We had a really simple but beautiful day today. Most of it was spent in the art room working on a new project. Justina was teaching us about creating/using different textures on a 2d plane. After getting us to try out some techniques, we were told to thing of home. Where/when have we felt at home? What represents home to us? Etc. Then we had to think of a simple way to represent home. We also had to choose only three colours which we were going to use (plus shades and tints of those colours). Justina handed out huge sheets of water-colour paper, and the guided us through step by step (because we have people who have done lots of art, and some who haven’t done any!). We started with marking off borders with tape (for those who wanted to!) and then light washes of colour over the whole page. We left those to dry after lunch. When we came back she stared us off by getting us to scribble wildly on our pages with pencil! This was to help loosen everyone up, and to keep us getting too precious about our work! I found it really helpful, ha ha! We then had to add another wash, but we were only allowed to do it in one section of the page. As we were working, she kept on giving out new instructions – adding blocks of opaque colour to any part of the page; sketching out whatever we had chosen to depict home (we were not allowed to erase any lines we drew... use the mistakes!); sticking on bits of random text from old books... etc. I LOVED it! It reminded me how much I LOVE creating art, and I haven’t really done any since school. Why the heck not?! Gosh. So that’s my plan from here on out. More of that!
The afternoon was for work duties. Our group cleaned the office and kitchen again, and it was good reflection time for me. We also helped with some supper preparations, since we were already in the kitchen. We were also getting ready for the open mic night, which was after supper. And it was INCREDIBLE! The talent and beauty in this place is just ASTOUNDING! From spoken word to wonderful songs to spontaneous dancing to rap... all of it was amazing! I’ll try post some of the (terrible quality) videos I took! It made my heart SO happy! And I also really enjoyed not feeling the pressure to contribute anything myself! It was so good to be with friends and celebrate their amazingness :o)
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