few links if you are interested ... you can play it on youtube and just follow the routine ... moving does help ... I moved so much over the weekend painting the mural I dropped a couple pound without even trying... hopefully they came of my rear LOL