"You've been a great class this semester," Steve said, "and I'm so glad to see all of you back safe and sound presumably." There was a plate of Christmas cookies and a choice of coffee or milk available on a table to the side of the room, and he gestured to it as he said, "Please, help yourselves to the refreshments. Your assignment is then to ( Read more... )

Steve looked around at his students, and sighed. "I'm sure some of you think you have better places to be today. Unfortunately for you, I am the responsible adult here, and I will be the judge of that. Anyone who promises to head straight for the library--and don't think I won't check--can be excused. Anyone who is planning to go looking for ( Read more... )

Steve looked...concerned when the students arrived today. Between the extremely worrisome message from Tony on Saturday and the fact that he couldn't get in touch with Bucky...of course, in the latter case, it was possible he was in outer space or had dropped his phone off a glacier or had it destroyed by a robot or something, so he refused to ( Read more... )

"Good morning," Steve said to the class. He stood in front of a large screen, and on a table off to the side were pastries, popcorn, and soda. You know what that meant: movie day. "I'm afraid some of the supplies I ordered for this week's class didn't arrive on time...something about 'multiversal delays.' So we'll instead be watching a film ( Read more... )

"Good morning, everyone," Steve said. He sounded pretty cheerful, as he was, quite frankly, glad to be back to normal this morning. He'd had a lot of fun as a child but it wasn't a state he missed. "This week we're going to continue with sculpture, but actual sculpture, not...you sculpture. Each of you has a measure of clay at your work station ( Read more... )

"Today we're going to do something a little different," Steve said, "but I hope we'll all have fun. We're going to combine performance art and sculpture. So, first I'd like everyone to break up into groups of two or three, and then...you're going to recreate a famous sculpture from the links list provided. Please refrain from faithful rendering ( Read more... )

"I'd like to start by apologizing for last week," Steve said to his class this week. "I was called away on emergency business." Because the universe's reaction to his retirement some weeks seemed to be 'care to bet?' "We're going to to do this week what I'd intended to do this week. It's related to today's holiday,Halloween, so I'm sorry you ( Read more... )

"I hope everyone enjoyed their break," Steve said, "but now it's time to get back to work." He gestured to the bins of newspapers, magazines, colored paper of various textures, and assorted craft supplies on a table by the wall. "Collage is the art of assembling disparate parts into a new whole. It comes from the French for 'to glue,' so...you ( Read more... )

"I hope everyone survived their weekend unscathed, whether you had visitors or not," Steve said when the class assembled this morning. Peggy. Thinking about it still kind of hurt, so he pushed it down and forged on. "If you did have visitors, I hope they weren't too alarmed or traumatized by our...special, special little island. Now, on to our ( Read more... )

"Oil painting," Steve began, "is probably a form you're somewhat familiar with, as it's been used to create many of your more familiar works of art, including the Mona Lisa." He gave a brief history of the form, then a rundown on how to work with the medium, before telling the students, "Your assignment today is portraiture. It can be a self- ( Read more... )