I Read An Au Where Havers Is An Artist. Let Me Tell You About Official War Artists.

I read an au where Havers is an artist. Let me tell you about Official War Artists.

Official War Artists are artists commissioned by the country’s government to document the conflict, war, and home front during WWI and WWII (mostly in WWI, but being an Official War Artist has been continued to this day!).

The process of a war artist is that they make a sketch, after the sketch some use watercolours to block the highlights, shadows, and colour to the scene or person. Now that they have their general guidelines and they know what to paint, they go to their own personal studio and begin painting.

If they’re in the frontlines they’re actually alongside soldiers. They paint the scene in front of them, drive back to their studio (they’re issued with a vehicle), and paint.

Because they are commissioned by the government, Official War Artists are given a rank so that they are permitted to go to the frontlines. They’re technically officers!

Now back to the point I’m making. So imagine Havers is an Official War Artist. He paints Button House, in his spare time he paints the birds and gives them to the Captain, he paints the Captain a portrait. He’s very cagey about showing his progress to the others but when the Captain asks he’s delighted and shows him. Havers paints their Sunday stroll and calls it “The Most Beautiful Day of my Life” and it hangs inside Button House. It used to be in the Common room and now moved into the Captain’s room. Havers’ work is displayed in art galleries and museums. Alison goes on a date with Mike and she finds Havers’ paintings and snaps a picture of them to show the Captain.

When Havers was at the frontlines he was caught in the crossfire and took shrapnel to his face and he was unable to paint until recovery. When he recovered he did a self portrait of himself with the scars.

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Based on this post. Thanks for the inspo @torchwood-99!

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