- Go for a walk. Draw or list things you find on the sidewalk.
- Write a letter to yourself in the future.
- Buy something inexpensive as a symbol for your need to create (new pen, a teacup, a journal). Use it everyday.
- Draw your dinner.
- Find a piece of poetry you respond to. Rewrite it and glue it into your journal.
- Glue an envelope into your journal. For one week, collect things you find in the street.
- Expose yourself to a new artist (go to a gallery or in a book). Describe what moves you about it.
- Find a photo of a person you do not know. Write a brief bio about them.
- Spend a day drawing only red things.
- Draw your bike.
- Make a list of everything you buy in the next week.
- Make a map of everywhere you went in one day.
- Draw a map of the creases on your hand (knuckles, palm).
- Trace your footsteps with chalk.
- Record an overheard conversation (in a notebook, I presume?).
- Trace the path of the moon in relation to where you live.
- Go to a paint store. Collect ‘chips’ of all your favourite colours.
- Draw your favourite tree.
- ✔ Take 15 minutes to eat an orange. (4/13)
- Write a haiku.
- Hang upside down for five minutes.
- Hang found objects from tree branches.
- Make directions for a puppet.
- Create a collage from things you find in nature.
- Read a book in one day.
- Illustrate your grocery list.
- Read a story out loud to a friend.
- Write a letter to someone you admire.
- Study the face of someone you do not like.
- Play with your food.
- Create a museum of very small things.
- List the smells in your neighbourhood.
- List 100 uses for a tin can.
- Fill an entire page in your journal with small circles. Colour them in.
- Give away something you love.
- Choose an object. Draw the side you can’t see.
- List all of the places you’ve ever lived.
- Describe your favourite room in detail.
- Write about your relationship with your washing machine.
- Draw all of things in your purse/bag.
- Make a mini-book on the theme ‘my grocery list’.
- Create a character based on someone you know. Write a list of personality traits.
- Recall your favourite childhood game.
- Put postcards you respond to on the inside of your kitchen cupboard doors so you can see them everyday.
- Draw the same object every day for a week.
- Write in your journal using a different medium (Brush and ink, charcoal, old typewriter, crayons, markers).
- Draw the individual items of your favourite outfit.
- Make a useful item using only paper and tape.
- Research a celebration ritual from another culture.
- Do a temporary art installation using a pad of post it notes and a pen.
- Draw a map of your favourite sitting spots in your town/city (photocopy it and give it to someone you like).
- Record all of the sounds you hear in the course of one hour.
- Using a grid, collect various textures from magazines and play them off of each other.
- Cut out all Media for one day. Write about the effects.
- Make pencil rubbings of six different surfaces.
- Draw your garbage.
- Do a morning collage.
- List your ten most important things (not including animals or people).
- List ten things you would like to do everyday.
- Glue a photo of yourself as a child into your journal.
- Transform some garbage.
- Write an entry in your journal in really LARGE letters.
- Collect some flat things in nature (flowers, leaves). Glue or tape them into your journal.
- Physically alter a page (ie. cut a hole, pour tea on it, burn it, fold it, etc).
- Find several colour combinations you respond to in public. Document them using swatches, write where you found them.
- Experiment with simple print making (ie. monoprint, photocopy, stamping, potato printing, lino, eraser).
- Record descriptions or definitions of words you are interested in, found in encyclopedias or dictionaries.
- Draw the outline of an object without looking at the page. (contour drawing).
- What were you thinking just now? write it down.
- Do nothing.
- Write a list of ten things you could to do. Do the last thing on the list.
- Create an image using dots.
- Do 3 drawings at different speeds.
- Put a small object in your left pocket (or in a bag), Put your left hand in the pocket. Draw it by feel.
- Create a graph documenting or measuring something in your life.
- Draw the sun.
- Create instructions for a simple everyday task.
- Make prints using food. (fruit and vegetables cut in half, fish, etc.)
- Find a photo. Alter it by drawing over it.
- Write a letter using an unconventional medium.
- Draw one object for twenty minutes.
- Combine two activities that have not been combined before.
- Write about your day in an encyclopedic fashion. (i.e. organize by subject.)
- Write a list of all the things you do to escape.
- Cut a random shape out of several layers of a magazine. Make a collage out of the results.
- Write an entry in code.
- Make a painting using tools from the bathroom.
- Work with a medium that is subtractive.
- Write about or draw some of the doors in your life.
- Make a postcard that has some kind of activity on it.
- Write an entry about a secret. Cut it up and glue the pieces in randomly.
- Devise an entry using “layers”.
- Write your own definition of one of the following concepts, sitting, waiting, sleeping (without using the actual word.)
- List 10 of your habits.
- Illustrate the concept of “simplicity”.
apr 13 2011 ∞
nov 6 2013 +