This is a mess but it's totally ok. 

Story is, I had decided to give up painting when my husband outlined this idea he had about setting up a studio in a spare bedroom. He has been concerned that my life as a workaholic is not healthy and really was excited that I was picking up painting. I spent some time looking through all the tutorials and paintings others have been posting on the FB page and I really think I could do this but I do not want to do another in person painting class, at least not for a long time. 

I started working on the mason jar flower tutorial and then had to be away from home for a few days followed by one stunningly horrible case of food poisoning. I had gotten as far as the leaves and got frustrated with not being able to get them to look like I wanted. 

Since I binged the entire beginning acrylic painting class in a week, I thought the thing to do was to start over and take it slower this time. I went back over the brush stroke video and practiced a bit but it's just more fun to paint a picture so I pulled this back out and finished it today. 

The idea was just to push through and have fun with it. I had a good time doing the purple flowers, iffy on the others and my paint was getting lumpy and I was losing patience by the time I got to the butterfly but the important thing is that it turned out better than I thought it would and I'm encouraged to keep going.