- 1. Go for a walk. Draw or list things you find on the the sidewalk.
- 2. Write a letter to yourself in the future.
- 3. Buy something inexpensive as a symbol for your need to create, (new pen, a tea cup, journal). Use it everyday.
- 4. Draw your dinner.
- 5. Find a piece of poetry you respond to. Rewrite it and glue it into your journal.
- 6. Glue an envelope into your journal. For one week collect items you find on the street.
- 7. Expose yourself to a new artist, (go to a gallery, or in a book.) Write about what moves you about it.
- 8. Find a photo of a person you do not know. Write a brief bio about them.
- 9. Spend a day drawing only red things.
- 10. Draw your bike.
- 11. Make a list of everything you buy in the next week.
- 12. Make a map of everywhere you went in one day.
- 13. Draw a map of the creases on your hand, (knuckles, palm)
- 14. Trace your footsteps with chalk.
- 15. Record an overheard conversation.
- 16. Trace the path of the moon in relation to where you live.
- 17. Go to a paint store. Collect ‘chips’ of all your favorite colors.
- 18. Draw your favorite tree.
- 19. Take 15 minutes to eat an orange.
- 20. Write a haiku.
- 21. Hang upside down for five minutes.
- 22. Hang found objects from tree branches.
- 23. Make a puppet.
- 24. Create an outdoor room from things you find in nature.
- 25. Read a book in one day.
- 26. Illustrate your grocery list.
- 27. Read a story out loud to a friend.
- 28. Write a letter to someone you admire.
- 29. Study the face of someone you do not like.
- 30. Make a meal based on a color theme. (i.e. all white).
- 31. Creat a museum of very small things.
- 32. List the smells in your neighborhood.
- 33. List 100 uses for a tin can.
- 34. Fill an entire page in your journal with small circles. Color them in.
- 35. Give away something you love.
- 36. Choose an object, draw the side you can’t see.
- 37. List all of the places you’ve ever lived.
- 38. Describe your favourite room in detail.
- 39. Write about your relationship with your washing machine.
- 40. Draw all of the things in your purse/bag.
- 41. Make a mini book based on the theme, “my grocery list”.
- 42. Create a character based on someone you know. Write a list of personality traits.
- 43. Recall your favorite childhood game.
- 44. Put postcards of art pieces/painting on the inside of your kitchen cupboard doors, so you can see them everyday (but not become deaf to them.)
- 45. Draw the same object every day for a week.
- 46. Write in your journal using a different medium (brush & ink, charcoal, old typewriter, crayons, fat markers.
- 47. Draw the individual items of your favorite outfit.
- 48. Make a useful item using only paper & tape.
- 49. Research a celebration or ritual from another culture.
- 50. Do a temporary art installation using a pad of post it notes & a pen.
- 51. Draw a map of your favorite sitting spots in your town/city. (photocopy it and give it to someone you like.)
- 52. Record all of the sounds you hear in the course of one hours.
- 53. Using a grid, collect various textures from magazine and play them off of each other.
- 54. Cut out all media for one day. Write about the effects.
- 55. Make pencil rubbings of six different surfaces.
- 56. Draw your garbage.
- 57. Do a morning collage.
- 58. List your ten most important things, (not including animals or people.)
- 59. List ten things you would like to do every day.
- 60. Glue a photo of yourself as a child into your journal.
- 61. Trasform some garbage.
- 62. Write an entry in your journal in really LARGE letters.
- 63. Collect some ‘flat’ things in nature (leaves, flowers). Glue or tape them into your journal.
- 64. Physically alter a page. (i.e. cut a hole, pour tea on it, burn it, fold it, etc.)
- 65. Find several color combinations you respond to in public. Document them using swatches, write where you found them.
- 66. Write a journal entry describing something “secret”. Cut it up into several pieces and glue them back in scrambled.
- 67. Record descriptions or definitions of subjects or words you are interested in, found in encyclopedias or dictionaries.
- 68. Draw the outline of an object without looking at the page. (contour drawing).
- 69. What were you thinking just now? write it down.
- 70. Do nothing.
- 71. Write a list of ten things you could to do. Do the last thing on the list.
- 72. Create an image using dots.
- 73. Do 3 drawings at different speeds.
- 74. Put a small object in your left pocket (or in a bag), Put your left hand in the pocket. Draw it by feel.
- 75. Create a graph documenting or measuring something in your life.
- 76. Draw the sun.
- 77. Create instructions for a simple everyday task.
- 78. Make prints using food. (fruit and vegetables cut in half, fish, etc.)
- 79. Find a photo. Alter it by drawing over it.
- 80. Write a letter using an unconventional medium.
- 81. Draw one object for twenty minutes.
- 82. Combine two activities that have not been combined before.
- 83. Write about your day in an encyclopedic fashion. (i.e. organize by subject.)
- 84. Write a list of all the things you do to escape.
- 85. Cut a random shape out of several layers of a magazine. Make a collage out of the results.
- 86. Write an entry in code.
- 87. Make a painting using tools from the bathroom.
- 88. Work with a medium that is subtractive.
- 89. Write about or draw some of the doors in your life.
- 90. Make a postcard that has some kind of activity on it.
- 91. Divise a journal entry using “layers”.
- 92. Divise an entry using “layers”.
- 93. Write your own definition of one of the following concepts, sitting, waiting, sleeping (without using the actual word.)
- 94. List 10 of your habits.
- 95. Illustrate the concept of “simplicity”.
jun 30 2014 ∞
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