Discovering Emily (2004)
“Dede said once she and Emily had returned home. “Now that you have seen real art perhaps you will keep your mouth shut about matters you know nothing about.”
Emily didn’t say a word. Her mind was full of confusing thoughts. She seethed at the Smiths’ snobbery, and their paintings had been disappointing, but Dede was right. The Smiths were real artists, and Emily wasn’t. She would never be able to paint like they could. She didn’t want to, she told herself. She wasn’t interested in their phony, ...well-behaved landscapes. Despite all of this, seeing real paintings stirred something inside Emily — something that made her want to race up the stairs to her easel, pick up her pencils and brushes and create something of her own.
She made herself climb slowly up the stairs to her room and not look at the easel that stood by the window. How simple and joyful it had been to do the sketch of Carlow, and how happy she had been to have art lessons. She wished she hadn’t heard of the Smiths and their snobby painting ideas.MoreLess
Emily didn’t say a word. Her mind was full of confusing thoughts. She seethed at the Smiths’ snobbery, and their paintings had been disappointing, but Dede was right. The Smiths were real artists, and Emily wasn’t. She would never be able to paint like they could. She didn’t want to, she told herself. She wasn’t interested in their phony, ...well-behaved landscapes. Despite all of this, seeing real paintings stirred something inside Emily — something that made her want to race up the stairs to her easel, pick up her pencils and brushes and create something of her own.
She made herself climb slowly up the stairs to her room and not look at the easel that stood by the window. How simple and joyful it had been to do the sketch of Carlow, and how happy she had been to have art lessons. She wished she hadn’t heard of the Smiths and their snobby painting ideas.MoreLess
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