Do it My Way

Went to an art class last night.  In the end I was thrilled with my painting.  So was AJ, he thought it was amazing when I came home.  We hung it in the sunroom so we can look at it.  I was so pleased!

The instructor said there was always one rogue in the group....I guess I was it last night.  I didn't end up with a round sun, I didn't want to do elephants and I didn't listen to her in the end!  But, she liked it.

I genuinely started out listening and following along....  I had started my painting 'tall' and I started with the round yellow sun.  I tried, and tried, as she said to blend the white into the yellow, then with the orange, and a bit of red....  My painting looked horrible.  I just couldn't get it to work, everyone else had these amazing yellow suns blending into orange.  She told me to let it dry and start again.  I went to the washroom, came back, and thought screw it, I'm going to just do it my way and listen to what the painting wants to be instead. I turned the painting sideways, and took a napkin and wiped it dry.  As I did I could see it looked better, my yellow was now on the left and the red on the right blended well.  As the instructor was teaching to do the tree etc, I continued with my background.  I was really getting into it as it was coming out. FINALLY!!!  Then I did my jaguar in the tree instead of just the tree first and did the tree around the jaguar.   YES!  It worked.  The instructor, and cafe owner (it was being run in a coffee shop) all came around and were stunned with the painting.  Especially since they could see how stressed I had been trying to do the round sun.  Others liked it too.  😹

Today we went down to Vaughan to go to Longo's and then to the Low Carb Store in Markham.  Just wanted to get a few things that I can't get at ONS as they don't sell these things.  Sometimes I just want something a bit different.  I know it's a bit higher in carbs, I'm ok with it as I don't have it often, or I have less. Today I got some cookies that were delicious and a nice change.

Jax got to go to doggy daycare while we went.  He's tuckered.

Tonight for dinner I tried something different too.  We had portabello mushrooms with ground beef on top.  Then a mix of red peppers/swiss chard/cauliflower cooked up.  I wanted some /a bit of sauce with the veg.  Hard to keep low carb as I wanted to have the cookies (listed above) for dessert.  I looked in the fridge and saw.... some salad dressing (Caesar) Put that over the cooked veg, mixed, topped it on the meat.  Turned out wonderful!

Happy with the results of today.