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Homework

Posted on January 14th, by Susan in College. No Comments

Now that we’re all back to school, this is what our kitchen table looks like most evenings.

Ally’s current art assignment involves an A1 sheet of paper and a pointillism/sgraffito task.

I wasn’t sure what either pointillism or sgraffito were, but I know now.  With pointillism you take a pencil and dot it, loudly and repeatedly, on your page, while giggling at the poor individuals around you being subjected to the noise.

With sgraffito (I wonder why they don’t call it scratchillism), you scratch layers of paint off the page to reveal layers underneath, while covering your surroundings with the bits of paint you’ve discarded.

With all the tapping and scratching going on, I’m glad my own assignment involved a set of headphones. (Testing the Embed code below)

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