People are always telling me that my work is too dark. So I've put up this sunnier story, but even it has a shadow, as its original publisher – a fine Atlantic Canadian literary magazine called the Gaspereau Review – is no longer in business. ---------------- It was a simple enough thing and that thing was simply this: Edmund Kelley was a gentleman. Of course his mom called him her 'little gentleman', as in 'Oh Edmund, you are my perfect little gentleman,' which did seem to hold to a certain logic that these type of things often follow, considering her affection for him and the fact that he was, after all, only ten years old. Still, Edmund himself was not particularly fond of the diminutive aspect of that title. Gentleman was enough; gentleman summed up the whole thing rather nicely, thank you. He was definitely a more refined version of your average child. He lived in a state of perpetual Sunday m
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Funny. Didn't even occur to me to use the British use of "tea" even though I grew up in England.
ReplyDeleteI love your line drawings. I get bogged down a lot with my drawings trying to squeeze in detail and tons of shading. Then when I am done I wish I had just left it with simple lines and implied details. The drawings breathe more that way.
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Ha yes, great expression and gesture. Like the empty plate set up too. Waiting for tea indeed, cool. ...:::o
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ReplyDeleteLove the idea of waiting. I like it.
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