Paint Party Friday

I can't believe that it's a whole week since I mentioned the floods here in Aberdeenshire and believe it or not, last night was the worst night of flooding since the rain started over a week ago.

The National Media have now suddenly become aware of the severity of the flooding and thanks to the fantastic voluntary Fubar News team on Facebook, who are providing the masses of video footage for them, everyone now has become aware of what people are dealing with here.

It's wonderful to see and hear about the local community pulling together (other than a few morons that have taken the opportunistic view that an unattended, flooded house is far game for looting) along with the amazing emergency services, local businesses and volunteers that are all doing incredible work to try to minimize what is an horrific situation for so many. 

These floods are the worst on record... EVER!

We are counting our blessings here in this house for sitting high on a hill.

I'm feel slightly frivolous linking up with my little piece of artwork today, when so much is happening but it is Friday and I haven't posted all week... so here it is...

my latest drawing.

Can you tell what it is...?

I decided that after drawing the wolf (click here if you'd like to see him) 

(Wow... I've just seen that I drew him way back in November)
Oh my, how time flies when you're enjoying yourself.

There's lots I would change on this drawing, but I thought I'd show you because I think it's important to show when things go well and when they don't. 

Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

After all it's the journey when creating art isn't it?

That's one of the fascinating things about creating art... you just never know!

I read that there are as few as 3,200 tigers left in the wild.
It's unthinkable that we might lose these magnificent animals in my lifetime!
That would be so tragic.

Unfortunately, the photographs were taken on different days and as you can see there hasn't been a great deal of light. 

But I can assure you the final drawing is on white paper! 

I forgot to mention that we had snow last night and now it's turned to ice.

Just another spanner in the works... It just keeps giving!

So when Mufftypup finally went out for her walk after days of being house-bound due to the wind and rain she wore her  'Adidog' coat (as in Adidas with a difference).

She was very cozy and she was really up for a good workout.

She decided she wanted to head into the woods for lots of mooching and adventures. 

Here's the before photo... 

And here's the after shot...

She's showing her sad face because she knows she's heading into a bath!

But after she had a good warm sitting on the Aga, then the hairdryer and finally into her bed by the wood burner for her afternoon snoozelet.

Is it any wonder I don't get enough hours in my day?

I'm off to check out all the artist linking up to Eva and Kristin's Paint Party Friday

Have a great Friday and I hope you have a wonderful enjoyable weekend!

Thanks for stopping by my place and I hope you'll come back again soon

xoxo