Set Me Free
“This time, I brought my easel and set it up in the frozen grass in front of Suzanna’s statue. In the light from the setting sun, she glowed gold.
I sketched her directly onto the primed canvas, then daubed paints onto my palette, mixing up a deep green. I filled in the space all around her, slowly adding texture to create a background of pine trees. I painted her pedestal next. At its base, I included the pot of carnations Jonas Whittaker had left her last night and, of course, the white li...lies.
Her long hooded cloak I kept in white, as if it were still made of stone. But instead of cold ivory curls beneath it, I painted flaming red spirals. Her face I did last, because it was the most important and also the most difficult. I held her self-portrait for Owen in my mind—her tempestuous mouth, her clear hazel eyes—as if I could combine the way she saw herself with the way everyone else saw her.
Eventually, the sky darkened, and it became harder and harder to see her, especially her eyes.MoreLess
I sketched her directly onto the primed canvas, then daubed paints onto my palette, mixing up a deep green. I filled in the space all around her, slowly adding texture to create a background of pine trees. I painted her pedestal next. At its base, I included the pot of carnations Jonas Whittaker had left her last night and, of course, the white li...lies.
Her long hooded cloak I kept in white, as if it were still made of stone. But instead of cold ivory curls beneath it, I painted flaming red spirals. Her face I did last, because it was the most important and also the most difficult. I held her self-portrait for Owen in my mind—her tempestuous mouth, her clear hazel eyes—as if I could combine the way she saw herself with the way everyone else saw her.
Eventually, the sky darkened, and it became harder and harder to see her, especially her eyes.MoreLess
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