Sunshine Challenge: Indigo

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Indigo to me means Sherlock Holmes's dressing gown. So I did this watercolor crayon tracing of a famous Sydney Paget illustration of "The Man with the Twisted Lip" in which Holmes sits on five pillows and smokes a pound of shag and figures everything out. Note: the color of the dressing gown is much more purple in real life.



I got the color from BBC Sherlock's "The Abominable Bride" episode. Where Holme sits down and goes to his Victorian Mind Palace and solves the case. I think they were trying to re-create the Paget image. And I wrote a genderswapped Sherlock Holmes fic called "Indigo" about this very dressing gown. [Non sequitir: Indigo also happens to be the name of my sister's poodle. It's black, not purple-blue.]

Indigo (1184 words) by okapi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Additional Tags: Gender or Sex Swap, Alternate Universe - Gender Changes, Femlock, Fem!John - Freeform, dressing gown, Episode: The Abominable Bride, Gen or Pre-Slash
Series: Part 11 of Clothes Make the Woman
Summary:

Sherlock receives a belated birthday gift from John. Inspired by the blue dressing gown from "The Abominable Bride."

Edited to add another fic with indigo in the title. This one is called "Mood Indigo," wherein Bertie Wooster and Jeeves get together with a little help from a song by Duke Ellington.

Mood Indigo (1000 words) by okapi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Reginald Jeeves/Bertram "Bertie" Wooster
Characters: Reginald Jeeves, Bertram "Bertie" Wooster
Additional Tags: Inspired by Music, Fluff, Declarations Of Love
Summary:

Music inspires Bertie and Jeeves.

Fluff. Inspired by Duke Ellington's Mood Indigo.

Comments

[lunabee34]

*admires drawing*

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Aw. Thanks! I was trying out some new crayons.

[kingstoken]

Sherlock looks cozy in that image

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yes, he spends all night smoking and deducing on five pillows and in the morning--case solved! :)

[cornerofmadness]

Love the drawing

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thanks! My first time trying watercolor crayons, you draw then sort of smudge things with a wet brush. It's fun!

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks for explaining that because art is one creative thing I'm not good at. I've never seen watercolor crayons but they sound fun.

[enemytosleep]

Oh the art is very cozy. I've never played with watercolor crayons, but the result is reminding me a little of pastel chalks.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

This was my first time trying it. I like it. Interesting when you add the water.

[smallhobbit]

A favourite pose of Holmes!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

He looks very thoughtful, yes.

[debriswoman]

Nicely done:-)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you very much!!

[icecheetah]

Darn, that tracing looks STYLISH.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Ha, ha! I'm flattered you think so.