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The Sip and Paint class had been going on for about 45 minutes, and while Acoetes had been giving us some directions during that time, mostly he had been passionately expressing his ideas about art and life. He flip-flopped between encouraging us and occasionally giving us weird complements that could also be taken as backhanded insults. “Your first time, of course.” “Such a great example of abstraction” “Nice colors, too bad they don’t work together.”
He eventually drifted away from actually teaching and turned on some remixed RnB music, which he proceeded to dance to while hovering around the perimeter of the painting students. He moved his large frame surprisingly well as he kept rhythm to the loud, funky songs.
“I really thought we would be painting some kind of still life,” I co
