Hold Back the Night
“Forthrightness might be fine in the environment where she had been raised, but in this setting it only raised brows and set tongues to buzzing. She became somewhat more guarded in her ways, but even so there were times when some innocent remark would set a roomful of fellow students to roaring while Domini looked around her in bewilderment. At such times her natural resilience stood her in good stead.
Gradually she came to realize that her upbringing had been unique, not merely because her ...father was a great and famous artist but because he was a thoroughly unconventional man. She had been brought up as a child of nature because Papa was a child of nature; for all his genius, a man as rustic and unsophisticated as the great crude stone he kept in his courtyard.
During those weeks she filled several portfolios with charcoal sketches, still life studies, vivid watercolours. She painted a few canvases in oils and acrylics and stored them carefully on their stretchers, sure they would someday be important.MoreLess
Gradually she came to realize that her upbringing had been unique, not merely because her ...father was a great and famous artist but because he was a thoroughly unconventional man. She had been brought up as a child of nature because Papa was a child of nature; for all his genius, a man as rustic and unsophisticated as the great crude stone he kept in his courtyard.
During those weeks she filled several portfolios with charcoal sketches, still life studies, vivid watercolours. She painted a few canvases in oils and acrylics and stored them carefully on their stretchers, sure they would someday be important.MoreLess
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