- Go for a walk. Draw or list things you find on the 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 in a book.) Write about 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.
- 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 hours.
- 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.
- Transform 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 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.
- Divise a journal entry using “layers”.
- Divise 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”.
Your Choice - Write a Birthday Message to one who's celebrating her birthday!Your Choice - Take a picture of one interesting book you see in a bookstore.Your Choice - Take a picture of your classmates.Your Choice - Visit a cupcake store.Your Choice - Show an item that you'd love to buy.
And here's the order on how I have done them one by one.
#25 Read a book in one day.
#64 Physically alter a page. (i.e. cut a hole, pour tea on it, burn it, fold it, etc.)
#70 Do nothing.
#76 Draw the sun.
#94 List 10 of your habits.
#37 List all of the places you’ve ever lived.
#96 Your Choice Write a Birthday Message to one who's celebrating her birthday!
#97 Your Choice Take a picture of one interesting book you see in a bookstore.
#98 Your Choice Take a picture of your classmates.
#99 Your Choice Visit a cupcake store.
This is Everyday Mom located near the office where I'm having my internship.
This is Everyday Mom located near the office where I'm having my internship.
#100 Your ChoiceShow an item that you'd love to buy.
#20 Write a haiku.
#58 List your ten most important things, (not including animals or people.)
#69 What were you thinking just now? write it down.
#4 Draw your dinner.
#11 Make a list of everything you buy in the next week.
#12 Make a map of everywhere you went in one day.
#59 List ten things you would like to do every day.
#71 Write a list of ten things you could to do. Do the last thing on the list.
#72 & #62 Create an image using dots.Write an entry in your journal in really LARGE letters.
So far, so good. To my partners, I have enjoyed this swap, but I think it'll be better to have lots of other ideas. I didn't get to play around that much with this swap as I suddenly got schoolwork. Hmm, I hope that I can be more productive.
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