Art / Craft


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Postcard

Create a postcard-sized (or sticky note-sized) piece of art each day for a set period of time and create a mosaic/grid work of art at the end.

Print:

Using stone, or wood stump with exposed rings, as a printing surface, apply paint/ink, place paper on it, and rub it gently with your hands, back of a spoon, or roller.

Temperature

Start a temperature blanket that you knit, crochet, or quilt over the course of a set period of time.

Doodle a day

Do a doodle a day and turn them into a grid at the end of the month.

Still Life:

Make a still life of your favourite snack or drink, of mechanical things, or using only shades of one colour.

Graffiti:

Learn how to do some graffiti art, even if it's just on paper.

Distort:

Manually distort printed images to create something glitchy, pixelated, or distorted in some other way.

Monochrome study:

Black and white, greyscale, sepia, or any monochrome you like, in any medium you like. Even text.

Layering:

Practice layering with transparent washes of watercolour or thin layers of acrylic.

Recreate:

Recreate a famous artwork in a simplified form - simpler shapes, fewer colours, etc.

Everyday:

Recreate a famous artwork in whatever size or format you like, using everyday objects.

Shadow:

Trace shadows cast by various objects, and use them to create a surreal landscape.

Drawing:

Use a drawing material of choice to take various rubbings that you can turn into a larger work.

Paint:

Use a squeegee to apply paints to paper and move it/them around. Use those shapes to make something else.

See-through:

Use translucent/transparent materials to create some layered art.

Subtract:

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.

Chalk:

Decorate the sidewalk in front of your home with some sidewalk chalk art or a cheering phrase.

Ugly:

Create an ugly art/visual journal page. Use shapes, textures, and colours you hate, things that clash, abandoned items from other pages, etc.

Wearable:

Create a wearable art piece such as a hat, scarf, or jewellery using unconventional materials.

Charms:

Combine gems, beads, wire, decorative string, and other ephemera, to create charms for people's car rear-view mirrors, or just their windows at home.

Reassemblage:

Cut up images into strips or squares, and reassemble them randomly, or in a misaligned order and then glue them onto a substrate.

Jewellery:

Create a piece of jewellery from old watch parts, bottle caps, etc.

Mobile:

Build a mobile with found objects, old jewellery, mismatched cutlery, etc.

Old:

Combine whole or parts of old, abandoned, and/or unfinished projects into something completely new - include written and visual together.

Sculpture:

Build sculptures from sticks, stones, leaves, and other natural elements and leave them out in the wild.

Floating:

Make a floating collage using lighter weight materials suspended in a frame by fishing line, sturdy thread, or embroidery floss.

Jewelle-re:

Create a sculpture using old jewellery pieces.

Mosaic:

Make a mosaic from old tiles, glass, or stone.


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