New editorial piece for Annemarie Neff at American Medical News about the team effort being used to consolidate and help out Medicaid (symbolized with the boat). Basically doctors and hospitals are trying to consolidate medicaid patients and work as a team to help relieve some of the cost while providing better care. Medicaid is a huge drain on the national debt and a system in drastic need for reform. It's also an essential program in need of saving and not to do so could be catastrophic. Possibly even cata-seamonster-trophic.
I had a good time painting this using gouache on hot-press paper to lay out the color structure and then subtracting out highlights with a wet brush. By heavily wetting the areas before the initial color blocking, I can bleed in some other subtle color variation (the more purplish red in the sea monster and the variation in the blue of the water) to get a little more depth in the painting without over powering the line work.
