fandomhigh | Art Therapy! [Friday, P2]

The art room was set out a little more normally than last week. No coffee this time, because it really didn’t go very well with practical art. You could not imagine the number of times Angela had almost drunk dirty paint water.

Not that anyone would find that a problem today. In this case, it would be dirty clay water, which was almost as bad.

“Today, we are experimenting with pottery,” Angela announced. “Which I think you’ll love. I hope you all paid attention to the sign up note about wearing clothes that can get dirty.” Clay dust got everywhere.

“The preparation is almost the best part of this, and the most therapeutic, because it basically amounts to hitting some clay”, and Angela launched into an explanation of some different varieties of kneading and exactly why she thought this was remotely relevant to art therapy. “Once you’re happy with your air bubble-less clay, and you’ve taken any bad feelings out on the stuff, you can get to making something. I don’t mind what, just relax, let your mind wander, and whatever flows, flows. Later you can pair up and talk about what you’ve made.” Or whatever else, because like anyone would stick on topic

“I’ll get it all fired by next week and you can keep it.” If it turned out respectably and people wanted their stuff. “Remember to put a hole in the bottom if it’s not a pot, or it could explode and that’s never pretty.” Never.

“Okay, collect some clay and a tub of tools and get kneading.”

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With hands.

Karolina Dean

Fawn Singleton Farrell

Cassie Blake

Sam Puckett

Ace McShane

Angelica Jones

Juliet Darling

Ryan Clark

Hanna Marin

Bucky Katt

Shane Gooseman

Squash all that nasty air out and release all that tension.

Now this was something Fawn could really get into. She was glad she could focus on kneading the clay, feeling it squash up between her fingers and, if she wanted, she could mold it into something of her own design, something of her own making, like some god using the clay of the earth to create humanity. Would she be a kind god, making whatever she created beautiful and functional, appealing and useful? Or would she be cruel and mold something hideous and grotesque, useless and awkward and strange?

As her fingers worked, it seemed that her inclination was leaning toward a sort of pitcher, but that effort was quickly squashed when her mind caught up with her hands and realized all the attention she was giving to the long, narrow spout coming out from the base of the pitcher. Her face filling with red, she quickly pulverized her clay back into a shapeless mount and thought to herself bowls. Bowls were always good...

Cassie was carefully focused on the clay. It was never something she had worked with before, but she could see many ideas coming to front of her head to try with it.

Spencer had never told her about the part of sculpting that involved beating up clay. This was possibly because no one in their right mind would want Spencer anywhere near anything that required a kiln, but Sam decided it was because he knew she'd be awesome at it and pretended the clay was Spencer's head for a bit.

What? It was theraputic!

Somehow after last week's introductions, Ace thought it might be smart to avoid mentioning that the art room disaster at her last school had occurred a) while she was pretending her nitro was plasticine, and b) with the first-years' pottery collection as the epicentre of the explosion.

La la la la la.

On the other hand, she could almost ignore her continued resentment of someone sticking her in a therapy class by pretending the clay was nitro. Which meant she was now, ironically, getting her ya-yas out by acting like it might blow up if she kneaded it too hard.

Ignore the disturbing grin.

Juliet had worn clothes she didn't really care about, but she was still trepidatious about putting her nice new plum-colored manicure into the mucky clay. But after she'd taken a few tentative stabs at the clay, she gave in and just started pounding on it. It made for excellent stress relief.

Bucky did NOT need to be told how to knead. It was something that cats did naturally, thank you very much, and instinct was so much better than all this stupid "learning".

Sure, it wasn't the same kind of kneading -- just something that looked kind of similar -- but you wouldn't be able to convince Bucky of that. See above, re: learning.

Anyway, he hopped up on top of his ball of clay and worked it with all four paws, clenching and stretching his toes, and really getting his claws into it. It may have ruined his clay and filled it with cat fur, but it was GREAT for relieving tension. He even -- although he'd deny it -- started to purr as he worked.

It’s your work of art. Pair up if you want and talk about it.

Karolina had been trying to sculpt her bit of clay into a swan. It mostly looked like a blob of clay with things protruding out of it on either side.

She chewed on her lip and gave her work of art a critical look. This matter manipulation thing was much easier with solar energy.

Bucky got so relaxed from kneading the clay that he just ended up curling up and falling asleep right on top of it. He never actually got around to sculpting anything.

Because you know you want to.

When they've pinged in, obviously.

Would be over here carefully creating lots of small clay balls, for no apparent reason. Best not to ask.

Angelica was enjoying this and totally wasn't naming her clay Emma or Empath or Roulette. Really.

Between work and traveling down to visit family, I'll be more than averagely sporadic today.

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