Blood will Flow

Made a bit of progress today, though not as much as I'd hoped!
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This is one of those things where time passes without realising it... I started at about 9:30 this morning and after a while I thought maybe it was time for a break. Uh huh, just a bit - it was nearly 1pm! Now I've called a halt for the day at 4pm because my back's knackered and I'm supposed to be going to life drawing class tonight. Damn the reversals of life. When I was young and fit I had no time, now I've got time but a body that's falling to bits LOL. It's just as well I'm not painting in public as the grunting and groaning and swearing while I'm crawling, lying and kneeling isn't pretty.

That being said, Clarence is coming along!

Lion picspam alert...
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Sadly my knight never made it past the initial shortlist, and my artist friend didn't get her design accepted either, which was much more surprising. So that's a shame - though I'm still planning a long weekend in Lincoln next summer with my Mum so we can peruse the competition then!

However, I entered a design for an otter trail in Dartmoor and that one got accepted - so sometime in December/early January I'll be getting a 3 foot tall otter sculpture to paint up! That one is being run by the National Park, not the usual company who do the trails nationwide, and I think it's slightly less professional in its approach to things. The reason I say that is because I sent in a Harry Otter design first of all, and the chap in charge emailed back to say they already had one of those, so would I like to submit something else? The deadline was only a couple of days away as I'd only heard about the project late, but he wasn't bothered, said I could take a few more days if I wanted. So I asked if anyone had done the Hound of the Baskervilles (which is set on Dartmoor). He said, no, and he'd reserve the design idea for me! Still i was happy to get official confirmation today.

This one doesn't pay a stipend like the Wild in Art ones do, but I can claim back up to £100 for materials, and if mine is one of a 'golden' 25 otters that get auctioned, then I get 10% of the auction price. Which is better than nothing, though I've no clue how these golden otters get chosen.

So with the otter and three large plastic ducks to paint for the Grand Norwich Duck Race 2017, I think I'll be quite busy for a while. LOL

It's been pointed out that I should have shared some piccies so here they are:
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So today was the deadline for showing the Mods that we have actually produced some sort of arty thing for our authors.

One of mine is complete and the author (cat2000) is so incredibly organised she has the fic all done and everything ready for posting on 6th June - including a website to host it all, and a soundtrack which is awesome.  That's the one with the fairies in it.

The other one (with the baby dragon) written by, appropriately enough, Charlies_dragon, doesn't get posted untll 10th August so I still have time to do some banners for chapter dividers and anything else I can think of for that one.   I've done the cover design (3rd draft!) which is what got submitted today.

So now all I have to do is sit back and wait for my fave authors and artists to start posting on 6th June...there are going to be some excellent works to keep me going over the hellatus, and I am so looking forward to reading them all!!