Chaos Makes The Muse

Calliope's smile widened when the woman acknowledged her. "I asked if I could see your drawings, but if you do portraits, I wouldn't mind sitting for one." She'd never been drawn before, not even one of those sketches they did at tourist locations where you ended up with a large forehead or a long chin. "I didn't mean to intrude, though. It just looked really beautiful from where I was sitting." She unfortunately had no creative skills aside from colour swatching and hanging up wallpaper. But that wasn't something she did very often. @xrowanxbennettx

"Oh, I'm sorry. I uh..." Rowan smiled, looking down at her sketchbook before picking it up to show the woman her drawing of the person who'd left. "How this for a portrait? I'd love to draw you." The other was the type of person Rowan would love to draw. "No, you are definitely not intruding!" she insisted with a shake of her head. "Besides, I love when people ask about my art."

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Rowan didn't come down to the pier very often. She typically preferred to stay inside, but with the nice weather, she figured she take it in while she had the chance to. She was focused on her shoe, keeping an eye on her untied shoelace to make sure she didn't trip while she found a place she could stop before she felt the impact against her body. "Ow!" she said, laughing uncomfortably. "I also wasn't looking. Trying not to trip on my shoelaces. Guess getting run into is better than falling on my face. I'm okay, I think. Are you okay?"

He laughed "I am doing best, don't you bully an old man like me" he joked. Now he knew he wasn't that old, but he was far younger than he once was and much older than the rest of his family now. "I still don't know why you asked me, I look pretty funny," he joked again as he smiled, doing his best not to move. "I mean, it looks like me, I would make it look like a monster," he joked. He was impressed by what she had done. "I know that you have to do a lot of work to try and make me look like a person and not some old monster man," he teased. He kept laughing, wanting to know, even though he made fun of himself, he was only kidding. @xbennettxrowanx

"Old man? Yeah right!" Rowan shook her head, her face scrunching. "Because I draw the things and people I enjoy being around." Looking at the other, she sighed. "Plus, I think it's fun to draw funny looking people. So even if that was true, I would still want to draw you." She didn't think he was all that funny looking. Still, when he confirmed that she'd managed to make it look like him, she smiled proudly. "I don't believe that," she said, turning to a new page. "You have a try. I'm sure you can do a good job. Just have to put your mind to it." Turning the sketchbook around to face him, Rowan slid it closer to the man and set her pencil on top of the page. "Even if it looks like a child drew it, I'll still cherish it." She kept every piece of art that was given to her, no matter how good or bad it was. "There can be beauty found in everyone—even monsters."

It was a slow enough day at work that Remi had been able to take a bit of time to hang around with Rowan and as soon as the conversation turned to Jupiter she was even more glad for it. "Jupiter is like actually kind of terrifying. It's kind of like a giant ball of gas and like crazy weather like hurricanes and lightning storms and stuff. Not really anything solid to land on," she explained, her face lighting up as she described some of the currently known facts about the planet. "Definitely not somewhere we'll probably be able to visit, but like I would never count us out of it being possible someday. Surface itself is actually really cold, but the deeper you get into it, the hotter it is. So, like, human life probably a no go there, but aliens is a different story. If there's like some other life out there, which I do think there is. It'd be crazy to think we're the only things in the universe. But, we don't know anything about what's out there, they might be perfectly suited to live on a Jupiter. Is Jupiter your favorite planet? It's a really good one."

Rowan's brows raised when Remi began talking about Jupiter. Really, she didn't know a whole lot about most of the planets, so learning new info was always interesting. "Well, I don't like storms. I think I'd rather stay away from there if that's the case." Though she should have been old enough to be past being afraid of storms, Rowan hadn't been able to stop that fear. "How cold? I figure if aliens do exist, they've definitely adapted to the conditions up there. There's no way they live up there and haven't. I think with how much life there is on Earth, there has to be life in other places in the universe." It was interesting to think about the possibilities. It would be quite unbelievable to think that Earth was the only place that housed life. "No, I don't think so. I think my favourite would be Mars, because it my favourite colour. But I heard that song, 'Drops Of Jupiter', and it got me wondering."

