Creativity + Passion = Art
You’re in an empty classroom. Nothing in there except for a couple empty seats. You’re the only person who seems to be in this area as you just sit there at your desk. The only thing in front of your line of sight is a couple of chalk beside a chalkboard.
All of the sudden, on your left, a door opens and a lavender pony peaks her head through it. You look towards it as the pony stares back at you.
“Peekaboo, tee hee hee,” she giggles. The positive pony tucks her head in the door only to open it wide and trot over to the chalkboard. “Hello there, my fellow human. Class… is in session,” she writes her name on the chalkboard.
“Um… who are you,” you ask.
“Well I’m the new character from the new movie… Izzy Moonbow!!!” she reaches in her personal pouch and throws around some glitter up in the air. The stuff slowly falls to the floor as you get a little bit of it on you.
“Nice…,” you look at your shoulder and blow some of it off. “Didn’t realize you were a teacher.”
“Only for today. But for right now I’m gonna be teaching the most sacred subject in the whole known universe… arts n’ crafts,” she says with enthusiasm and then switches to a soft whisper.
“Is it really that sacred?” you ask.
“Only if you have the passion for creativity… boop,” she lightly touches your nose with her hoof and giggles. “Because everyone knows the equation that your creative side plus your passionate side equals good art,” Izzy writes her ‘equation’ on the chalkboard.
“I’m not sure if that’s an actual equation,” you say.
“I don’t know, it’s just a fun thing I like to say. Makes it sound cool.”
“Meh, I guess it’s a pretty casual choice.”
“One of the things I like to reference during my ‘Investigative Journalism’ i—ss this,” Izzy pulls down a plain white sheet in front of the chalkboard and sets up a projector in under five seconds at a fast pace. The projector shows a clip of the movie Friendship Games that shows the students in a competition segment of building birdhouses. “As you can see here, each team works together on building a birdhouse. Just get wood and some super sticky glue and then BOOM! You’ll have a birdhouse.”
“Do I need to take notes for this?” you ask.
“My friend… there’s a time for written learning and a time to test your visual learning,” she scoots up close to you and gestures her hoof. “In which case this is a time for visual learning. Watch me and observe.”
The lavender pony quickly brings out her materials like some paper, a glue stick, some colorful sprinkles, cotton balls, and some markers and makes her own creation out of her tools. It would only take about a minute or two for her to finish up her crafting and the next thing you know she shows you a paper that has a cute sparkly rainbow on it.
“…you’re good,” you give her a compliment.
“Like I said: Creativity plus Passion. Remember the equation,” she points out. “Now you try,” she uses her magic and all of the sudden a table with a bunch of supplies to make art appears.
“Ok…” you get up from your chair and walk towards the table. “Um… what should I make exactly?”
“Oh no no no… the real question is… what are you meant to make?” Izzy says in an elusive tone.
At this point you look back at the art supplies and you pick up a craft stick. Looking back at you ‘pony teacher’ she gives you a quick and small nod, gesturing you to at least try something out. All of the sudden a light bulb goes off in your head and you start to pick up the items you need for your idea.
You pick up a hot glue gun and a bunch more craft sticks and quickly make your way back to your desk and instantly start to craft a small wooden house. You put down the floor, walls, and then the roof from top to bottom and carefully use the hot glue to put the craft sticks together. With that it only took you about ten minutes to complete your small house with the doors and windows and show it to Izzy.
“Hmmmm…” she looks at your hand made house. “…You have no idea how proud I am of you right now,” the lavender pony gets giddy as she expresses her approval.
“Really? Well I mean it’s not really much, it's just a small stick house,” you say as you don’t think much of your craft.
“But you got creative and most importantly you tried, you created your house with a passion even if you don’t know it,” she tells you.
“Well… I did want to make this as good as possible… in fact,” you quickly take some color markers and paper. You only take about a minute to finish your drawing and you show Izzy a drawing of her with glasses with her hooves waving to make a rainbow with the middle of it saying ‘art’.
“Awwww…” she says as she takes your fanart and looks back to you with her sincere eyes. “I can see that my student is now the master.”
“Well… I guess I can learn from the best,” you say. All of the sudden a beep goes off and Izzy checks uses her magic and checks her watch.
“Oop looks like class session is over,” she says.
“Already?”
“Yep. But don’t worry, if you want you can always come over to my place if you wanna hang out,” she smiles.
“Sure. You know? I think you might be my favorite pony already.”
“I’m the only pony you’ve met silly,” Izzy jokes.
After you guys put up the art supplies and tidy up the classroom, both of you go out the door.