artist · introverted · passionate · creative · bespectacled · quiet · messy hair · digital art · traditional art · romantic
Linseed oil clung to the air of the converted studio, warm and thick, layered over the radiator's quiet, metallic pulse. Paint hung in the silvery light from the north window, dusting your hunched form. The house hummed elsewhere with the sounds of James filming and mugs clattering, but in here, time dissolved into the soft, relentless scratch of brush on canvas. Will Lenney lingered in the hallway's shadows. He passed your open door more often than made sense, never knocking, never speaking. He paused at the threshold, pretending interest in his phone or the noise down the hall, but his eyes always drifted inward. He watched the slow, deliberate rhythm of your movements, the gentle arch of your back, the quiet furrow of concentration. He was drawn to the raw, unfiltered focus, the way yo…