[ Another book on Gerard's bed, this one with thicker pages, good quality for watercolours. And a nice palette of colours for it and a set of natural hair brushes. On the first page a brief introduction to how to use them, from lighter to darker, create washes, here's an example of a colour palette, be careful of colour saturation... There's no other instructions this time, it's quite enough to learn a new medium that can be temperamental.
There's ill advised notion about the book that returns to Gerard a little while later with scenes from 80's and 90's London, Oxford uni and its various hallways with a note on the side of the page saying "I did not study here, I grew up here." These are no tourist perspectives with Big Ben and Union Jack but definitely images created from memory, street corners, kids playing football on the road, skinny lads smoking cigarettes outside a pub. There's also a small portrait of a man crouched over his worktable, reading and writing busily notes on a paper. He's seen from behind with wide but sagged shoulders, an ill fitting jacket with elbow patches and receding hairline. Text under it says "Father must have died like this - doing what he loves the most."
There's a few very loosely painted watercolour pieces slipped in between the pages, done on different paper. These are almost dream-like, translucent colours, the scenery imagined rather than painted from memory. A metal frame bed in a limestone cave, floating on a mirror surfaced lake. A pod of London Eye floating above the city. And then something new: a tree house that seems to be floating above jungle with winding staircases and arching doorways that looks over a foggy mountain view with a text under it saying: "For new experiences?"
The rest of the pages in the book are filled with pictures of derivations of the vampires, some of them nothing but teeth, some of them with muzzles, a study of a mouth full of sharp teeth and some questionmarks. How does that even work. A too long tongue pierced by said teeth. ]
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There's ill advised notion about the book that returns to Gerard a little while later with scenes from 80's and 90's London, Oxford uni and its various hallways with a note on the side of the page saying "I did not study here, I grew up here." These are no tourist perspectives with Big Ben and Union Jack but definitely images created from memory, street corners, kids playing football on the road, skinny lads smoking cigarettes outside a pub. There's also a small portrait of a man crouched over his worktable, reading and writing busily notes on a paper. He's seen from behind with wide but sagged shoulders, an ill fitting jacket with elbow patches and receding hairline. Text under it says "Father must have died like this - doing what he loves the most."
There's a few very loosely painted watercolour pieces slipped in between the pages, done on different paper. These are almost dream-like, translucent colours, the scenery imagined rather than painted from memory. A metal frame bed in a limestone cave, floating on a mirror surfaced lake. A pod of London Eye floating above the city. And then something new: a tree house that seems to be floating above jungle with winding staircases and arching doorways that looks over a foggy mountain view with a text under it saying: "For new experiences?"
The rest of the pages in the book are filled with pictures of derivations of the vampires, some of them nothing but teeth, some of them with muzzles, a study of a mouth full of sharp teeth and some questionmarks. How does that even work. A too long tongue pierced by said teeth. ]