Fandom High School

Lily almost looked sad when everyone piled into the room and she looked them over for the last time. "Well, guys, this is our last class. It's been a pleasure having you all in here, and maybe I'll see some of you next semester. I hope you had fun, and you know, learned stuff and everything," she said. "And you'll be happy to know that because it's hard enough to grade you guys when art is subjective anyway, and don't think that's not a pain, you're not going to have a final in here. As long as you sign in, you can either leave early, or you can use this as a free period, or you can grab a lump of clay or a piece of canvas or something and go to town. Uh, artistically."

When the students arrived to class today, they'd see a lump of clay sitting on each of their desks. Yes, it was a huge mystery what they were doing today.

"Welcome back, everyone, hope you had a great Thanksgiving," Lily greeted the class. "Or if you're not American and didn't celebrate, hope you had a good four days off anyway, courtesy of the gool ol' USA."

( class! )

"Welcome back, class," Lily greeted everyone. "And, you know, welcome to any temporary class members who are tagging along with actual class members, don't worry, we won't treat you any differently." And then she thought to look to see if there were any new kids.

"Anyway, we're having sort of a free period today. You've got all the supplies, so you can just practice on either your favorite technique so far, or try to get better at something you've been struggling with. As long as you're working, it's all good. I'll be here for any questions if you need help."


[Sorry it's lame, I totes forgot LJ is going down early in PST time and I want to get it up before the deadline. That's what she said.]

"Hi, there, class," Lily greeted everyone as she closed the door behind the last person. "Hope you all had fun last week, and really, I think you all get extra credit in not giving me anything I'd potentially have to explain to my boss.

"Today we're going to be working on people. And people are so hard to draw sometimes, they really are. When I first started it was always hard to get the necks right. Everyone looked vaguely descended from giraffes for a while there. Everyone's going to have their own way to draw a person. They might look realistic, or they might look cartoony, or it might be something that would make Picasso go 'What the hell'. One way to do it is to look at people as a series of shapes. You know, like the head's an oval, the neck is a square, the body is a rectangle," she said, demonstrating on the board as she spoke, "and just whittling things down from there. So if you're not sure what you're doing, try that out a bit. Whoever's next to you? Draw them, on two conditions: no stick figures, and this is not nude art, you're teenagers, I know that thought popped into at least one of your brains there. Now have fun."

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."

"Hey, guys. Glad you're all back and your correct genders and everything," Lily greeted the class when everyone had arrived. She was still wearing heels. Her back was killing her but her calves looked hot. "Hope in all the confusion you remembered to have a subject in mind for this week's project. And if not... well, just don't tell me about it, it's really easy to fake. Don't tell anyone I told you that."

( art! )

"Hi, everyone," Lily greeted the class. "I have what may be the world's worst headache. Lucky for me, you kind of have an interactive movie day. You're going to be learning to take some instruction. Those of you with previous art experience can learn some new techniques from this video, and those of you who have no idea what you're doing can get some sort of instruction. So you all have paints and canvas set up to work with, so while the video's playing, paint some happy trees of your own. Quietly."


[Sorry for the lameness. My trip of omg busy is over today and I'll be leaving for the airport in like an hour.]

The start of a new school year was always fun, and Lily was completely excited to have a new class. And one that had desks and she actually got to teach stuff to.

"Hi, everyone," she greeted them. "Welcome to Hands-On Art. In this class we're going to be learning not much about the history of art, though we will get into that a little, but it's more of a how-to, where you'll get to create your own works and figure out what mediums and styles work for you. And if it's not something you're serious about, sticking a lot of colors on a canvas can be a lot of fun. Or even cathartic.

"We'll get into that next week, though. Today's your token introductions class, nice and easy for the first week. You can just stand up, tell us your name and what year you're in, and why you're taking this class. And then we have the world's easiest art project, which is stick figures," Lily said, handing out sheets of paper and pencils to everyone. "I know, it sounds amazingly easy, but believe me, I've seen people get them wrong. Get as creative as you want. Give them a house, a little stick dog, whatever you want. I even have some markers up here if you want to add color. And extra paper if you're really ambitious and want a stick city or something. ...Okay, extra credit to anyone who can draw a stick city.

"And I am still looking for a TA. If anyone's interested, see me after class."