Sunday
May012011
A Project List For You (Part 3)
Sun, May 1, 2011 at 07:50PM "Color is the place
where our brain
and the universe meet.
~ Paul Klee
It's time to get your creative plans rolling. In Part 1, get your summer project ideas organized and keep track of materials. Tons of children's projects + creative fun in Part 2, and now some fun just for YOU.
When targeting projects, remember to factor in humidity, longitude, historical relevance, curb appeal, square footage, depth of field, danger of landslide, metric conversion, temporary amnesia, boiling point, acidity, metabolism, HTML entity code; do not stand up while the ride is still in progress.
- Create a huge art journal page
- Describe one week via slow journaling
- Spark a new page.... Kick-Start Your Art Journal
- Make an art journal background by texturing acrylics with fiber paste
- Make word charms
- Use bubble wrap to create an art journal background
- Use a brayer to make plaid backgrounds
- Weave paper artist trading cards
- Carve eraser stamps with an x-acto knife
- Invent story time for your kids
- Gather flowers and dye journal backgrounds with flower petals
- Refine your line drawing skills with line practice
- Make FIMO pendants to share
- Try black gesso in your art journal
- Each week, document your garden in words, sketches + photos in a nature-themed art journal.
- Explore doodle embroidery... no rules
- Do the creative experiments challenge for one month
- Start an art journal at Art Journaling 101 and ideas at Messy Pink
- Make artist trading cards from abstract art
- Make psychedelic batik cardstock with scrapbook paper
- Make a grunge accordian book or a doodle accordian book
- Find a zillion ideas at Got 20 Minutes?
- Draw from a photograph
- Do things with your art
- Make Groovy Printed Papers for your art journal
- Chop up your abstract art and art journal pages for collage fodder
- Get entranced with inks
- Get a sewing machine and sew paper
- Learn how to make stamps from bits from the hardware store {inspired by Print & Stamp Lab
by Traci Bunkers}
More...
- Try a recipe at Tea & Cookies
- A Long List of Crafty Links from The Long Thread
- At iHanna, create a Colour Sketch Book, write in your art journal at art journaling and text, design a book with a year of photographs, and all of Hanna's fun tutorials in one spot
- A Summer Project List (Part 1) and A Project List for Kids (Part 2)
- The Official Guide to Daisy Yellow Creative Prompts
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Reader Comments (4)
Like your list a lot! I popped over and read your list of books to maybe read, and had to laugh. I just co-founded an email discussion list for Bird by Bird. Wanna join us?
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great list...I will work on ours very soon with my 3 kids and share a link when i post it on my blog. thanks again!
LOVED these posts! I subbed to your blog so i can be inspired - you've given so many *beautiful* ideas - i've got seven children and i think one more paper plate mask and i will run away and join the circus - these are so gorgeous and i can't wait to try the "make your own zine", or the art cards, batik cardstock, eraser stamps - the quote book! So many fun, beautiful things! Thanks for sharing!
A fun list. I think I'll try the HUGE art journal page some day.