Blood will Flow

I didn't really follow snowflake this year but a few friends did this one and I thought - why not.

Challenge #14

Fandom Scavenger Hunt

Looking around you, post a pic or description of:

1. a fannish item
Hard to avoid in this house...

This is our mantlepiece

2. something round
Snacking...


3. something that is your favorite colour
Weirdly there isn't really anything in our living room that is my fave colour so here's a snippet of our curtains. Not keen on the green but the red and dark red are nice.


4. the last game you played (video, phone, table top, etc.)
I was going to say I don't play games but since a few weeks ago I got hooked on Wordle...


5. a book you are currently reading
No books on the go at the moment but I'm re-reading this at the moment

Soooo good! If your haven't read it, click HERE.

6. album art of the first song that comes up on shuffle

Such a good album, and I love his voice.

7. the last movie you watched
At the cinema - Matrix Resurrections

On telly just watched Men in Black International (again)

8. TV show you're currently watching
It's cute!


9. the homescreen, lockscreen, or desktop wallpaper from your device
A fox I did for my friend Lois's birthday

A long, long time ago, Marvel Trumps Hate 2020 had an auction to raise money for charity.  The Marvel Art Party on Discord put together a package deal of 9 artists, of which I was one. We were won by the dynamic duo, Mystrana and Greywrites, and after much faffing and deliberation about what to do, I finally managed to finish my offering! Mystrana and Greywrites were happy for us to share with the world, so you can check all the fills in the AO3 collection.

Without further ado, I present Witch Bucky and his familiar, Alpine the cat, flying over some medieval city, in a far distant and happy AU.
First the SFW version with pants


And the NSFW version minus pants

The naked except for boots version came first, pants were added digitally!

After finally making the decision about what to draw, the process was pretty simple.
I had been wanting Bucky to be flying on his broomstick, when I saw some photos taken using a special lens which showed the scene in a kind of inverted global view. I also looked at medieval maps with the building drawn in street view style, and decided to combine the two ideas for the background.
Here's the aerial view without Bucky and co.

It's drawn in pencil, inked then watercoloured. The paper was round but wouldn't fit on the scanner so it got cropped into an ellipse. 😂
Bucky was drawn and painted on a separate piece of watercolour paper then I mashed the two scanned paintings together digitally. I adjusted the colours to reflect the actual colours as the scans leach a lot of the vibrance out. Other than that, there's no digital interferrence with the traditional art.
Here's the Bucky painting with his basket/sack of companions. Up to you whether he or Alpine have bewitched the actual Avengers or Bucky's made the plushies for his cat to play with. Either way, little Plushy Cap is happy to hold onto Bucky's finger...😍

This time I'm painting in a really nice space called Makerspace - I knew the elephants were going to be problematic at nearly 3m long and 1.6m tall, so I'd been desperately looking around for somewhere to paint. My brother in law had offered up his garage which I'd used for the rocket, but fitting two elephants in there would have been really cramped. Anyhow, long story short, I posted on a creatives group on Facebook, and this Makerspace came up. I had heard of it before but I'd thought they only had the top floor of the premises, which last time I'd seen pictures were full of lathes and printers and laser cutting equipment. But it turned out they'd expanded into the ground floor - had two decent sized rooms with natural light and big double doors - flipping marvellous.

So I've made great progress! One is practically finished, I just need to get sign off from the trail organisers next week so I can varnish, and the second one just needs the special paint applied to the legs and some finishing touches and it too will be done. I'm really pleased. I'd thought they would take me much longer!

So here are a few sneak peeks. I know you won't, but please don't share anywhere, as the trails always want to keep the full designs secret until the launch dates.

This one is called It's a Holi Holiday, and is meant to be a representation of the Hindu Holi festival of colour.


It's all done with cans of spray paint apart from the flowers which were acrylic marker pens, and the hearts which I used a stencil brush. The hands are three different sized stencils I cut myself.

The second one is called We Will Rise, and has a more serious theme - the phoenixes are refugees/migrants, fleeing their homes to make new lives in our country. Luton, where this trail is going to be, has a large population of migrants of varying backgrounds. I got some special paint called Scorched Earth from Jackson Art, which they made for a charity called Migrate. It's a black acrylic, made from ash taken from Kurdish fields destroyed in Iraq. When I read about the making of the paint, I bought 2 tubes in the hopes of being able to use it on something meaningful, so I was really happy when this design got chosen.

I hope people will stop for a moment and think about the many reasons people have for leaving everything they know behind to try and start all over in a strange place.

Anyway, I haven't applied the Scorched Earth paint yet, that's what I need to do next week, so here's We Will Rise as of yesterday.
I can't get back far enough to get the whole side in from this direction

I've pretty much finished, but can't get it signed off yet so have to wait before varnishing. It's probably just as well the rocket is sitting my brother in law's garage and not inside our house, or I'd be inclined to keep fiddling with it.

A few views in the round
The big tree with batbox, fungi and squirrel

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Via goss

Not SPN today, and only one prompt. This one is Labyrinth, for @nikolas_tower's #Obscutober on Instagram.

I'd messed up this page in my sketchbook trying out colours for one of my SPN cinema fills, but then I thought, why not try ink on top of the random watercolours? So yep, there's some inking, then some gouache on top, and Jareth has a blue face, but why not?!

Because I should be doing almost anything else... stolen from tsuki_no_bara
who borrowed it from musesfool

A Place: Edinburgh


A Food: Bread

A Drink: Coffee

Animal: Sheep

A Number: One

Color: Black

Boy's name: Percy

Girl's Name: Genevieve

Profession: Shipbuilding

A Vehicle: Cadillac

A kitchen implement: Knife

Post 10 celebrities that you have been in love with (had a crush on). One per day. No comment, just a picture. Then ask a friend to take up the challenge.
I challenge anyone who wants to play.


I just love her.
And look where she is, jj1564!!!