Blood will Flow

I'm having a sit down after spraying my gorilla. News Flash - art hurts, folks! My back is sore and my right hand is complaining after holding the spray nozzle down. Heh. I'm a wimp.

So here's the spraying in action. Sorry it's a link not an embedded gif but it's not working and I can't remember the workaround. :(

I did garner some interest from passers by, though not as much as you might expect.

Here's how he looks at the moment - though the darker blue in the photo isn't showing right, it's more a kind of purple. Now I've got to wait until Paul comes home and we are going to attempt to get him into the house. First we need to move Magical Mysteryphant the elephant out...


Before I went to the Isle of Man I'd been painting my first Elmer the Elephant - a Beatles-themed one called Magical Mysteryphant - which I had a lot of fun with. Sadly it's for Plymouth, not my home town trail!
In spite of that, I'm pleased how it's turned out.

John and Paul are on the other side, and the magical mystery tour bus is on the bum.

So he needs to move outside to await collection, and tomorrow I have another blank one arriving from Plymouth which will be next on my list after I've done the gorilla.

I'm still waiting to hear whether I have any more to paint - the Elmers for Newcastle haven't done their selection process yet, so I could still get another elephant. I won't be painting an Oor Wullie, but to be honest, that's a relief as it was such an odd shape.