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Posts tagged ‘creativity’

Daily Prompt Love <3 Traffic

1 July 2017

Make art about something unexpected, something magical, happening in heavy, holiday traffic. 

holiday traffic

Daily Prompt Love <3 Bullies, and What's Elemental

29 June 2017

Make art about a bully, about standing up to bullies, or about the need that drives them.

stop bullying

30 June 2017

el·e·men·tal (eləˈmen(t)l/)

adjective

  1. primary or basic.

    “elemental features from which all other structures are compounded”

    synonyms: basic, primary, fundamental, essential, root, underlying; 

    rudimentary

    “the elemental principles of….”

  2. related to or embodying the powers of nature.

    “a thunderstorm is the inevitable outcome of battling elemental forces”

synonyms: natural, atmospheric, meteorological, environmental, climatic

“elemental forces”

Make art about something elemental.

elemental

 

Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Turning It All Off, and Something From Pattiann Rogers 

25 June 2017

Spent the weekend on the electronic grid, phone in airplane mode, no social media, and got some serious writing done, as well as some needed quiet.

Make art about going off the grid, however you interpret that.

socialmedia

26 June 2017

Make art inspired by this line from one of my favorite poets, Pattian Rogers:

Mothers, fathers, our kind, tell me again that death doesn’t matter. Tell me it’s just a limitation of vision ,a fold of landscape,a deep flax-and-poppy-filled gully hidden on the hill….

grieving-child

Daily Prompt Love <3 Shhh…Don't Tell

24 June 2017

Make art about keeping a secret. 

secret

Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 Darkness, Illness, Body

21 June 2017

Make art about finding your way through the dark.

through darkness

22 June 2017

Make art about illness.

illness

23 June 2017

Make art about what the body remembers.

body remembers

Daily Prompt Love <3 Caught

20 June 2017

Make art about getting caught in a storm, literal or metaphorical.

caught in a storm

Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Saying Thank You, Adult Children, & Peace

17 June 2017

Received several thank you emails from my online students today when our class finished. They never understand, I don’t think, how much I have to thank them for ❤

Create a thank you note (written, visual, musical, etc.) to someone else, someone who doesn’t realize how much gratitude your feel for them.

Thank+you+notes

18 June 2017

My son came home this weekend, to celebrate Father’s Day with me 🙂 He says since I’ve been both mother and father, I get to celebrate both days. My mama always joked, If you can stand them til they’re twenty-two, you’ll get them back as friends. 🙂 I am so grateful for those kids, my three closest friends ❤ 

Make art about children as friends. 

friends

19 June 2017

Make art about peacemakers, about working to heal division.

Daily Prompt Love <3 Together We Can

9 June 2017

I’m so excited! Going to be entering into a new creative collaboration with a dear friend. 

Make art about working with others, about the benefits of collaboration. 

collaboration

Daily Prompt Love <3 To Bear Witness

8 June 2017

bear witness

  1.  to show that something exists or is true —+ to His success bears witness to the value of hard work. Rising ticket sales bear witness to the band’s popularity.

  2. formal :  to make a statement saying that one saw or knows something asked to bear witness to the facts She was asked to bear witness at the trial.

Make art about what it means to bear witness. 

Testify

Daily Prompt Love <3 Yes, Please

7 June 2017

Feeling my Southern mama at my shoulder. 

Make art about manners, having them, learning them, lacking them, using them in difficult situations. 

manners

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