My friends at the Pavilion where I go to paint on a Thursday had the idea that we should all put a subject to develop, on a piece of paper then draw one out of a hat, we would all then produce a response to that topic, we drew out "Blood". The following day a few of the group went along to an exhibition of Aubery Beardsley and some other illustrators at "The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery" at Leeds University. The image below is my response influenced by the exhibition and the topic of "Blood"

Blood and Beardsley