On thanks
I am a chopsy mare most of the time. It is not often I am lost for words but I sat silent for a full quarter of an hour while staring at the wondrous picture that Meladara has made for me.
My brain kind of shuts down in the face of such generosity - that my friend has taken time out of her hectic life to make something with such care and skill - ever worked with watercolours? They are tricksy little beasts. But Mel has them dancing at her command. Look at the subtlety of shadow - the painting is so dark but is without the creeping ominousness that most dark pictures have - and there is a tiny nude Hermione lying like a pearl, like Venus, quite literally under a shadowy Snape's nose.
And the forest - can't you feel the forest? The press of trees crowding round her. So dark and cool and still...
So I am delighted with my present in that deep down way that makes me know that I will return to marvel at this picture time and time and time again.
Thank you seems so inadequate sometimes but... thank you Mel
xx
My brain kind of shuts down in the face of such generosity - that my friend has taken time out of her hectic life to make something with such care and skill - ever worked with watercolours? They are tricksy little beasts. But Mel has them dancing at her command. Look at the subtlety of shadow - the painting is so dark but is without the creeping ominousness that most dark pictures have - and there is a tiny nude Hermione lying like a pearl, like Venus, quite literally under a shadowy Snape's nose.
And the forest - can't you feel the forest? The press of trees crowding round her. So dark and cool and still...
So I am delighted with my present in that deep down way that makes me know that I will return to marvel at this picture time and time and time again.
Thank you seems so inadequate sometimes but... thank you Mel
xx