"You know what? I agree," she said with a smile, "Oh how I'd love to get a family portrait done like the old days. But I don't think any of my kids would be able to sit that long." Maybe the twins who were ten and you could explain to them, but definitely not her younger son or her daughter who wasn't even two years old. "Something about a personal touch or style that goes into that sort of thing," she grinned at Rowan's enthusiasm before chuckling. "Perfect, and uh good question,, she said pulling out her phone, the calendar on it being her lifeline when it came to scheduling things. "How about sometime in July?" @xbennettxrowanx

"Well, I think nowadays I could take a picture and then work off of that. Luckily we live in more modern times where we have things like cameras." Rowan figured her parents could acquire her some sort of camera. It didn't have to be super expensive. Just enough for her to get a decent amount of detail to go off of. "I always have to put my personal twist on things. I can do portraits, but there will always be a little something in it that says 'Rowan made this'." There were hundreds of artists who could paint boring, sterile portraits that were void of any kind of personality, but that wasn't Rowan's style. "July works for me! I have a couple of things booked, but I'm mostly free for now. Just get back to me on an exact date."

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Most days, Rowan sat in the cafe where she'd draw the people around, her drink, or whatever pastry sat uneaten in front of her. But with the weather being so warm, she felt like it would go to waste if she didn't sit outside soaking in the sun. So today, she was sat in the park, on the grass, with a thick sketchbook propped against her legs and a pencil in her hand. Her head seemed to be buried deep within the paper, focused intently on the details of the drawing. It took her a moment, but when she looked up, she noticed the man in a similar position not too far from her. "Do you ever feel like the sun makes your creativity flow? Like... Something about the rays against your skin bring those ideas in your head alive," she mused. "I just love the summer. Sometimes I think I've lost my touch when the snow comes, but when it all melts, my brain starts moving faster than I can keep up." She wasn't sure that the man was listening, and she was mostly thinking out loud, but she loved speaking with other artists and figured he would like understand what she meant. "What are you drawing?"

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"Lemonade and watermelon... Sounds like a strange combo," Rowan commented, but it sparked curiosity in her. Despite the combo sounding like it might not mix, it wasn't strange enough that she wouldn't try it, at least once. "Really? I feel like when I have a watermelon at home, it ends up being gone in a few days." Her parents barely even got some before Rowan had eaten most of it. It was so refreshing and if it was bought at the right time, a great sweet treat that wasn't packed with artificial sugar. "I feel like you're just looking for an excuse to get another one," she said with a grin. "But if you're offering, then I'm in."

He looked over at her for a moment "I am doing my best " he made a face to try and somehow help himself hold still. He chucked "I think I just have a big messy nose, so it's right," he teased his years on the force and labor work, he had hurt his nose over the years. " Just make it look more sideways and go for it " he teased making a face @xbennettxrowanx

"Gotta stay still, like a statue," she said, her voice lowering as she concentrated on the drawing. Rowan shook her head, erasing and redrawing his nose a few more times, before she finally got it right. There was a certain patience in the way she focused in on specific areas. She would never leave a sketch until it looked exactly how she pictured it in her mind. "How's this look?" Picking up the sketchbook, she turned it around and set it in front of the man. "I think it needs a little bit of work in some spots. I'll take it home and work some more. You don't make a very good figure model," she teased, reaching across the table to poke his arm.

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"I think sometimes we should go back in time when people got paintings made of themselves. I think people lost their whimsy a little bit, y'know?" Of course these days, it would probably cost an arm and a leg to get a huge portrait painted, but Rowan thought it would be cool. "Exactly!" When Makayla said she'd like Rowan to come over to sketch the kids, she wiggled excitedly. "You don't have to say another word. When and where?" She was the type to take every opportunity that arose, although that got her into some problems on occasion. Rowan tried to keep a full schedule, but she often filled it up with more than she really had time for. There were many times where she'd had conflicting times on her schedule, causing her to have to cancel and rearrange last minute.