hats

I haven’t posted much image wise in a while, so I’m putting up some of the images that resulted from my gouache play-time while Liam was away. I popped in my Breakfast at Tiffany’s DVD ’cause I figured it would give me a wealth of brightly coloured and striking images to work from.
At some point I’m going to go through that movie and catalogue all the hats - there are some awesome hats.
So these were all painted with my gouache and inked with a Staedtler permanent marker (fine) - because I’ve broken or used up all my other drawing pens. The only problem I have with the Staedtler is that there is no character to its line, and it tends to leak through the page. Other than that it is probably the most waterproof thing you can buy, so it works quite well for water-colour.
I just worked in my sketchbook. It has fairly thick, textured pages. Not water-colour paper (as you can see, the pages wrinkled) but these were just quick studies, I didn’t feel like going to the effort of breaking out the expensive stuff.
Now that I’ve dealt with that, it’s on to other matters.Like my brain meats.
It turns out, what has been causing my poor little head all this trouble is something called a cavernous angioma. It is a cluster of blood filled cells, rather than normal functioning… brain meats. These “cavernomas” can be especially problematic if they haemorrhage, or leak out that blood. They can also cause seizures, headaches and general neurological problems.
So, it’s still not great, but at least it’s not growing. And, hopefully, it can be removed. Of course that means brain surgery but… all the more reason to catalogue all those hats.