A.Delight Studio

6.5 x 10" Watercolor on Paper "I cannot stand...and I am going to hold your had while I say this: Men, engineers. and I mean that with my full chest!           I don't know if you don't want to listen to me because I am a woman. I don't know if you don't want to listen to me because I am younger than you. I don't know if you're just actually that bad at your job. But I am siiiiick of going into meetings where I have to defend the data I have ALREADY gave you.  Like that data I gave you on May 24th that said, hey,  "This isn't going to work."  And then on May 28th, "Hey, this isn't gonna work." And then in June 12, "Hey, are we gonna fix this? This isn't going to work" And then again on July 8th.  And then all of a sudden we get this week and you're  flabbers gasted. Timbers shiver. Because your shit doesn't work and then I have to go into this meeting and say,  "You knew that. I told you that....

6.5" x 10" Watercolor on Paper   "No matter how they try to paint you, hahah you still emerge a masterpiece." "Someone is mad because you chose peace over drama  and distance over disrespect.  Hmm, stay mad." ~ iampaulafontana

  6.5" x 10" Watercolor on Paper           "If you grew up as the, "good" kid, the one that nobody ever needed to worry about, theres some things that you needed to hear your entire life. I am going to say them to you now. (I'm a good kid in recovery and I am also a Trauma Therapist now. I was a burned out, overachieving, people pleasing, perfectionist, pushover and shape shifting chameleon for most of my life and I teach you how to heal yourself and how to break these cycles for your kids.) Alright, are we ready? Lets go!           You are not a burden. You're not a burden. It is a privilege and an honor for people to take care of you when you're struggling. You don't have to earn love by being "good" and accomplishing and preforming and pleasing and doing everything perfectly. You are NOT hard to love. You're not. You're easy to love. It's a privilege and an honor and a delight to get to love you.     ...

                                                                                       6" x 9" watercolor on 140 lb.  Strathmore paper.  "Your life will change when you realize that embarrassment is just the price you fucking pay excellence. It's the price you pay for greatness and the sooner you accept that is your fate, that if you want to be great at something, music, dancing, acting, writing...I don't know, creating a business, whatever the fuck it is. The sooner you accept and expect embarrassment, and you just accept it as the sacrifice the cost you have to pay to be fucking great at something, the sooner you're gonna become excellent.  You cannot skip that failure. How will you learn otherwise? You will never ...

  6" x 9" watercolor on 140 lb.  Strathmore paper.            "Okay ya'll. Tim Walz is really growing on me. Like, I really am starting to really like this man. Like, I like his background. I love coaches, first of all. I love me some football coaches. But he's got a vibrant personality. He's always smiling. He seems like a really decent human being, which is what we need right now. I love the fact that he knows how to roast, but ha also knows how to stick to the bottom line of what this campaign is about. It's about the American people.  It's about affordable housing.  It's about affordable healthcare.  It's about women's reproductive rights.  It's about LBGTQIA rights.            It's about climate change and bands on assault weapons so that another school doesn't get shot up. Like, this is what we need in this country. I love the Harris Walz ticket!"  Harris and Walz 2024!  ...

7.5" x 10" watercolor on Strathmore paper      On the campaign trail this past week, Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz visited Eau Claire, Wisconsin. As the rally concluded, they exited the long blue stage.  Just as they got to the end of the stage walkway, Tim jumped down and immediately grabbed a book from a little girl in the crowd standing with her Mom, pen in hand. Tim then ushered the book to Kamala, handing her the pen. Kamala then took the the time to not only sign the book, but to write the little girl a note. When I saw this, I knew I had to capture it.  -A. Delight

                                                                                            6" x 9" watercolor on 140 lb.  Strathmore paper.       "Do you know that women that get divorced are much more likely to not have a retirement and financially take a massive hit? And the majority of divorces, like 70% of divorces are asked for by women. And that right now, the highest divorcers right now are what they call, "the grey" or women above the age of 50. The women that are doing this are so courageous and so amazing because they're divorcing their husbands and they don't have any retirement, they don't have a 401K. They weren't paid for the emotional labor that they did in the relationship....

                                                                                       6" x 9" watercolor on 140 lb.  Strathmore paper.  "I'm not sure who needs to hear this but I can confirm that the day you start feeling confident and comfortable to like do things alone and actually enjoy it is the day you start living. Like, of course doing things with someone is freaking nice, but so is doing whatever the fuck you want.  No other opinions, wants or needs in the mix, just me, myself and lil' ol' saggy." - sierraalongi

                                                                                  6" x 9" watercolor on 140 lb.  Strathmore paper.                         "Can someone explain to me the actual translation of what it means when someone says that you're intimidating? Because I don't understand! I have been told that by many people and yet I know for a fact that I'm nice. I know for a fact that I have opinions and that sometimes I express them.                      But what does it actually mean when someone says that you're intimidating? Is it a compliment? Is it a diss? Is it a subliminal message, telling...

