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Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 12:46 am
There was a lot that Wisp loved about art, even if it had taken her a while to learn a few things about it; like the fact that you had to learn the rules before you could break them, and that working inside set rules was not somehow harming her freedoms and rights to rebel against conformity or something.
It was Still-Life Day, which was pretty boring if you thought about it; the still life was a fruit bowl with pears and apples and bananas in it, which were at least nice colours. And you got your own canvas, and you could mix up your palette if you wanted to, though they only got so many colours to do it with. You were also allowed to talk quietly if you liked.
Wisp looked over either side of her. Depressingly, she was at the end of the semi-circle, so she got 50% less talking-mate than anyone else. That was just unfair. However, the girl next to her was pretty and delicate and diminuitive, and she hadn't seen her around a great deal. She liked her immediately. For one thing, she had little white wings sticking out her back, butterfly wings, and this charmed Wisp no end.
She examined the apple and picked up her paintbrush, dipping it into the red first. "You're really pretty," she said brightly to the girl next to her, "you know, you look like a fairy or something!"
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:39 am
Maddy had been deeply engrossed in trying to figure out how to on earth one went about making lines that weren't as shaky as her's always seemed to be when the colourful girl next to her talked.
"What, me?" What an odd thing to say, she mused, especially when the other girl was so much prettier than she was, "Umh, thank you.. I don't think I'm a fairy, though." The last part carried an air of regret with it. Being a fairy would've been way cool!
"You're very pretty too. Like a rainbow," she smiled shyly at the other.
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 1:16 am
Her canvasmate's grin was immediate and bright. "Thanks," she said, "rainbows are my favourite, like totally my favourite." (Considering how the blonde girl dressed, this was pretty obvious.) "I'm Wisp. Hey, we should trade names, now that I think about it. You look way Wisp-ier than me. Wisp is a name that needs butterfly wings and things. So what's your name, huh?"
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 9:16 am
The smile on her face was tentative and shy, but it was there. "That's a pretty name," and it fit, too, no matter what the girl in question thought - Wisp was all over the place, in a way that Maddy had never seen before.
"I'm Madeleine," a name that definitely did not suit Wisp and didn't suit herself either, she thought.
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Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:58 pm
"Wow," said Wisp enviously. "That is such a princess name. 'Madeleine.' And it's like Madeleine from Madeleine -- have you ever read those books? About the little French girl? They're so cute. You know, I think you look like a Madeleine; that's too bad because I totally wish I could have stolen your name now!"
She put her paintbrush down and leant over to see what the butterfly girl was doing. "Do you like doing still lifes?" she said. "I think they're kind of sucky, but, I mean, only a little sucky."
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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:04 pm
In her mind, the butterfly girl was starting to doubt the other's sanity. "Madeleine is not a princess name," she made a small 'pfft' sound to illustrate her point, "It's a grandma name! Old, grumpy women living in creaky old houses are named Madeleine, not princesses."
She took a moment to think about Wisp's question after she'd had her little outburst; "Not really. I mean, Mom said there was some books named like me, but.." she shrugged, clearly not having been interested at the time. Maybe she'd have to ask Mom about it again, though - if the other girl thought they were cute, they had to be something worth reading.
"I dunno. They're kind of.. OK, I guess." In truth, Maddy had never been very creative, and this was her first time drawing in a long time - since she'd been a toddler, in fact. And it was kinda hard to have an opinion about something you didn't know, in her mind. "What do you mean by that?" Sort of sucky, yet not? Weird.
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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:21 pm
"Well, I mean, it's better than doing maths," said the blonde girl contemplatively, "but sitting and just drawing a bowl of fruit is kind of boring. But you're not allowed to deviate. Last time I painted the apples and the bananas with little hands and feet and eyes and got in mondo amounts of trouble."
She spread some paint on her canvas. "It's just dull. The fruit's there, right? Let it go and be fruit, it's not something I want to paint. Sorry, fruit."
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 1:11 am
"Anything is better than math," the butterfly girl crinkled her nose to illustrate, "but yeah. The fruit's already there, why do we need to paint it? It's not like it's going to need a portrait any time soon." You painted things you wanted to show to the world, in Maddy's opinion. Painting things that were already in existance, and, in fact, bright and colourful and quite easy to see was just a waste of time.
It was probably one of the reasons she'd always had trouble with doing stuff like this. "But hey, at least it's not math," she grinned at Wisp, "Which always counts for something, I guess!"
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 4:12 am
"Oh, yeah," said Wisp, utterly fervent. "Especially because when I'm in math, I'm like, 'four minus four,' and I try to take away way more than four because I get mixed up and I end up with an answer like nine and then my mom looks at me like I am a total doofus. Not that I am that bad, but I am nearly that bad, that is the thing!"
She went back to her own still-life. The brush swiped dolefully, outlining the bowl. "We should be painting interesting things," she said, "like, it'd be rad if we could do each other, because you don't really see yourself, you know?"
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 10:33 am
"That is bad - no offence or anything." She giggled cheerfully, loads more comfortable in the other girl's presence now. In Maddy's opinion, nothing took away the intimidation factor faster than moaning about math together - anyone who hated math had to be a good person! She nodded thoughtfully along to Wisp's insight. "Totally. Or just like, doing something that we'd need to think about, you know?" She grappled for words for a few moments, trying to find the perfect example. "Like instead of doing just a portrait, we'd do a portrait of how we imagined each other'd look if there'd been a zombie outbreak, or if you were a hula dancer or something. That'd be awesome."
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 7:04 pm
Wisp's head spun around so quickly it should have snapped off; she was looking at Maddy in a new light. Obviously, she was also the type of girl who dreamed about drawing what people would look like through a zombie outbreak, or if everybody was a hula dancer. "Or," she said, "if everybody was a magical robot, though that might be kind of hard."
Maddy was obviously a girl after her own heart.
"Like it would also be super cool to draw everybody like how we'd look in caveman times," she said, "it'd be like, use your brain!, you know?" And: "You are so cool. Sorry for just like, being all saying that out loud, but you are so cool, can I be your friend?"
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Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 10:50 am
"Not really. There are tons of different magical robots, right? I bet you could do it, if you really wanted to," Maddy nodded with conviction. You might have to set up some sort of system of how big noses translated into this and that, but you could and it'd probably be fantastic too.
"Yeah, something you'd have to think about to do! You'd have to think of people's personality and their skills and everything to make it - I mean, not everyone would do well living in a cave, right? It'd be way harder than just drawing a bunch of fruit." She hadn't even noticed that her gesturing had gotten paint all over her pants, or that her feelers were twitching madly.
Cool? Her? Blushing, she shook her head. "No way, you're way cooler than I am! But I'd love to be friends. Even if I'm not as cool as you think."
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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 6:56 pm
"Look, usually if I had said something like that everyone would be like wow Wisp you are seriously lame sorry, you are the lamest song played on the stupidest guitar," said the blonde girl. "But there you are saying the exact same stuff; so I want to be your friend so hard! Like I want to draw what everyone would look like through a zombie outbreak right now. I can't believe I have to draw this stupid still-life instead."
She kept her voice down because she didn't want to hurt the teacher's feelings, after all, but her own remained. "We could like, start at lunchtime," she suggested, "we could do our own pictures of zombie outbreaks."
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 7:51 am
Maddy considered this for a moment. "We definitely should. We could make a picture for everyone we know, yeah? It'd be a large project, but whatever." She had a sudden, bright idea: "And when we're done with that, we could move on to other stuff, like robots or cavemen or carnivorous plants."
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