Hands-On Art, Class #7, Period 1

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Lily looked all refreshed when the kids got to class today. "Hey, guys. Hope you had a good break week. And just in time for you guys to start stressing about Parents Weekend. That's nice."

Moving on. "Today we're learning about abstract art, which is basically some of the weirder art you'll see," she said. "You really started to see it in the nineteenth century, when people started paying more attention and artists could start getting wackier. This is the basis for cubism, which was a movement started by Picasso. So take that as you will."

She passed out a handout showing several examples. "So if you take a look at this, this is the fun stuff, where you might just get an entire canvas painted blue, or lines drawn on a blank sheet. It doesn't have to have any real subject matter. You're not looking at anything and trying to make it work. It's just completely creative. We're working strictly with paints and canvas today, so start slapping colors on there, see what happens."

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Abstractly!

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Angela Montenegro

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Wendy Watson

During the lecture

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You know what to do.

Re: During the lecture

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Art for art's sake? Completely devoid of any recognizable features?

"Oooooooh... pretty..."

Re: During the lecture

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Savannah grinned at Sokka. "It's cool, huh?"

Work!

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Make a pretty!

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[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

Splashing pretty bright colours on a canvas? Angela could definitely work with that, and picked out a nice sunshine yellow to kick it off.

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[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

This was easy enough. Ned picked up a paintbrush and just started slashing bright colors across his canvas. He hoped he didn't accidentally create a good picture when he was going for something not good.

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Peyton's canvas was mostly black with a few angry slashes of red.

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Claire watched Peyton work for a while. "Who pissed you off?" she finally asked, curious. She'd done the angry art thing enough to recognize it from someone else.

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Claire went to work splashing paint across the canvas, trying to get the colors to balance nicely. Abstract art wasn't her favorite, but she could do it for class.

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Peter started with blue and got to work. He hoped to stay abstract and not veer off into something prophetic.

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[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

Abstract art was a little too . . . um, abstract for Katchoo's taste most of the time, but she wasn't going to turn down the therapeutic effects of taking literal handfuls of paint and flinging them at a canvas today.

It was messy work, of course, and good thing she'd worn her grubby clothes today. She'd have had few compunctions about taking her shirt off and painting in jeans and her bra, except for that tattoo she was trying to hide.

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He worked from a very specific memory, black and gold and every other color but green.

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Sokka started by painting the entire canvas light blue, and worked from there, adding lines and shapes of other colors. He tried to keep the paint as wet and goopy as possible, so that everything all ran together in pretty ways and bits started dripping off the canvas onto the floor.

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[unddann]

Lola went with white lines on a white canvas. Which would probably seem more like cheating until you realized she was layering it in acrylic, and thus getting some interesting shadows out of varying thicknesses. Which hadn't actually been her plan, but, hey. She figured she could pretend it was.

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Savannah was having too much fun with reds and blues.

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Robin stared at the paper for a bit, then dropped a dollop of black paint on it. After a bit more staring, he stepped in it.

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[ashockingbitch]

Jenny started messing around with blacks and greys. Not to be depressing, although that probably was the end result.

Talk to Lily

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She's around, and sort of doodling.

Talk to the TA

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When she pings in.

Re: Talk to the TA

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Savannah was here and probably had paint on her nose.

OOC

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Warning that my availability will suck today, as I have limited access at my temp job, AND THEN I HAVE NEW CANON WHICH I WILL HAVE TO DEVOUR COMPULSIVELY. YAY MF BOOK.

Re: OOC

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asdjklafskl;afs I TOTALLY FORGOT THAT WAS OUT NOW.

WELL CRAP. MUST GET TODAY.