Finally coming up for air ... phew!!!

 .... and I will tell the tale in pictures... on a rainy day I embraced my first love ... my canvas and my palette ... and I started the day by painting a portrait of a cyber friend's grandma (who I met on OH) as a gift as she approaches her 90th years young b-day.... my friend shared a picture in which she was standing with several other people ... and I painted her portrait from there just eyeballing her on my pc screen and painting the image in my head ... this is a rough draft still...  I also painted one of her DD and her bird and shared it with her also...

 

with the rain and two canvas drying before I could apply more layers I went off to Zumba toning/zumba fitness both modalities at the community clinic where my DD is the instructor and had an awesome workout... 

I came back home and the rain started again ... dark as night and pelting down and cooling a bit ... much needed...  I decided then to paint a hummingbird on canvas for my OH friend MsVee .... I hope she is pleasantly surprised and likes it ... it is looking like this ... of course I crashed in my den with my palette ... I make no mess at all when I paint on canvas unlike gessoing an entire wall...
 

 


Then my DH decided it was time to eat something and decided to do takeout from the Caribbean Restaurant ... I called to find out what the soup of the day was and it was my all time favorite Caribbean Chicken feet soup with drumsticks added WOOT ... I died and went to heaven... I LOVE LOVE LOVE that stuff ... I felt like my nana was alive again and made a pot of sopa de patas de pollo and I ate my soup and twiddled my toes ... DELISH... and SPICY...  Chicken feet soup and fish head soup are my all time faves ... hey ... I am culturally diverse like that LOL grew up in the deep country in another country ...
 

On Friday I meant to post my empowerment collage but I was still a bit shaken from an incident with a call in the wee hours of the morning that shook me up so bad I was a nervous wreck ...  I wore my Levi's skirt in a size 1 that I wore at my lowest weight from surgery and wore seamlessly with the same fit 5 years and 5 months after .... maintaining for life ... one day at a time... one choice at a time...
 

and I made my Empowerment Comparison Collage with the same skirt...
 

and now I am all washed and showered and clean and sporting a hoochie mama  dress as we are heading out to enjoy a few hours of fun with friends from my Oldies Keeping the Flame Going Couples group that we belong to.... I was going to wear a long dress but NOPE ... rather be comfortable ... I even have an air conditioned back too LOL .... I will he out having fun with my DD and friends wearing this that I have on now...

 

I am having fun on my journey ... with every lemon life hands me I am making lemonade and when lemonade does not work I made a virgin SF margarita on the rock ... because I am B.A.D. = BlessedAnd Delivered!!!

Thank you for allowing me to share this goofy post...  Painting is my first love indeed ..... my arsenal of love....
 

 Love your work and to look great. congrats/

 Thank you! I am trying to wrap of this canvas of two sisters who are friends of my DD ..  hope I do the justice LOL....  I just paint/draw/sketch because I love to ... then I give it away or just sta**** if I don't like my creation and I gesso-it out and reuse the canvas to paint something else ... I have a room full of unfinished art and a sewing room full of un-started projects LOL ... I am either painting/sewing/making dolls or reading in my leisure moments ... I also paint when my spirit is troubled or I am worried  ... it soothes me and before you know it ... I am okay....

 I am in LOVE with your hummingbird paintings!!!

 Thank you! WOOT and I have tons of paint and tons of canvas and tons of loving to paint so I will paint and I was wanting to paint another hummingbird --- now I have an awesome excuse to paint another YAY! .... I will paint you a canvas with a beautiful hummingbird and post it and if you like it it would be my pleasure to send it off to you -- no costs and no strings attached .... I love love love love having an excuse to paint.... I will finish setting up this kittie castle (2 stories) for my beautiful ferrets and will get right on it .... thank you for allowing me to share...

I painted and posted a canvas of a hummingbird I painted for you just because I wanted to... I will fini**** up and send it to you if you pm me where to .... I had such fun doing it ... Tonight I will work on a watercolor and also on this awesome swan that I painted for another OH sista but i**** not coming out to my liking so I had to set it aside for a bit ... now I know the exact washes I am going to use on it to make it look different...

   I'm completely flattered!  I will go look at it right now, and I'm sure I will love it!  I love hummingbird anything!