ART Spark
Setting aside time in your day to do a quick art activity can be restorative and get your creative juices flowing. Here are some quick, easy, and fun projects. Ready, set, CREATE!
Doodle
Write your name, word, or heart in the center of the page. Then draw one continuous line around it. Draw one continuous line around the perimeter or a series of radiating lines.
Blind Contour Drawing
Without looking down on your paper, draw an object with one continuous line. This can be you hand, plant, pet or piece of fruit. Look in a mirror and draw a self-portrait.
Mandala
Using a collection of pens or utensils, create a mandala by organizing elements so they are radially symmetric and the elements radiate outwards from the center.
Foil Sculpture
Using aluminum foil, create a sculpture that expresses a word such as fire, water, air, flight or an emotion such as hope.
Scribble
Draw a loose squiggly lines. Like seeing forms in clouds, turn your scribble into an image. Add eyes to make a creature. Or perhaps you see a flower and add a vase. Or a spaceship? A variation is to crumple up a piece of paper and see images in the random fold lines. If you have ink, make a Splat figure.
Collage
Gather scraps of paper, fabric or other materials: newspapers, magazines, twine, and netting. Anything goes! Now arrange the items into a composition. It can be a shape or free form. Mix it up tear or cut , play with scale and color.
As part of their practice, some artists use collaging as starting points for their paintings.
Choreography
Choreography is designed sequences of physical movements. Move in space to spell out your name or a word that is meaningful to you.
Try using your whole body and taking up space. Expand from big to small and high to low.
Impromptu Sculpture
You don't need special building blocks to create a sculpture. Grab a few items from around you and stack them up. See how tall or wide you can get them.
For added fun, challenge a friend to a timed sculpture building contest such as our fork lift game.