Keri Smith's 100 Ideas

• 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 tea cup, 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 items you find on the street.
• Expose yourself to a new artist (go to a gallery or read a book.) Write about what moves you about it.
• Find a photo of a person you do not know. Write a brief biography 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.
• Trace the path of the moon in relation to where you live.
• Go to a paint store. Collect 'chips' of all your favorite colors.
• Draw your favorite tree.
• Take 15 minutes to eat an orange.
• Write a haiku.
• Hang upside down for five minutes.
• Hang found objects from tree branches.
• Make a puppet.
• Create an outdoor room 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.
• Make a meal based on a color theme. (i.e. all white).
• Create a museum of very small things.
• List the smells in your neighborhood.
• List 100 uses for a tin can.
• Fill an entire page in your journal with small circles. Color 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 the things in your purse/bag.
• Make a mini book based on the theme: "my grocery list".
• Create a character based on someone you know. Write a list of personality traits.
• Recall your favorite childhood game.
• 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).
• Draw the same object every day for a week.
• Write in your journal using a different medium (brush & ink, charcoal, old typewriter, crayons, fat markers).
• Draw the individual items of your favorite outfit.
• Make a useful item using only paper & tape.
• Research a celebration or ritual from another culture.
• Do a temporary art installation using a pad of post it notes & a pen.
• Draw a map of your favorite 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 magazine 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 every day.
• Glue a photo of yourself as a child into your journal.
• Trasform some garbage.
• Write an entry in your journal in really LARGE letters.
• Collect some 'flat' things in nature (leaves, flowers). Glue or tape them into your journal.
• Physically alter a page. (i.e. cut a hole, pour tea on it, burn it, fold it, etc.)
• Find several color combinations you respond to in public. Document them using swatches, write where you found them.
• Write a journal entry describing something "secret". Cut it up into several pieces and glue them back in scrambled.
• Record descriptions or definitions of subjects or 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 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.
• Divise a journal 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".
• Write down and complete an idea of your own.
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