Kylian and Brett by Edward Kendrick

Author:Edward Kendrick [Kendrick, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
Published: 2018-05-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Brett spent his first morning in the city unpacking his studio supplies and setting things up to his satisfaction. Then he went grocery shopping, returning home overloaded with food and necessities. As he made a second trip up, with one too many bags in hand, and his protesting muscles let him know they weren’t happy, he wished he knew how to get hold of Orson or Gid. They’d make quick work of this. Of course, thinking of them brought thoughts of Kylian. Not that he hadn’t been on Brett’s mind from the moment he woke up.

“Not happening. Never will,” he muttered as he began putting everything away after a third trip down to the car to get the last of his purchases. “I’ll have to deal with my feelings and hope they disappear before I see him again. As if, but I’ll act like they have.”

After making a sandwich—which he ate while he went online to make a list of nearby art galleries—he headed out.

“Mr. Wescott, it’s a pleasure to meet you,” said the owner of the first gallery Brett visited. “Please allow me to show you around. Are you visiting Denver or have you moved here?” From there, the man tried fairly subtly to convince Brett to allow him to show his paintings.

It was virtually the same with the owners of two more downtown galleries and three in an arts district only a few miles away. If I were egotistical, my head would be swollen by now. That thought—on his way home—made him chuckle. If the various men, and one woman, had their ways, he could have his artwork flooding the city. Not that it was his aim to let that happen. He planned to continue doing commissioned portraits again, the same as he had in New Orleans, after choosing one gallery to show his other work.

Gaining clients meant he would need publicity. He called a reporter he knew in New Orleans. He gave him the name of one of the art columnists who wrote for the Post. Brett got in touch with her and she immediately and enthusiastically set up an interview with him at his studio. The following Sunday there was a half-page article about him on the third page of the Life and Culture section of the paper. Two days later, he had his first commission.

In the interim, he had chosen a gallery for his paintings, both portraiture and otherwise. After signing a contract, Brett had chosen four pieces to show, dropping them by the gallery. With that done, he spent the next few days wandering the city, doing sketches of various buildings and people.

What he had in mind was a new series of paintings delineating the city and its residents, done in combination of realism with a sharp edge of the surreal. Paintings of the denizens of the city, both human and otherwise. Those that were more than human would be well hidden behind the trappings of normal civilization, their other-worldliness only hinted at

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