Light of Her Own by Callaghan Carrie

Author:Callaghan, Carrie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Amberjack Publishing
Published: 2018-09-07T16:00:00+00:00

WILLEM MOVED IN with his single pine trunk that evening, and in the morning, he was waiting at the breakfast table before the rest of the household arrived. Hendrik rubbed his eyes, making his pimple-afflicted skin even redder, and Davit coughed, trying to disguise his newly changing voice. Judith noticed mold on the cheese Carolein had placed on the table, and she grabbed the plate so she could slice off the green smudge. She hoped Willem had not seen.

After the meal, she led the three apprentices to her workshop. She stood at the threshold watching the morning’s haze illuminate her tools, like a curtain had lifted. The easels, gray grinding stone, brushes, and props were so beautiful in repose. She ought to paint a workshop scene, she thought. She would love to capture the tender detail hidden in her well-loved tools. But no, those scenes weren’t what sold. Not for her, at least.

“Let’s get started.”

She let Willem spend the day refreshing his sketching; tomorrow she would task him with working through the copybook of essential body parts. She suspected his focus on naturalist work with Jacob de Gheyn had been at the expense of human anatomy. She would fix that. In the meantime, she needed to focus on getting a few of her own paintings ready for sale, and maybe she would paint one more revelry piece. She should find Gerard Snellings, now that Shrovetide was past. He might have more time to sit with her. She had enjoyed painting him, enjoyed replicating the spirit in his eyes and the lines alongside his mouth, his combination of joy and wear. Every time she painted, she fell a little in love with her subject, snared by the crevices and shadows and twitches that made the person. Painting meant focusing on the details, much like love. So each of her paintings became, in a way, an act of adoration. She would send Hendrik out later to find Gerard.

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