Creative Idea of the Day - July 2024
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01 - Transform an everyday scene into an extraordinary one.
02 - Plan, do, document, and maybe share a solo adventure or activity. 03 - Decorate plain cardboard/shoe boxes for storage, decor, or gift-giving by covering them with magazine pages. 04 - Start a new hobby. 05 - Create a 30-day challenge for yourself (or your friends and yourself!) for art, songs, music, self-care, cooking, food, culture, fitness, language, writing, photography, local adventure, travel, or something else. Blog, journal, share the list. 06 - Pick a line from a poem or song you like and use it as the jumping off point for a poem of your own. 07 - Create a colour wheel where each colour represents a different emotion. Use them to express and track your emotions each day through drawings, swatches, images, or written descriptions. 08 - Create a list of activities or places to visit in your town that are free to do or enter. Try them out. Share the list and your adventures. 09 - Add a bizarre or quirky item to your apocalist/bucket list. 10 - Work with a medium that is subtractive, like an eraser or bleach. If using a medium like bleach, you can use cotton swabs to draw with. 11 - When doing reviews/logs/reading challenges and journals of books/movies/music, instead of just writing the name of the media, you could print out the covers on small stickers and place them on the appropriate pages in your journal. 12 - Transform complex data/data sets into art pieces. Use charts, graphs, or other visual representations as a basis for your work, or find another way to translate the data into a visual form. 13 - Choose a random group of words and develop a travel challenge where you create hypothetical travel itineraries - or real ones - routes incorporating destinations, or experiences related to each word. 14 - Think of things you know how to do and write out instructions to teach others how to do them. 15 - Write a piece that has no verbs. 16 - Set a small challenge for yourself each day, like learning a new word in English or another language, perform a random act of kindness, or something else. It doesn't have to be the same thing. Set yourself the goal of trying something different each day. 17 - Combine travel writing with geocaching, documenting places visited, hidden and found treasures encountered, and recording it in whatever way you see fit. 18 - Think of a favourite quotation, lyric, or saying and find a way to illustrate it. Collage, drawings, still images from cartoons or films, etc. 19 - Explore untranslatable words from different languages that encapsulate feelings or experiences that don't have direct English equivalents 20 - Go for a walk with a bag or box and fill it with objects you find - rocks, lost earrings, pop can tabs, flowers, coins, other ephemera, etc. Take pics to put in the box too. Use the items to create a collage, sculpture, or shadow box. 21 - Create a tiny garden using small plants, moss, stones, miniatures, toys, glass bottles and beads, and creative landscaping. You could also add LED lights. This would work in a planter box too, for those without the space for a garden. 22 - Typeractive! Using a non-functional typewriter, transform it into an art piece by painting it, adding decoupage, add ephemera, redecorate the keys, or use it as a base for a mixed media assemblage. 23 - Listen to a new podcast or TED talk each day/week. I'm so very guilty of forgetting these things exist, and yet there's such a richness of them. Great fodder for conversation, writing, a media “book” club, other projects, or just for you. 24 - Draw a landscape using only dots. 25 - Take a photo of something that makes you happy. 26 - Never been in there before? Go in there. 27 - (missed) 28 - Write about your favourite solo activities or hobbies. 29 - Make a cartoon inspired by something you read - news, human interest, educational, a book, a sign, a pamphlet, etc. 30 - Draw a still life using only shades of one colour. 31 - Pick a favourite art supply and show others how you use it. |
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