What's Been Happening ...

You would think that after the magic beach break we had

 I would come home mentally and physically refreshed

  after all I am one of those mentally hyperactive types at the best of times

 and other than walking on the beach, and swimming

  I was horizontal for the better part of every day

 but instead of coming home like an energizer bunny on steroids

 I came home a touch subdued which was a bit puzzling at the time

  I put it down to missing the Wonder mutt and all that horribleness 

 but it turns out I was busy being a human petri dish and was incubating an epic flu

I didn't get the pretty flu either... you know where you sort of lounge around feeling a bit off

oh no I got the truly disgusting whole shebang

for a time I seriously considered whether I had some serious ebola type bug

though that may be due to the fact that we binge watched Helix on holiday

so my mind was on worse case scenarios big time after watching that show

and yes I can be that psycho and dramatic

after all a little light hypochondria isn't unexpected after the last 18 months

I even had man flu moments where I think I may have actually groaned out loud

 and courtesy of having a butt load of lymph nodes removed and zapped by radiation

I now get a rash all over lefty and the left hand side of my torso as the lymph nodes that are there can't work hard enough to clear all the crap which is a whole new joy

we are talking a rash that made me look like I have walked into a ketchup fight

or perhaps am an extra in a Quentin Tarantino movie... it is quite something to see

So I promptly went to bed and slept away the better part of a week

while the rash appeared and generated an ungodly amount of heat

I swear I could have been rented out as a snow melter, 

which I know lots of you could do with at the moment

I could have just swanned through those drifts and with a flash of what remains of lefty

those pesky snow drifts would have melted away in seconds... like a superpower

but with an awesome amount of sleep I started to recover nicely

and managed to get in and do this pen drawing of the perfume Sinus got me for Christmas

it had started as a watercolour but I learned from my lesson during treatment

I know better than to attempt to use watercolour in bed so I finished it off with a ballpoint pen

it was perfectly therapeutic working in pen

and I quite like the effect of blending watercolour with ballpoint

plus I preserved the new white duvet cover which we have on the bed

well white with one or two little teeny tiny pen marks... adds to the charm of it I am sure

So I am now firing on all cylinders and back in the studio and working on lots of fun projects

some I of which I can happily share like this illustration for Delicious Skin

which is a skin care that smells like chocolate... seriously... it is amazing

and I have been in a frenzy of drawing, sketching and painting

including that blue Elie Saab Resort Collection bottle that is just crying out to be painted

so I am going to leave you there and get back to it

Happy painting all ...xx