Blue pen sketch of an Egyptian queen in a striped headdress, with an Eye of Horus, an ankh, palm fronds and a flower of life behind her.

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Egyptian queen tattoo design sketch

Geometric · Colour · Flash

A blue ballpoint drawing on white paper of a stylised Egyptian woman wearing a striped nemes headdress and a layered collar. Fine hatching shapes the face, headdress and shoulders, and an Eye of Horus sits at the chest with palm fronds and a triangle-within-circle motif below. A large flower of life pattern fills the background behind the figure.

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Dear Tom,

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The power went at Ashby Fell on Tuesday, the same night the snow closed the pass, and Mrs Okonedo lit every candle in the back parlour so the guests could play cards without squinting. I was the only one with a biro. Everyone else had a phone with a dead battery, so I borrowed a pad of cheap paper from the register and started drawing the first thing that came to mind, which was the queen on the old Cairo postcard that has sat on your mother's mantel for thirty years.

I ruled the stripes of her headdress first, because they had to fall straight or she looked drunk. Then the collar, scale over scale, which took most of the second candle. Mr Pell from Leeds leaned over my shoulder and said the eye on her chest was watching him. I told him that was the point. He laughed for the first time all week, and the girl behind the bar asked if I could do her a palm tree on the back of a beer mat.

By midnight the room had gone quiet. I drew a flower of life behind the queen's head, circles overlapping until the paper seemed to hum under the pen, and I gave her an ankh to hold at the crown because the postcard had one, and because it seemed a shame to leave her empty-handed in a snowed-in inn.

When the lights came back at four, nobody cheered. Mrs Okonedo took the sheet, held it up to the lamp and asked who she was. I said I didn't know, only that she had been sitting in the parlour all night waiting for someone to finish her. She hangs above the register now, and the guests who stay longest are the ones who ask after her.

Your sister, Hannah

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