Keeping sane in crazy days...well one way is to join an online "prompt" group. This one is also on Face Book so that everyone in the group can post their contributions and interpretations. Interpretation is the key to this silliness.
So I have set aside a small journal dedicated to the prompt...it's is set up by an organizer who offers this for free. The reason artists are willing to participate is that they get their name out and they offer further (paid) classes.
Most of the artists are "multi-media" artists...folks who enjoy lots of wild and interesting ideas prompting people to draw more, collage more, and try new techniques.
Karen Abend sets up Sketchbook Revival. It must be a lot of work! Artists tape their 15-20 minute lessons and then she organizes them and sends them out via email subscription at the times she promotes. I think she has hundreds of people on this prompt...which turned out to be WAY more popular than normal for obvious reasons. The point is that she had no way of knowing how well this timing would work out...it just happened that way.
So keep in mind what you see me "playing" with is not meant to be fine art or or not mean to change my style of drawing or my own journal making. It is just "creative play".
Below are the first 3 days of responses from me. There are two artist each day...I get the prompt around 9 am EST. I believe it lasts for 12 days..so 24 prompts. The first artist Carla Sonheim prompted among other things a block set up for one of the pages in the prompt. Optional of course. But I liked it...and I am going to use it to tie the theme of the prompts together. The right page of each response will be blocked off for "daily writing"...a short place to comment on what's going on in my life and in my head. (nice for right now, huh?). Then a place to make a "list". Whatever kind of list I want. Then I've added a place to put a daily Zentangle® (which is my own addition).
The first prompt above was a "blob" prompt. Making imaginary things from little blobs of paint. Just to get creative juices going.
The second two prompts had to do with "collage" making using paper, stencils, and ink (in her prompt it was just a free drawn). And the second was more of a meditative prompt involving drawing a symbolic drawing of yourself or a person in general and accessing the ways you bring joy in to your life. I combined the two.
The third prompt had to do with embracing our own "quirkiness" by drawing a Quirky Bird with distinctive and fun little attributes. I wish I could share the variety of birds that evolved from this. It was AMAZING. People were SO creative. And the second artist talks about font making. Delightful...something I love anyway.
So on to day 4 today.
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