The Study of Sherlock

(Sherlock's Study, C.nick Arach, 2010)

This sketch is from the "Musgrave Ritual" a short story from "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes". It depicts Sherlock's study as described by Watson in the beginning of the story:

"But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs. I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime, and when Holmes, in one of his queer humors, would sit in an arm-chair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges, and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V. R. done in bullet-pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it."

That's it for now,

C.nick Arach

Flora's sunny afternoon

(Flora's Sunny Afternoon, C.nick Arach 2010)

This sketch was inspired by "The Turn of the Screw" a novella written by Henry James. This 'ghost' story is about a governess who takes charge of two seemingly perfect children, but then the 'ghosts'of two former servants start appearing. Are there ghosts? Or is she mad? Literary critics are still debating.

This sketch is of the lake scene where Miss Jessel watches a playing Flora.

C.nick Arach

The fair Emily, a Knight's Tale

(The Fair Emily, C.nick Arach 2010)

These sketches come from the story "The Knight's Tale" from the "The Canterbury Tales" .

It is about two cousins who are prisoners in a tower that looks out upon the courtyard. One day they chance to see the fair Emily who is out strolling in the beauty of the day. Instantly they both fall in love with her (yeah right!) and a feud breaks out between them. This feud ends in death (most sensible, really).

C.nick Arach