Hands-On Art, Class #2, Period 1

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Once everyone had shown up to class, Lily smiled and said, "Glad to see you decided to come back. And really quick, we have a new TA as of today, so if you need help or if I'm too scary, you can always ask Savannah." Because, of course, Lily was terrifying.

"Today's another easy week, sort of. We're going to be talking about different mediums that artists use," she said, passing out a handout listing the different types. "Every different type of medium will give you a different look or effect. People tend to pick a favorite, something they like to use more than the others. You might like to do landscapes and find that oil paints work better for them, or that pastels give them more of the look they want, or maybe they just want to draw in pencil. It's all up to the artist.

"So what we're doing today is experimenting. I've got a bunch of moddable supplies up here. You want oil paints, watercolors, charcoals, pencils, we've got it, along with some different materials to work on. I've got paper and some smaller canvases to work off of. Just don't use school property or your fellow students. That'll be a detention and I'd like to not give those out," she said. "We've got a wide range of artists here, so if you're new to this stuff, just find something that looks interesting and try it. If you're not new, use something you don't usually work with, or something you'd like to try. I don't even care what it is you paint or draw. If you need inspiration, look at your desk and draw that. We're just thinking outside the box a little and getting to know what you have to work with. And I totes don't care if you talk while you work, as long as you work." She paused, looking a little confused. "I have no idea where I picked up that word."

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As you do!

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Wendy Watson

During the lecture

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It's sort of an actual lecture for once! As questions if you want, too.

Re: During the lecture

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Sokka raised a hand. Because it was sitting right there, and he couldn't just let it go and pass up something handed to him like that.

"If we're too awesome for mediums, can we have a large?"

Re: During the lecture

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Ned took a few notes but mostly just studied the worksheet. Anything that he didn't write was far more descriptive. And neater.

Re: During the lecture

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Ca listened, but his mind was already going to the splatter-style modern-esque pieces he was going to make as he experiments. He was trying to come up with the most BS explanations for them that made him sound all artsy-fartsy.

Re: During the lecture

[unddann]

Lola was tempted to make some sort of smart assed comment about how limiting them to not using each other as canvasses was stunting their creative development and possibly a form of artistic censorship.

But she didn't know all the right words in English, and didn't feel like looking them up.

Probably just as well.

Re: During the lecture

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

Inara listened to the lecture, eager to try out some new materials.

Work!

[slapbetcommish.livejournal.com]

Work, talk, go ahead and experiment.

Re: Work!

[notahostage]

Wendy suspected that going with her preferred oils would be considered cheating so she looked through the supplies until she found a stack of acetate sheets and the gouaches.

Well, she'd always liked old-school animation, so she retreated back to her work area with her booty and a sketchpad.

Re: Work!

[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

Angela picked out some of the more vibrant shades of acrylic and started with some bold shapes. Not that she knew what she was drawing, or anything. That could be figured out later.

Re: Work!

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

Katchoo looked over everything, then (with a bit of a shudder) decided to forgo the watercolors. Just to be on the safe side. She ended up with a canvas and a couple of smallish buckets of acrylic glaze; handfuls of the glaze got thrown randomly onto the canvas, and Katchoo just started poking it around with her fingers, making the colors blend and pretty much trying to find out what would happen.

She decided she liked the feel of it.

Re: Work!

[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

Claire was almost overwhelmed by the number of choices she had, but in the end she went for the charcoals and started sketching the profile of the person sitting closest to her.

She might add some watercolors for color later.

Re: Work!

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Well... they were supposed to experiment, right?

Sokka started doing a little bit of this, a little bit of that, and just generally creating bits of art out of whichever supplies he happened to grab at the time.

As he finished each piece, he glued, taped, or pinned it to his first project of the day, which had been a drawing of a duck done with puffy paint on corkboard.

The result was very... Well, it was definitely "mixed media". And probably art.

Re: Work!

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

Ned didn't want to bite off more than he could chew so he grabbed the watercolors. That way, if he got them on his clothes, he could get them out in one wash.

He hoped.

He tried painting a house but it kind of turned out lopsided so he turned it into a big brown spot. And that eventually morphed into a big black spot with yellow spots around it.

It was...sort of a planetary system.

Re: Work!

[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

There wasn't much Peyton hadn't worked with, but watercolors definitely were low on her list so she took some back to her desk and played with them. Maybe she could turn out something Meg would like.

Re: Work!

[repeterpetrelli.livejournal.com]

Peter had never worked with oils before, so he decided to give it a try.

If he seemed a little tense it was because he was really hoping his powers wouldn't kick in.

Re: Work!

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

Liir looked at the various supplies and pulled out a string of acrylic paint as well as a couple of different brushes. Then he set to work, occasionally using his fingers, occasionally using the brushes.

Re: Work!

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Although he made sure to keep himself appearing very serious and driven by inspiration, Cal was just being a total nerd and having way too much fun with this. A little splash of watercolor here, a few swirls of acrylic, a happy little tree in oil all on one canvas.

Re: Work!

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Bender grabbed an array of pencils and started drawing. He switched out one pencil for another. And another. And...

It was a complex mesh on angular lines of various thickness. Bender thought it looked like all right. If you held it at an angle.

Re: Work!

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Robin got some water colors, and then, grabbed some pencils too. Maybe he could combine them.

Re: Work!

[unddann]

Oh yeah, it was all about the pastels.

Even if Lola did keep forgetting that they smeared and blended just as well onto her fingers as they did onto her paper, and kept doing things like scratching her nose or rubbing her ear or shoving her hair out of her face.

End result? Well, she hadn't said anything about not using onesself as a canvas, right?

Talk to the TA

[slapbetcommish.livejournal.com]

Once she pings in.

Re: Talk to the TA

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

Savannah was here, playing with the charcoals and ready to help anyone that needed it.

Talk to Lily

[slapbetcommish.livejournal.com]

She's here before and after class. Also, during. Shocking, huh?

OOC

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I will be around today, but may be in "DAMMIT I FORGOT SOMETHING *FLEES APARTMENT*" mode. Just a warning.

Re: OOC

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I'll be off and on until 5:30 pm EST as it's getting near to fiscal year end and work is insane.