Blood will Flow

This week fell at a bad time for me, as I was going away from the Thursday, plus two members of our already reduced team of nine ended up not taking part, while a third was not feeling it... I somehow doubt our team will take part again (at least not together in the same format). One invisible person added herself to our team early on then never replied to any emails (which is the only contact route GISH gave) so we have no idea who she was!

However, looking back at what I did, it wasn't too bad. I had said this year I was only going to do challenges I really fancied, and that I was going to try and make them as good as I possibily could. I don't think I quite managed that, but it was a moderate amount of fun! And my active team mates did some fricking awesome stuff, so there is that.

Anyhow, here is a glimpse of my (part) week.

#121 SIDE-BY-SIDE. You know those garden gnomes that dotted your grandmother’s backyard? Well, it’s been a while and now they have fallen on hard times. They have turned to a life of crime and misanthropy. Their little gnome hearts are filled with despair, hatred, and regret. Show us the before and after.

When gnomes go bad...things get very dark, very quick.
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This week I went on a three morning workshop in Colchester to learn the basics of watercolours. There were only four of us, and it was interesting to see how different everyone's styles were, and the different levels ot experience and abilities. Anyhow, I had fun and I think this one was more useful than the other one day  workshop I did a while back, as this tutor spent more time on how to use different brushes, plus I liked her approach working with a single colour to really show how much variety you can get in adding more or less water. Simple stuff but that was exactly what I needed.

Herewith a picspam of my three mornings.

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Today I went to an expressive portraits, speed painting in acrylics workshop - it was a lot of fun and TOTALLy outside of my comfort zone... but then so was the watercolour essentials workshop on Saturday. So what, you may well ask, IS my comfort zone? Heh heh. I'll tell you my comfort zone, folks. It's snuggled on my sofa, asleep.

Back to today though...

I had a vague idea that I might be able to do something for one of the upcoming challenges, and my lovely friend Lois, who runs the workshop, messaged me to ask if I had any references I wanted her to print for me, so I pinged her off four photos of - you guessed it - Jensen and Jared.

For my first painting, I tried Jared. We had to pick a piece of mounting board to paint on, and like my other workshop with Lois, the idea was to have a mid tone background colour you could then use, and the painting would start with a pale yellow to pick out all the highlights. Then the other colours could be added and the darks last. There's no drawing, except with the paint brush.

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Many moons ago the little writing community on here called 12mowrimo decided to have a go at some original fiction. We produced this anthology of short stories, called Dust. I've got a story in there, and there are some other authors I'm sure you'll recognise.

I missed the launch due to personal circumstances and then forgot all about it. But if you are like sci-fi and fantasy you'll enjoy reading these. As the blurb says: An anthology of science fiction and fantasy—of fairies and angels and ill sisters and sentient dust, worlds of water-breathers and sky people, of prisoners and genetically altered outliers, and a colony on the moon. These tales explore themes of love and hate, loss and recovery, life and death, and good and evil. Seven authors, seven unique takes on the human condition.

Click HERE to go to Smashwords and download the e-book!

I'll put my own story here for convenience.

Word count: ~7000
Warnings: Contains both Het and M/M relationships but no actual sex happens.
Summary: A fairy story or a love story, call it what you will. This is the tale of two siblings and a stranger who found that love at first sight isn't all it's cracked up to be.

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By Jove, I think he's done. Finally! Now I have to varnish him. This bear is being sponsored by a company called Biomass and they've given me some special varnish that is supposed to keep my bear free from bacteria - apparently they are going to go round the trail swabbing bears to show how their product keeps mine so much cleaner! LOL

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Made a bit of progress today, though not as much as I'd hoped!
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This lion is killing me! LOL. I did some painting yesterday but today decided I really need to get him up in the air a bit so I can paint the underneath bits and the insides of his legs without having to lie on the floor. So that meant searching around for something to prop him up on - not easy when his legs are so spaced out, and his feet so massive! Anyhow, we had some work done yonks ago which meant some original Victorian quarry tiles were taken up, and we saved them because they might come in useful one day. Today was that day! I brushed off as many as I could find that didn't have too much gunk adhering to their bases, and voila. Clarence is now about 8-9 inches higher off the floor than before.

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I blame Jared.



Except clearly I need to make the first one again as I forgot to embiggen it.

The Creative Sketchbooking course has been more about drawing stuff this term so far - much more my comfort zone than playing with flour and chalk.
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I had thought I didn't need one of these because it was easy to search on the Fanart tag, wasn't it? Except it isn't. I've done too much art, and I've forgotten to tag some posts and well, I just searched for something without success, so if I can't find it, then nobody else will stand a chance! So here's the beginnings of my attempt to sort it into some semblance of order.

Supernatural Fanarts
Click on the thumbnail to see the art posts and get links to any related fics, etc.
Big Bangs
sammybigbang 2016
for indiachick's Speak of the Devil, featuring Sam on a motorbike among other things.

for meangreenlimabean's Smile because it Happened


Other fic related challenges
meanttobe 2016
J2 in the jungle for phoenix1966, The Lost
For zara_zee's J2 biker fic, Jensen's Choice
meanttobe 2015

meanttobe 2014

reversebang 2016
for de_nugis's The Age of Foolishness

spn_joystick 2015
for sw0rdy's Five Nights at Freddy Fazbear's

spncasefic 2016
for hit_the_books' story The Hitchhiker

for stagepageandscreen's story The Best Things in Life are Free

Kevin big bang 2015
kevinbb for Prodigal_anon's Sussing for Truffles

Spn_cinema 2015
for firesign10's Night of the Impala

wincestbigbang
2015
for caffeinatedmoose, Oh My Love, Please Dont Cry
for beekeepercain's Brotherhood

spn_bigpretzel
2016
for kcscribbler's adorable de-aging fic

quicky_bang
2016
Let it burn for kassidy62
Random SPN art
Pic without fic (mostly)
Summer storm for spn_heatwave
Car wash for spn_heatwave
Birthday shotgunning for big_heart_june


Other fandoms Fanarts

Marvel


Other miscellaneous art
Traditional

Digital