Blank Page Art Club, Art Classroom, Monday, 1/19

[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

Claire had been relieved to hear radio that morning. If the phones were screwy, it meant Cal probably hadn't intentionally not called her back.

She hoped.

She guessed she would find out during the meeting, anyhow. Right. She waited for most of the people who had signed up before starting to talk.

"Hey, I'm Claire. Thanks for signing up for this. It's really just to hang out and make stuff, and maybe we'll do an art show at the end of term if people are into it. I am way, way open to other ideas, though, so let me know if you have any.

"I was going to ask people to, like, bring something they were proud of to share today? But my phone was sort of blowing up at me yesterday so I never sent the email. So that's next week. This week, I got out all the drawing supplies" -- she gestured at a table heaped with pencils, crayons, ink and brushes, and other moddable media -- "so I thought we could just do that during the meeting. Maybe pair up and draw each other if you really feel creative? And like I said, next week we should each bring something and we can do show and tell."

"Oh, and Ms. Aldrin is our sponsor. She rocks."

Comments

Sign in [1/19]

[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

Artistically!

Re: Sign in [1/19]

[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

Angela Montenegro

Mingle + Chat [1/19]

[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

Also artistically. Life can be a work of art, y'know.

Re: Mingle + Chat [1/19]

[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

As much as yesterday had been pretty amusing, Angela was actually happy to do a bit of the more normal form of socialisation today. The face to face sort, where she might actually know who it was she was talking to. That was nice, too.

Re: Mingle + Chat [1/19]

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

Pssht, mingling. Katchoo was mostly only here because Claire had talked her into it.

Although talking to someone might be better for her than stewing over how the hell she'd ended up getting roped into a regular radio gig with that stupid ditz Lacey, or fuming over the phone system. (Or flailing over the phone system, in the case of that message from Francine, which she was now realizing was probably not meant for her, in which case it was right back to fuming.)

She'd gone for charcoals today; she liked charcoals. They were messy. Also, dark.

Re: Mingle + Chat [1/19]

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

Liir knew he was most certainly a beginner compared to the others here, but he smiled around and hoped no one minded that someone just rather interested as opposed to skilled had decided to come.

Re: Mingle + Chat [1/19]

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

As the mingling occurred, Cal couldn't help notice that the ratio of artsy males to artsy females was the type of ratio he could approve of. And then he tried to pretend he didn't think like that at all.

Re: Mingle + Chat [1/19]

[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

Claudia decided that today she'd wear an outfit that would guarantee she didn't look pregnant. Two messages about the same thing were making her a little paranoid.

So she was wearing a belly-baring black t-shirt with red and black bedazzled gemstones sprinkled all over it, black leather pants, black stilleto heels, and more silver bracelets than could be considered strictly necessary. Her hair was plaited into a dozen slender braids, all fastened with bright red butterflies. On anyone else it would look like they charged by the hour. On Claudia it looked great.

She looked around the room, anxious to meet her fellow artists.

Re: Mingle + Chat [1/19]

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

Alice was going to work on drawing her shoes. And then drawing happy faces, for her shoes, and giving them arms and legs and maybe they should have a house, as well.

Draw! [1/19]

[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

Hopefully not your weapon. Sketch, doodle, draw portraits, whatever.

Re: Draw! [1/19]

[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

Angela poked through the stack of drawing implements for a pen that worked and felt comfortable to use. The comfort part was important when it came to these things.

She might've been running through potential sketch subjects as she did that.

Re: Draw! [1/19]

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

Savannah was relaxed and sketching away.

Re: Draw! [1/19]

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Doodles Cal could do. Doodles Cal was actually pretty decent at.

It was when he started to make them more than doodles that he got into trouble and realized he had no talent, so he was trying to keep it to a minimum. Mostly, he was drawing a lot of vague landscapes of Detroit and Detroit related things. Like cars.

Which lead to an eventual sketch of a car sinking into the broken ice of the Detroit River.

Oh, the ways his brain worked....

Re: Draw! [1/19]

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

Yep, charcoals -- with lots of broad, rapid, almost haphazard smudging work with her fingers.

What was shaping up on Katchoo's paper was a very rough version of something that, with further work and done with colors, might end up looking like this (http://www.strangersinparadise.com/images/gallery/katchoo/sarasstare.jpg).

Re: Draw! [1/19]

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

Liir used only pencil, since that's what he'd practiced with the most, and tried his hardest to draw his half-sister's face as he remembered her.

Re: Draw! [1/19]

[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

Claudia sat down and began sketching out quick portraits of everyone in the room. For all that she dressed like an insane person uniquely, she had a definite artist's eye.

Re: Draw! [1/19]

[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

Yeah, so Peyton might have been sketching little cartoons of embarrassing phone messages gone awry.

Re: Mingle + Chat [1/19]

[pyroliz.livejournal.com]

Liz decided to stick with doodles for now, she figured her art skills would get better over time.

Talk to Claire [1/19]

[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

She's happy she seems to have gotten through this meeting without any major disaster.

Re: Talk to Claire [1/19]

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"Look at you," Cal said, "being all...leader-y."

Re: Talk to Claire [1/19]

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

Alice was somewhat nervous as she approached Claire after the meeting.

"Might I ... ask you something?" she said.

Talk to Ms. Aldrin [1/19]

[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

After she pings in, of course.

OOC [1/19]

[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

1) Please let me know if there's something in particular your character would like to talk about, and I'll make it happen. Email and AIM are both in my profile.

2) Anybody else wanna take a turn posting the club? There are virtual cookies in it if you do!

Re: OOC [1/19]

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

Savannah will help if Claire needs it. :)

Re: OOC [1/19]

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

Katchoo could get shanghaied into it at some point, sure!