Blood will Flow

I am a bit late doing my own TAE22 entry, which meant I forgot to post a promotion for the event here - but there's still time to register (for free!), and complete and send your own arty postcard! The event is a global one, held every year, and all the art is posted online as well as going into a physical exhibition. This year's is in York in the UK, and the charity the money raised will benefit is The Encephalitis Society. You can find out all about the event HERE.

I wasn't sure what to do this year - for my first one I sent in a fanart watercolour of Sam Winchester, last year I inked and watercoloured a phoenix. So I wanted to do something different. Then I was trawling through Instagram and saw a wire sculpture of Poseidon and felt inspired.

I'm thinking this is more Fangorn than underwater sea god, but it's open to interpretation!





Initial inking


On my desk with the Poems about You watercolours I used. Just 3 colours in total - Poems' Prussian Blue and Gamboge on the background, and Schminke Desert Green on the face (which is a 2 pigment granulating mix of PR108 and PG26).

Thank you once again for all your good thoughts and hugs, you lovely bunch. I am much happier today having seen the old boy face to face. He's very wobbly but MUCH better than I'd feared. His movement is reasonable, he doesn't have that drastic one side thing that strokes so often cause, but his speech-centre has been hit quite badly, especially as he got more and more tired. But - perky enough, out of bed sitting up and relatively alert.
Evidence!

Of course the daft bugger had managed to get out of bed and try to walk to the toilet on his own this morning - got as far as the third bed before falling over and hitting his head on something. As if he needs any more blows to the head. Who does he think he is - a Winchester?

Oh and if any of my medical experts are reading this - any idea what Glasgow coma scores of 14, 13 and 15 might signify? His blood pressure they took while we were there was 133/66.

Hopefully there will be some doctors there tomorrow for us to ask some questions and find out what their long term prognosis is.