  6" x 9" watercolor on 140 lb.  Strathmore paper.            "Every time that something happens even remotely close to the trans community, I get inundated with people wanting to hear what my hot take is and people wanna hear what I'm gonna say about it. And to be honest, you all know what I'm talking about at this point. You all have heard every single angle, every single take that you could of heard on this, you've heard it. I just want to remind everybody that this is a human being. That these are women who have worked really hard their entire life, who have dedicated their life to something that they truly love and care deeply about.       And meanwhile, while we're ripping them apart and analyzing them under every single angle we possibly can and talking about them and dehumanizing them and all the things that we're seeing and doing as we're doing. As we are doing that, they're still people. They are all still women ...

6" x 9" watercolor on 140 lb.  Strathmore paper.            "I am a woman born with XY chromosomes, which is typically male for DNA. Okay? It's called intersex, look it up, first of all. But there's this whole thing with the olympics right now with this boxer that apparently has an athletic advantage for having male DNA. Oh, yeah?            Well, how come I've never been able to do a damn push up or pull up in my life? Like, actually. And while I'm sitting here fighting these turfs on Facebook, about how she's a man and she shouldn't be allowed in women's sports, I was born with a "regina" (you can do the math there) umm downstairs, just like other ladies. All right? Umm, so anybody wanna fight me?" - Lyss  

6" x 9" watercolor on 140 lb.  Strathmore paper.              "Politics 101 and Arlene, Unfiltered. And you better believe this is unfiltered. It is so unfiltered that I have been, in the 24 hours I've been on TikTok, I have received so much hate mail and I welcome it. Bring it on! Bring it on.            Now, I came on here yesterday because I'm so angry. I'm so angry about so many things as a woman in America and having to, you know, you grow up in the civil rights era and everything's kind of humming along. We had a terrible recession in the 1970's. We had the Vietnam War. Then the decade of greed comes along and it's like Jesus Louise, you know, is there just a normal period of time that a person can live?            But, I'm really fortunate because I've had a chance to live through the last 60 years of all these changes taking place in America, some good, some not so ...

                                                                                6" x 9" watercolor on 140 lb.  Strathmore paper.    "I just have to remind everyone, it is fine for race and gender and identity to play a role in your vote. It's fine. For so long, people have made it seem (white men have made it seem) as if that is a shallow factor to consider when electing a president. Political representation is a really big fucking deal. And what a massive trick they've played on voters to make people feel as if they need to be embarrassed to care about this for that to play a role. It's absurd.  Do you think that all of these white male presidents who've been elected for hundreds of years were not elected because they were white m...

6" x 9" watercolor on 140 lb.  Strathmore paper.  "If your'e a woman and you've been in a woman's bathroom, stop scrolling.  We all know this secret society, right? Nobody is enemies typically, everybody is getting along. Everybody is rooting for each other. Everybody is telling everybody how amazing they look. It's a great place to be, especially after a few. It is one of the most supportive environments that a woman can be in, in her life. Nobody in the girls room is judging what you look like, you know, judging your choices, everybody is on your team. And if theres a girl crying in the bathroom, everybody is trying to help her. Which is the same energy that all women need to take to the voting booths this year.   Like, no bullshit! We all have to go to the voting booth, like there's a girl crying in the one next to us. Because if you're a woman and you go into that voting booth and you vote against your own rights and your daughters rights and ...

6" x 9" watercolor on 140 lb.  Strathmore paper.         "And this is why we chose the bear. This is why we chose the bear. We aren't even safe from men like this when we're disessed. It haunts me. What happened to Marilyn. Maralyn Monroes body went missing for hours after her death. I think we all know why. There's a reason why they don't like to hire men at funeral homes. This is why. Males sexual attention is valueless. It's valueless because they give it to children. They give it to animals. They give it to corpuses.  This is the death rattle of the patriarchy y'all. They know that their time is up. They know that women are coming for them in November. They know. They can feel it and let me tell y'all something, let me tell you something. You better be grateful that women are only coming for equality and that we are not coming for revenge." - Jordan The Grey Witch This is my 10th portrait in my #women4women series. If you would like t...

6" x 9" watercolor on 140 lb.  Strathmore paper.         "In a side note, if you are interested in knowing about my personal life, I hate dating in my 40's because...sigh...I don't know. I don't think men suck but why do I continuously get people that are unable? I put myself out there, opened up my heart once again and here we go again. I mean, I'm pretty like, I'm good to my core, so I'll be fine. But it's like, damn! How do I just keep making the same bad mistakes over and over again? Like I just don't get it.  Why?       Why do I keep picking people that don't show up when they say they are going to show up or are alcoholics or are deeply insecure and need me to constantly validate them. Like, I know I'm not the greatest catch ever but I'm smart enough, I'm kind, responsible, I take care of myself. I have as descent amount of confidence that I developed since I was 35. Maybe in my early 20's and early 30"s I wa...

