Mr. Darcy!!! The ultimate Mr. Mysterious! tall, dark, handsome, and snarky! How can a clever girl resist?! I finished this the other day and I'm not crazy about it. I like the facial expressions, but there are so many construction and composition problems here. I'm going to call it the first draft, and make a second painting. I love this subject matter. I have read P and P three or four times, and have seen every movie adaptation available out there. I remember the first time I read Pride and Prejudice, I thought the first couple of chapters were boring until she met Mr. Darcy at a ball and he slighted her!!! what?! That's not what's supposed to happen in a dressed up romance novel! I was hooked! Oh the tension! The sex!
Sometimes when I paint or cut out shadow puppets I have a period piece, costume drama going on in the background. My boyfriend usually sits on the other side of the room and scowls at the the girlyness of it all. One day we came up with another name for these types of movies. We call these movies CLINKERS. These movies are called Clinkers, because there is a lot of clinking of tea cups that happens. This is what Clinker dialogue sounds like:
CONSTABLE MYLES: "What?! out of class marriage?!" (clink, clink, clink)
MRS. EDWARD JAMES: "I know! I can't believe it! Well, it's not my place to say but..." (clink, clink, clink)
CONSTABLE MYLES: "Oh I know! A spot of tea?"
MRS. EDWARD JAMES: "Yes please, and those lovely biscuits." (clink, clink, clink)
I love me some Clinkers.