Mother Giraffe and her Baby Painting

It's been a very strange week, but one thing that has kept me sane (or as near to sane as I can be) has been completing this watercolour painting below... of a Mother Giraffe and her Baby.

I've intermittently been watching the live webcam footage of April, the giraffe who is about to give birth any day now, in the USA. 

She has quite a fan club and if you'd like to visit... click on the options below:

YouTube, Animal Adventure Park, or Facebook.

I'm trying to set up my Etsy shop once again and these cuties will hopefully appear in time for Mother's Day. 

If you'd like to see the painting from the beginning of the process, then click below:

Giraffe and Baby Painting

I'll be linking up to WOYWW (if they'll allow me, because I haven't done that for quite some time)

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And because it's Friday I'll be joining in with the Paint Party Friday

Thanks for your visit and I would love for you to leave a comment so that I know you've been here.

Enjoy your weekend and I hope to see you again soon

p.s. For those that know Muffin hasn't been well and loosing lots of weight... the latest news is that I've just left her at the vet's once again for her scans, x-rays and investigations.
Can I ask that you use all your positive energy, prayers and thoughts to help Muffin recover.
Thank you

April The Giraffe with her baby... PPF

Can you believe it? 

There's not a feather in site in my painting this week.

I decided to give the current trend of bird paintings a little rest for this week.

Something else has caught my eye and if you live in the US, you may well be aware of April the Giraffe who has a live webcam in her pen, in readiness for her imminent birth. 

She's already given birth to four babies...so she seems to know what she's doing.

There is quite a few people watching now and some have even been watching since day one of the transmission. There's quite a community of people watching whilst chatting, but as with these things there's always the trolls trying to spoil it, but you can easily switch off the comments. 

So I thought I'd give April some attention myself and try to paint her with her baby.

Oh yes, and there's to be a naming competition. 

I'd prefer to see her out in the wild, but April was actually born in the captivity.

She even kissed her keeper this morning.

There's still such a long way to go on this painting, but at least it's allowing me painting time, because it's been quite an emotional week and I didn't want to paint initially.

We had to say another goodbye to a family member 

(I may do a separate post about her... because she was an exceptional and inspiring woman who was greatly loved and will be missed. 

She was quite a character too) 

 I've also been worried about Muffin.

She's lost quite a lot of weight so we're keeping a close eye on her... not that we don't normally anyway.

Here's a little clip of her walking through the woods... where you wouldn't think anything was wrong or that she was 13 years old!

She's got quite a swish on her toosh hasn't she? 

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I hope you have a happy day and great weekend.

Thanks for your visit once again and I hope to see you again soon.