Diamond Painting: The Second Painting

As the first went so well and the Temu package was taking so long to arrive, I was helpless to resist! The pang of a new ADHD hyperfocus addiction was so loud I hardly noticed that I'd already hit pay on Amazon for another diamond painting kit. Anyone else who also gets these gut-gripping new addictions to things understand that I was helpless, my actions were beyond me.

I did this painting with the cheap pink pen and wax I'd kept from the first kit. I hardly got through the wax, so I figured I'd use it until I ran out. I was still learning and doing each colour individually. In retrospect, searching the entire canvas for that little number '1' may have been a mistake - but hey! I was still learning, and for a second try, I'm still proud of this one, though I don't feel that desire to keep it the way I do with my first. The learning did continue here, I realised that the straight line connectors for the cheap pink pen were to straighten out the lines of the drills. I did try to do so, but I struggled with how adhesive the glue was - who knew glue sticks things? I didn't have a roller or any of the other little tools that I do now, and considering that, I think it's an impressive painting without the aftercare I now would give. I did consider taping the edges of the canvas to stop my hand from sticking, but I'm cheap and still don't think it looks bad.

All in all, I enjoyed this painting as much as the first. It's very therapeutic and calming to do them in spite of the fact that I was finishing the paintings at a mind-numbing pace. Yay, ADHD addiction. Even forcing myself to slow down to allow time for the Temu packages to arrive, I was struggling to put it down, sitting in Voice Chat with my friends, fiendishly placing 'A' in all the right spots, putting it away and swearing as I start 'C' only to spot an 'A' I'd missed. In this case and for this painting, I filled in the closest colour, and I don't think the painting suffers in any way for it. It is my painting after all and my decision how to do it. When I finally put it down, I felt that flood of need for another to do. Knock at the door? Please let it be Temu!