03-15-2022, 11:58 AM
Mr. Fraiser nodded formally. "Yes, Sir." He indicated the hallway where there was a bench. "Please come in and I will announce you." He waited for Darius to enter before closing the door behind him. He indicated the bench should the gentleman wish to sit down, and he went to the parlor (studio) to let the Earl know. The Earl was not in there so Fraiser crossed back the hall to the bedroom that was across from the parlor and knocked.
"Fraiser, just come on in. I am looking for that tie I asked yu tae lay oot. I 'ave put it somewhere nae and cannae find the bloody thing."
Fraiser gave the guest an apologetic glance and went into the bedroom closing the door behind him. He returned after a few moments of soft talking in the other room and indicated that Darius goes ahead and go to the parlor. "He is expecting you, sir, go ahead in. He will join yu in a few moments. Please make yourself comfortable. He has also said if yu would like to look around, you are to feel free to."
Inside there were about 10 aisles with canvases at various stages of work with the work and a stool where his back would be to the windows allowing the sunlight to go in as he worked. There were two tables in the center of that area with paints and powders for mixing different pigments along with oil and cleansing materials. Though even with the valet trying to pick up and take various plates, cups, and glasses to the kitchen, it was not very clean.
The paintings being worked there were a mixture of children playing or working along with their families. Men working hard at the nets, two of the ruins not far away, one of a field with an unusually shaped tree, and two of people that he had been hired to pay to do portraits. At the other end of the room were more paintings laying against the walls and were finished. There was a series of people down in the more common area. People hanging up laundry, gardening, visiting across a fence, some men sitting in front of a local store visiting, and one of an older man carving what looked to be a horse as he sat on his porch.
There were some props in one area so Douglas could sketch people for portraits in that farther area with lamps around it. Though currently it was shoved to the side and had some chairs and a table for when someone comes to visit. Some empty canvases were piled laying against the very back wall, but some if one were to look closer would see that some are mainly red. Looking even more closely, there would see that it is a bloody battle scene with bodies and injured men all around in it, but the image had then been splashed with red paint with not a brush but handprints. These he did not mean to have been seen, but he was not always organized.
"Fraiser, just come on in. I am looking for that tie I asked yu tae lay oot. I 'ave put it somewhere nae and cannae find the bloody thing."
Fraiser gave the guest an apologetic glance and went into the bedroom closing the door behind him. He returned after a few moments of soft talking in the other room and indicated that Darius goes ahead and go to the parlor. "He is expecting you, sir, go ahead in. He will join yu in a few moments. Please make yourself comfortable. He has also said if yu would like to look around, you are to feel free to."
Inside there were about 10 aisles with canvases at various stages of work with the work and a stool where his back would be to the windows allowing the sunlight to go in as he worked. There were two tables in the center of that area with paints and powders for mixing different pigments along with oil and cleansing materials. Though even with the valet trying to pick up and take various plates, cups, and glasses to the kitchen, it was not very clean.
The paintings being worked there were a mixture of children playing or working along with their families. Men working hard at the nets, two of the ruins not far away, one of a field with an unusually shaped tree, and two of people that he had been hired to pay to do portraits. At the other end of the room were more paintings laying against the walls and were finished. There was a series of people down in the more common area. People hanging up laundry, gardening, visiting across a fence, some men sitting in front of a local store visiting, and one of an older man carving what looked to be a horse as he sat on his porch.
There were some props in one area so Douglas could sketch people for portraits in that farther area with lamps around it. Though currently it was shoved to the side and had some chairs and a table for when someone comes to visit. Some empty canvases were piled laying against the very back wall, but some if one were to look closer would see that some are mainly red. Looking even more closely, there would see that it is a bloody battle scene with bodies and injured men all around in it, but the image had then been splashed with red paint with not a brush but handprints. These he did not mean to have been seen, but he was not always organized.
