Hands-On Art, Class #4, Period 1

[slapbetcommish.livejournal.com]

When the students arrived in class today, they'd find several possibly familiar-looking reprints of some paintings tacked up around the room, and a Lily waiting for everyone to show before speaking.

"Hi, guys, Hope those of you who spent any part of the weekend in the clinic are feeling better, or are at least on enough pain meds to not know the difference. That was a joke," she said quickly. "Drugs are bad." Really.

"You may have noticed our lovely room decorations today. These are some pretty well-known works, some by more famous artists, some not-so-famous, but I tried to go for a good range of different styles. Some of them we'll be studying a little about in class, later, too," Lily went on. "This first one here is Vase with Twelve Sunflowers by Van Goh, who was a little uncreative in naming that one. And then we have Water Lilies, by Claude Monet, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Seurat, and yes, I think that one woman has a bustle, not a ghetto booty. There's The Scream by Edvard Munch, and finally, Nighthawks by Edward Hopper.

"They've all got different styles and were all painted in different ways, so this is more of you trying to find more of your own personal style by choosing one of these paintings to recreate in your own way. Remember when you tried out some new mediums? Hopefully you found something you're comfortable with, so feel free to use whatever you want. Go wild. I have no problem with you taking your work home to work on, either, as long as it comes back here next week so I can see it.

"Oh," and Lily added, almost as an afterthought. "We're also kind of sort of having homework now, sorry. It's easy, I swear. For next week, bring in a picture or a really really good mental image of something you'd maybe consider for a good still life piece. See, easy."

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[slapbetcommish.livejournal.com]

Talk all you want, just be working at the same time.

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[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

Angela was pretty sure she wanted her version of Van Gogh to be completely mixed media. She hadn't got much further than that in her planning process, though.

She searched out a tub of masking fluid and watercolours and started on a ground. Once she was sure of that part, the rest should come.

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[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

Scream it was then. It suited her mood. Hers was rather more vibrant with brighter reds and darker blacks and the face a whole hell of a lot more... demonic... with other similar faces in the background.

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[repeterpetrelli.livejournal.com]

Peter glanced over at Peyton. "Hey. How's it going?"

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[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

"Oh, just swimmingly," she said, adding another violent slash of black, then looked up at him apologetically. "Sorry."

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[repeterpetrelli.livejournal.com]

Peter noticed the overall theme of her painting. "Guess it's too late to offer any help you might need after the weekend?"

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[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

She ducked her head. "Never too late, I guess. I just... I have really really bad luck with guys. Though I have to admit I sank to all new lows on Saturday."

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[repeterpetrelli.livejournal.com]

"It's a Fandom thing," Peter told her. "Don't blame yourself."

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[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, well, I swore off guys for a while before I came here," she explained. "And Saturday, well... you and everybody'd been telling me what a good guy Dean was and I'd had a little to drink..."

She tugged her turtle neck up a little higher. "Guess it was just the Universe telling me I shouldn't go back on my decisions."

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[repeterpetrelli.livejournal.com]

"Doubles happen," Peter said. "Sometimes it's good, sometimes not. There's no way you could've known."

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[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

"Next time, I will," she said. "Not that there's going to be a next time. Not for a long while probably."

She slashed at her painting a little more. "God, I don't even want to run into him or Alec again. I'll be way too embarrassed. He apologized to me on radio, you know? And why? It wasn't his fault."

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[repeterpetrelli.livejournal.com]

"'cause he's a good guy?" Peter offered.

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[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, he is," Peyton said with a sigh.

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[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

Katchoo was never going to be able to see that Munch painting again without being forced to think of that stupid, stupid Macaulay Culkin movie, so that one was right out.

If she decided she was going to recreate the Seurat piece in a distinctly non-pointillist way, well . . . Lily using the phrase "ghetto booty" had given her ideas, and Katchoo was nothing if not perverse, so . . .

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[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

Ned peered at the Nighthawks work and chose it just for the simplicity of the design.

Was stick figure art a good medium?

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[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

Claire chose Nighthawks and, considering, decided to redo it in charcoal with collage elements. She found a stack of magazines and started scavenging through them for pictures that could work.

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[repeterpetrelli.livejournal.com]

Peter went for Water Lilies. It was peaceful. He liked that.

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[unddann]

Lola was all over the Seurat, and playing with oil pastels. She decided to give the painting a good, classic, German flare, which mostly meant making everything very dark and not quite in proportion.

She . . . actually had no idea if that made the piece more German or not, but if anyone asked, that's what she'd tell them.

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[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

Alice was now attempting Water Lilies in light, sketchy colored pencil. Which was very different from the thick painted feel of the original. She was curious what would result.

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[notahostage]

Since everyone and their uncle at had some point done a version of Nighthawks, Wendy decided it was time for hers.

With zombies. Everything was better with zombies.

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[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Cal felt naturally drawn to Nighthawks, which he figured might be interesting since his 'style' (if he could claim to even have one) better suited some of the other pictures. So he was hard at work; he didn't trust himself to get the style with paints, so he was working with colored pencils, and was trying to think of new takes on the patrons of the diner, one including a young man in a funeral jacket, with an ice cream sundae...

He was glad to have this class today; drawing was so cathartic.

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[shiniernyours.livejournal.com]

The figures in Seurat's Afternoon came out more jerky and angular as Bender concentrated on his etching. He knew what curved lines were, he just didn't happen to want any today.

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[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

Inara started working on her version of Water Lilies, using pastels and watercolors, and not caring that her cheeks, hair, and fingers were smudged with chalk.

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[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Robin decided to try the flowers and vase.

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[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka was, of course, most comfortable applying black ink to paper with a stiff brush, so that's the medium he chose for his re-creation of The Scream.

It... didn't turn out very well. The medium had nothing to do with it; Sokka just sucked at art.