Hands-On Art, Class #6, Period 1

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"Welcome back, guys," Lily greeted the class once they'd arrived. "Hope everyone had a nice weekend. Plus Monday. There's really no good opening on a Tuesday, you know? Anyway, today we're working on landscapes, so I hope you all brought in your pictures. Landscapes might be the simplest idea that's sometimes just really hard to actually do. It's not just 'draw this house and clouds and a sun' like you did in kindergarten, though I have seen a couple of kindergartners with some mighty fine talent in my time. No, you pretty much look outside and paint that. It's scenery. It's lakes and mountains and forests and trees. You got some experience the other week with the video and all the happy trees, so this is a good way to put those to use.

"And really, the reason this is harder than it looks is because the lakes and mountains and blah blah blah can be hard to get right, and if you're a perfectionist you're going to probably want to spend a lot of time wanting to just take your paintbrush and go like this to the canvas," Lily said, gesturing wildly with her arm. "Don't do that. I know it's hard to grade on artistic expression, but that's just sort of an emotional seizure and that'll knock you down a few points.

"So have fun, remember you can turn in anything from last week you still owe, and you don't need to bring anything in next week. Have at it."

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Re: During the lecture

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Sokka had already started doodling a house and clouds and a sun in his notebook before Lily started talking, and he hastily scribbled it out when she said not to do that.