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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="c15efb0b9800bb63e3ec58bd17bc4148""I do... I draw but I finish each picture in less than ten minutes. So I have so many of them. Ok, so she's probably a slopy child-like artist, little did I know, that she was actually a great artist, who draws with quick but precise long lines. Of things, she's drawn a million times already. I continued to carve, and she continued to silently watching me sculpt until the five minute clean up bell rang. It was unnerving, to say the least. /p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="62cacc3309d2e861b949d8bd319952d4"Sure enough the next day, fourth period came I was in the art room getting out my project and all the supplies, by the time I did all that I was just unwrapping my sculpture a relief sculpture of a waterfall over rocks; which I might add, ended up turning out amazing when done, if you pour water down the top it trickles down the rocks. Astrid awkwardly opened the door and looked around. I called her over to the back table where I was set up, away from the studio art class going on./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="92d63aaa0b57ba687d491bf86bcd5310"I shrugged, I know it was awesome. I sculpted it, but I didn't want to gloat. "yea it's not done yet..." I picked up a tool and started to carefully scrape away at the hunk of clay, she seemed mesmerized as I did, so I worked in silence... for a short while, which was a welcomed. After a little I was hyper-focusing, most people think that people with ADHD cant stay focused on anything, but that's not true; we can do something called hyper-focusing were we are beyond focused on one thing so much that time and surroundings cease to exist; that happens to me whenever I'm doing art without someone talking to me. I was jolted back to reality when Astrid asked if she could try./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="2e02ba97bd2ccd8185a8aca9ddaafbfb""what the-! NO!" I responded to the ludicrous question, "This is my art no one else can touch it!" she looked upset. " I take it you don't do any art yourself," if she did she would know just how preposterous that question was./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="c15efb0b9800bb63e3ec58bd17bc4148""I do... I draw but I finish each picture in less than ten minutes. So I have so many of them. Ok, so she's probably a slopy child-like artist, little did I know, that she was actually a great artist, who draws with quick but precise long lines. Of things, she's drawn a million times already. I continued to carve, and she continued to silently watching me sculpt until the five minute clean up bell rang. It was unnerving, to say the least. /p