- ✔ journal spill
- fill a page with writing - as quick as you can, anything on your mind, don't over think it
- cover completely in paint
- ALTERNATIVES: cover in collage, scribbles
- fill page with receipts
- random ones or ones from a whole week
- ✔ cut out a bunch of words from a couple different sources
- quickly, don't over think it
- keep an envelope of words for different journaling prompts
- different ideas for using these words:
- ✔ make poem
- make random poem picking words blindly from envelope, pasting them in the order picked out
- fill entire page with words
- pick a bunch of words that inspire you
- ✔ what I love about myself
- my favourite underwear & socks
- ✔ what would I grab if the apartment were on fire
- fill the page with white items
- ✔ ALTERNATIVES: different colours
- fill the page with texture (find photos of textures in magazines or make your own)
- ✔ draw a self portrait
- use only pencil, pen, marker, collage, etc
- make one wish you'd like to have come true within the month
- ✔ illustrate your horoscope for the day
- ✔ draw a comic strip of your morning routine
- ✔ illustrate your favourite recipe / dish / meal
- draw what you're wearing right now
- ✔ go for a walk & pick up a few things along the way
- make a collage
- draw what you gathered
- draw your pet - or a loved one - without looking at the page
- ALTERNATIVE: draw with eyes closed
- ✔ cut a simple shape out of junkmail or scrap paper (lots of triangles, circles, whatever) & make a collage - do it quick without thinking
- ✔ make a quick scribble on the page
- look at it & turn it into something
- draw the spaces in with colour
- ✔ divide the page into 5 to 7 unequal sections & fill in each on differently
- who's your favourite artist? write them a fan letter
- ✔ choose a couple of their paintings & imitate their style (not a reproduction, make a painting in the same style)
jun 25 2011 ∞
aug 3 2011 +