Guntram de Lisle 01 - The Substitute by Tionne Rogers

Author:Tionne Rogers [Toledo, Ines]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

August 29th Still in London. I don't complain at all. I like the city a lot. Konrad took several days off after the New York mess (I don't know how it ended, but he's satisfied, and his customers' asses, plus Sacrosanct Swiss Banking Secrecy are safe from American DA's) We went to the National Gallery, to some marchands (his suppliers, of course), to the Covent Garden once, walking around the city (much to Heindrik's chagrin but he didn't complain to his boss, and stoically endured it). It was like the planned vacation in Buenos Aires but here.

As the weather was fine (just some rain) I started to sketch at a park near the house (with Heindrik trailing behind) going back to charcoals (Friederich will kill me when he sees the stain in one of the jackets) and some strange pencils I saw in a store here. Graphitints. It's like graphite but when you wet them, the pencils become like watercolours but with a more dense quality. I also found a “diplomatic solution” for the tempera. Ready made egg base. Not the best, but at least, I'll survive Jean Jacques fury if he finds in “his” refrigerator a container with a mixture of egg yolk, turpentine and oil.

Someone didn't call me at all and I'm glad. Honestly, I don't know how I would react. Konrad is right. He's the devil and evil comes in many disguises. He can look civil and nice, but he has no problems to have a brothel with children in. I still don't know who's worse, the solicitor or the provider. Both should be boiled in oil.

NO. I should never speak with him again. It's a problem too big for me. If I'm returning to my old materials is because I feel more comfortable with them and it made no sense to buy oil paints when I have many perfectly good tubes at home. Nothing to do with his suggestion of using tempera.... that's for children.

Shit!! Children again!!! I can't get rid of the image of a Thai girl I saw in a documentary some time ago. Shit, he bought my portrait of the children reading!!! New decoration for his clubs!!

I want to throw up.

September 5th Konrad went away on business again. Our holiday was longer than expected. Almost three weeks together and no more than three or four hours going to the office or locking himself in his studio. That's spoiling me. I could get used to it.

Unfortunately, reality says I have to return to Zurich on the 12thto prepare for School, and submit myself to Ostermann's big scolding when he realises I didn't touch a single oil tube since August. Pencils, graphitints, charcoal, temperas on paper, some watercolours. He can't complain I didn't work; 6 field sketch pads of 80 sheets 9*12, plus 2 other more of 5*7 (one is lost, pity) and 5 charcoal pads of 32 sheets and several watercolours. The Amazonian Jungle lost several trees with me. Certainly I have bulk; quality, I'm not so sure.

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