Month: April 2016

Bring in copies of your favorite children’s books – universally iconic, or iconic just to you – and trace or sketch characters from them into scenes from your own life. This could be a two-parter, with the first being creating a scene from your world (could be a photo, although I think a drawing in a similar style to the character is particularly nice), and the second being adding a character you love. Another option is scanning and printing pages from these books, so you can cut and paste with them.

There could also be additional prompts, such as:
What does this character means to you?
How can this character help you in your everyday life?
What would this character be doing in your world? What would they be like?
or something entirely unrelated.

Books I’d love to use:
Where the Wild Things Are
Goodnight Moon
The Runaway Rabbit
Olga da Polga
Alice & Wonderland (the pen & ink drawings)
Calvin & Hobbes

Prep:

1: Easy prep — look up images online

2: Medium — bring books

3: More—make copies of pages

(Inspired by http://twistedsifter.com/2014/07/thrift-store-painting-remixes-by-david-irvine/)

This website looks pretty great : http://twistedsifter.com/2012/04/adding-monsters-to-thrift-store-paintings/

Another option is to add monsters to an old painting that the painster-craftser doesn’t like anymore and wants to reinvent.

Prep: Everyone needs a thrift store painting, or an old artwork they don’t want.

diorama

lightbox

frame-making (twigs? etc?)

stained glass

find an image in a subset that makes you feel things — write about it

dice game to come up with prompts – how does this work?  How can we randomize it and make the prompts fun?  Random noun generator? Random feeling generator?

stationary / letterwriting – blank cardstock, watercolor paper cut down to square letter size to draw little image in,

journal-making

paint on glass in frame

found items / LED lights on mirror

shadowbox for passports, etc.

Osmo – figure out how to use, set up, fix ipad

LIX pen ? (3D pen … )

Print or sketch images like this : https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t34.0-12/13141135_10206314966578133_1251695953_n.jpg?oh=45c4978fc6f10a6b704610eb477d20f0&oe=572A5E85

Gallery wall of pictures I’ve collected/drawn (link to thing about ad cards that they’ve collected? postcard quilt thing / inspiration board)