Like A Cowboy by Charlene Bright

Author:Charlene Bright [Bright, Charlene]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Christian Stories, Faith Based, Inspirational Reads, Love Inspired, Bachelor, Single Mother, Hearts Desire, Clean & Wholesome, Life-Changes, Second Chance Reunion, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Lifetime Love, Romantic Schemes, Love-Family & Forever, Action & Adventure, Small Town & Rural Area, Beautiful & Feisty, Cowboy & Western Romance, Animals-Horses & Cattle, Wild At Heart Cowboys Series
Publisher: Red River Romance
Published: 2019-09-06T04:00:00+00:00

13

Noah couldn’t believe his eyes as he stared at the canvas in front of him. With a few brush strokes of a shade he’d blended a couple of times to get the right effect, his father’s face had already begun to take shape. Of course, he had a long way to go. It was just a base, the skull without flesh, but he could already see where the nose would protrude and the eyes would sink in, and he could imagine the shadows that played over it to put life into the image.

“I thought it would take so much more to start to see something real here,” he said in awe.

Zoe rose from her stool and came over to look, smiling instantly. “No, it really starts to come together fast when you’ve got the right idea and good technique. For someone who hasn’t trained and learned a lot about playing with perspective and lighting, you did a good job here, just putting the first layer down. It’s going to make everything from this point forward even simpler.”

He couldn’t see how any of this was going to be simple. It was one thing to picture what would flesh out the portrait, but to actually make it happen was something else entirely. “So, what do I go for next?”

“That depends,” she told him, tapping her finger on her chin. It left a little gray mark from a dot of paint she had on her fingertip, and Noah found it endearing. But he shoved the thought aside instantly. He’d made a promise, as much to himself as to Zoe, and he was going to stand by it. His instinct was to grab her and pull her into his lap, wipe the spot of color away, and then taste her again. The cinnamon and floral blend on her tongue had stuck with him from last night, and it had given him another fitful night’s sleep, his thoughts continuing to betray him with images so intimate it made his groin tight, and he couldn’t get comfortable.

But he’d promised not to make another move, and he would hold to that now. “That depends,” she said thoughtfully. “When I look between your painting and the picture, the first thing I see is the slight cleft in your father’s chin, so that’s what I’d work on. But it depends on what you see most prominently that tells you the order you should use.”

Noah thought about that, and he realized that it was the shadows beneath his father’s cheekbones, showing their angled prominence, that he first noticed. With a nod, he studied the image and the shape he’d painted, and then he started digging through colors, looking for the right ones to blend to give the effect of a sharp angle without making the shadow too dark. He tested several colors, and finally, he found a dark brown with a pale yellow that blended well so he could use one of the thinner brushes to create the effect he wanted.

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