fandomhigh | The Art of Ma; Thursday, Second Period [09/24].

The class would be meeting again in the classroom, once more with the room rearranged to have all the desks pushed aside, but instead of a circle for discussion and tea, there were easels with canvases, tables set up with paints and inks and parchments, and clothes laid down on the floor to help keep any unintentional messes from being too difficult to clean up.

"Good morning, ducklings ♥," Shunsui greeted them with the typical sleepy smile. "I hope that those of you who participated in yesterday's cleaning and beautification project aren't entirely painted out yet, because today, I thought it would me nice to explore the Art of Ma through visual represtation and painting, which is possibly one of the simpliest and most evocative methods of expressing Ma, and perhaps a good way of showcasing where you might be on grasping the concepts ♥. We have paints and traditional inksand plenty of blank canvas, scrolls, parchment, cloth, or whatever else you might choose to paint on, and I'd like you to take some time to meditate on the negative space before you, and then cultivate it into something more with your brush strokes. Simple as that ♥.

"Feel free to paint whatever you'd like, as you'd like, but try and keep in mind to cultivate the negative space of your painting in a meaningful way, though, if you're finding your muse a bit elusive and difficult to catch on this particular day, let's discuss ideas and see if we might not be able to ge ta better hold on her, neh ♥? And never mind if you're uncertain of your own artistic talents; I am no painter myself, but today isn't so much about actual talent as it is merely the expression of ideas, and you may very well surprise yourself ♥."

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Artfully.

Well, more intructions over lecture, but it's a good time to ask questions if you have them before you get to actually painting.

There are a few different methods of painting you can use, from canvas and paint to ink and parchment, and the only limit on subject matter is your own imagination, though the point is to emulate the Art of Ma in your work and exploring how to use the negative space before you effectively. Feel free to do as many as you'd like, too, considering that painting a single tree on one side of your canvas would actually be a legitimate expression of this activity...

And might have been basically what Shunsui himself was doing, between peeking in on what the students themselves were painting. A single tree, shedding cherry blossoms across the canvas in a presumed light breeze...

Who is finding this a nice, relaxing distraction before having to go back to making sure he has some good hiding spots for all his sake in case Nanao-chan shows up again this weekend and goes on a dumping spree like she did the last time...

~insert non-braindead statement here~

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Nell Ingram

Astrid Magnussen

Astrid figured it would be coming up eventually, so she was mostly just glad that this week was going to be painting and not poetry, because painting she liked, painting was likely what she'd be doing if she wasn't in class anyway, and hopefully painting would help get her mind off the nervous knots in her stomach about this weekend.

There was no way she'd show up. She couldn't.

But this place did have ways of surprising you...

Astrid thought about doing a series of pictures in watercolor involving fish and coral, but she wound up mostly painting birds in cages, on the margins and in the edges of the canvas, with tree branches and flowers to balance it on the other side between the spaces.

Elli

Elli was quietly amused at the fact that, after painting yesterday, they were painting today.

She wasn't very good at this sort of painting but there was an attempt at whimsical bees and ladybugs. It seemed fitting and kept her entertained.

The Art of Ma; Thursday, Second Period [09/24].

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