Art 101, Period 4, Class 4 (Monday 9-24)

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Steve was standing at the front of the art room and smiling as the students entered. "I hope everyone did their homework? Good." He gestured to a clothesline strung across the back wall. "If you'll please clip your work up before you sit down? And if you'd like to put up the work you did in class last week, too, that would be great."

The rest of the room was set up as it had been the week before, with drawing stations (one large enough for Sulley, of course) and sketch pads. However, instead of crayons and pastels, this week there were pencils: colored pencils, charcoal pencils of various degrees of hardness, and good old-fashioned orange #2 pencils. Steve was a traditionalist, what could he say? There was also a pencil sharpener and an eraser at each station. And at the front of the room, on a small table, was a bowl of fruit--grapes, pears, bananas, an an apple or two. Steve indicated the bowl. "Your subject," he told the class. "This is what we call a 'still life,' meaning nothing in the drawing or painting is alive. This is what you're going to draw today, whether in black and white or in color is your choice. And then your homework--yes, you're going to regularly have homework in this class, because I think art once a week is not enough art, but then this is what I love so maybe you disagree, I'm sorry--but anyway. Your homework is to assemble a still life of your own and draw it. You can use pencils or the crayons or pastels from last week, it's up to you. Any questions?"

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Sign In

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And tell what you did for homework!

Re: Sign In

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James Sullivan, a couple of pictures of a cityscape labelled 'Monstropolis'

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John Sheppard, several field landscapes cut off his flag football posters

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A.J., some pretty...well, awesome and colorful landscape of a section of the Rocky Bits at different parts of the day, with different weather factors

During the Lecture

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Pass notes, nap, doodle, etc.

Re: During the Lecture

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Sulley doodled some pictures of odd-looking humans.

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John drew schematics for a better paper airplane. He'd need it for his other classes.

Re: During the Lecture

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A.J. was already testing out the different pencils during lecture, marking the little strikes with what they were for reference point, and, yeah, A.J. was a total art nerd.

Re: During the Lecture

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Naminé doodled in the margins of her notes. Really, there were more doodles than notes.

Draw!

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Experiment with pencils, draw some fruit, talk amongst yourselves.

Re: Draw!

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Sulley tried his best at still life, but he was more of a crayon abstract kind of monster. The pictures were very rough and not great with the perspective.

Re: Draw!

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John was not so good at making the fruit look like fruit, but he was determined to try his best with the pencils.

Re: Draw!

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Ah, good old still life. A.J. produced his with a sort of weird studious attention, and was laying his fruit on well. He could respect the classics, after all.

Of course, if you looked closely enough, you could see that he'd 'taken a bite' out of an apple.

Re: Draw!

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For some reason, Jamie didn't feel challenged by the bowl of fruit.

So he reached behind his shirt and ripped something out and drew that instead (http://textileinnovations.com/images/mensbriefs_fruit006.jpg).

Re: Draw!

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"You know," Naminé observed with a smile. "There's something very postmodern about your take on this assignment."

Re: Draw!

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"You should see me draw cans of soup," Jamie said bouncing around somewhat in his seat and looking quite hyper. "I'm like... awesome at that."

Re: Draw!

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Mikey had intended to start off with pencils. Really.

But the gray got very boring, very quickly, and he soon decided to swap in the pencils for good old wax crayons again.

The result? A drawing of some diseased multicolored circles with graphite streaks throughout. And a banana.

Re: Draw!

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Naminé was discovering the colored pencils. She was starting to like them almost as much as her crayons.

Re: Draw!

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The fruit vaguely resembled fruit on Abigail's paper, especially once she added color.

Talk to the TA

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Once she pings in.

Re: Talk to the TA

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Naminé is here, and in a lovely mood. And for the first time, she isn't wearing her usual white (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/Rellyjean/namine/ivoryfloralprintchiffon.jpg) dress (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/Rellyjean/namine/wrast2001110156_prod_medium.jpg) to class.

Talk to the Teacher

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Steve was sitting at his desk, drawing the same bowl of fruit as the rest of the class, frowning slightly in concentration as he worked on getting the shading just right. Toward the end of class he was apparently satisfied with this endeavor and moved on to a half-finished sketch of a boy in a domino mask crawling under barbed wire. He worked on this until the end of class and for a while afterward.

However, before he'd sat down he'd written on the board behind him, INTERRUPT AT WILL, so he was totally approachable.

Re: Talk to the Teacher

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After class Jamie popped over to Steve's desk and tried to peer over his shoulder.

"You wanted to see me? By the way, I think I know where I've seen you before. Were you Hawkeye?"

Re: Talk to the Teacher

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"No, I wasn't Hawkeye," Steve sighed. Then he gestured to the painting of the Sears building and said, "That's very nice. Did you paint it?"

OOC

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For the world, it must not end.