6" x 9" watercolor on 140 lb.  Strathmore paper.       "Leave the first time they lash out at you. Leave the first time they lie. Leave the first time they're avaisive about reasonable questions. Leave the first time they make a rascist, homophobic or masaganistic comment. Leave the first time they put down people who go to therapy. Leave the first time they behaive badly and blame you or other people for why they had to behaive that way.       Get more excited about leaving people who are not healthy for you. People tend to behave their best at the beginning and things only get worse from there so its what happens in the beginning, is a preview of what's coming. A little bit of evasiveness, a little bit of lying, a little bit of blaming people and refusing to take responsibility at the beginning, is like an avalanche later that is going to turn into a... just dump truck of dysfunction later on and you can avoid that. The issue, is that we te...

6" x 9" watercolor on 140 lb.  Strathmore paper.  "Hey ya'll, Good mornin. White Women, don't let us down. Never in my years, I'm almost 30 so I ain't been livin' a long time but even in my work, my research, I've never seen anything like this and I know for a while we kept sayin, we don't wanna live in unprecedented times anymore but this is some unprecedented shit that I was literally not prepared for and I can't speak for all of us, but I know I can speak for a lot of us when I say,  "We are struggling with hope right now." Ya know, this is a historical moment but for us this is a lifestyle. Ummm ooooof. It's been a long time coming and to see as many people (not just white women) asian women, latino women, queer folk, been with us to an extent umm and when I say to an extent, I mean excluding the white gays that adhere to proximity to witness. Latinos been with us to an extent and by extent I mean excluding the Latinos th...

                                                                                     6" x 9" watercolor on 140 lb.  Strathmore paper.  "Hi this video is for White Women. If you would like to unpack some thoughts with me. Umm about,  1. Why now?  2. And the Glass Cliff This is for you. Ready? Lets do it! Okay! This last week has been fascinating and wild and beautiful and curious and all kinds of things and feelings right? Okay. So, we are all jazzed and pumped up. We had that great, White Women Answer the Call on Thursday, we've raised 11 million dollars, we are following the leadership of Black Women, umm its been so great. But why now?  I've been listening to a lot of content creators, black content creators o...

                                                                                6" x 9" watercolor on 140 lb.  Strathmore paper.  "Do you want to know, how I know, that America...SPECIFICALLY white female America...Do you want to know that we are ready for Kamala Harris to be our president?  I mean I hear all kinds of detractors out there about it. About America not being ready but let me tell you, I have proof. I have proof that America is ready. You wanna hear it? Wanna hear?  The White Women's Phone Call, Zoom call last night that raised 8.5 million dollars. I promise in my soul, I beleive it never, never would have happened without the leadership of those 44,000 Black Women. If they hadn't done what they did on Sunday raising a...

  6" x 9" watercolor on 140 lb.  Strathmore paper.  "I've seen discourse around Kamala sleeping her way to the top, which is just discourse that we would see about any woman in her position. Patriarchy has a hard time acknowledging the power of women, without relating it back to men and they do that by way of women's sexuality because within a patriarchy its the only thing that men feel powerless to. Suppose for a second that Kamala was a young woman, learning about the boys club that is every professional and political environment in this country by way of sleeping with men. Which by the way, if you know, you know happens more often according to themes of coercion and exploitation in themes of consent or respect. If thats true, it makes me trust her infinitely more. Because of her present day joyful approach to life and the man that she chose to marry. I watched an interview with them this morning and I thought to myself,  "This is the way that I want to be...

                                                                                6" x 9" watercolor on 140 lb.  Strathmore paper.       "My caucasian sisters y'all are the key. You have always been the key. Wherever white women throw their weight is the way it goes and historically white women have alligned themselves with the power structure which is white men. Even though supporting white male policies goes against their best interest. And theres a plether of reasons for (we, we don't need to get into it, at least not in this video) but the point that I am trying to make here to my caucasion sisters is this: It makes 100% sense why you would alaign yourself with the power structure. Duh. But I want you to understand that whit...

6" x 9" watercolor on 140 lb.  Strathmore paper.  "Don't waist your life dancing on a farm. I just realized today that I didn't wright anything the whole time I was married for 20 years. Nothing but grocery lists and budgets. I just stopped, I don't know why. It was a silly pursuit, right? You know, motherhood is so much more noble, being a wife and caretaker to a man. Don't dance in a field, don't sing in the shower, don't hide your talent in a garage or a basement or a barn. Create things for people to see and use and experience. Use your gifts to help and heal and make them feel. Don't let yourself waste away because someone else convinced you there was a better way to live."  - Nat LaJune This is my second portrait in my #women4women series. Her words validated to me, that I should bring these ideas to fruition. If you would like to see more of Nat LaJunes videos, click the following link: https://www.tiktok.com/@alwaysmending?_t=8ob8...

                                                                                       6" x 9" watercolor on 140 lb.  Strathmore paper.  "Hot take in under 60 seconds of what I think the real work is on getting out the vote for Kamala Harris. Talking to pasty community. You know what the work is not? The work is not having the last word or belittling someone online with your comment or shaming them or making them feel like an idiot. No the work, is umm talking to the people in your life. The people that are not sure who they are going to vote for or maybe not even registered to vote, talking to them. But you know what talking also entails? It also entails listening. You know what the most effective way it is to get out th...