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Posts tagged ‘prompts’

Sometimes the Equinox is the Prompt :-)

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Happy Autumnal Equinox ❤
 
Make art about balance.

Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-)

9/21/2015

Daily Prompt missed yesterday 😦 Oops! So make art about a missed opportunity. 🙂

9/22/2015

Daily Prompt  “Aging, I am a stowaway in the hold of my being.”~Stanley Moss  Make art about aging, about the stages of growing older.

 

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Opportunity Missed and Taken Green Road Sign and Clouds

Sometimes the Prompt is for My Son’s Birthday

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9/20/2015
 
Made my son birthday breakfast 🙂 He turned 27 today, and is both one of my greatest teachers, and my dearest friend. Breakfast involved gravy 🙂 Of course, it did 🙂 We’re Southern ❤ 
 
The rest is gravy.Gravy train. Good gravy!
 
Make art about gravy. Yep. Gravy. 🙂
 
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Sometimes You Have to Let the Prompt Go

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“Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.”~Kahlil Gibran

Make art about releasing control.

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Sometimes the Prompt Makes You Brave

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Made myself do something I was terrified to do.
 
Make art about that moment you push through fear.
 
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Sometimes You Bump Into the Prompt

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Talking with my students about and thinking a lot about tension arising from juxtaposition.
Make art about unexpected juxtapositions.
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Sometimes the Prompt is the Ritual

9/14/2015
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“Like primitives we buried the cat with his bowl”~Jane Kenyon

Make art about burial rituals, about our need for rites.
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Sometimes the Prompt Catches You Unaware

9/13/2015 Woke up hearing the heavens singing 🙂 Had to share ❤

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“I heard an Angel singing/ When the day was springing/ Mercy Pity Peace…”~William Blake

Make art about everyday angels.

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Sometimes the Prompt Cuts Deeply

9/12/2015

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Cutting out a new skirt this morning. Love to see it emerge from the fabric, the art of cutting away. Make art about this emergence from cutting away;

or reenvision one of these old adages, making us see it in some new way:

cut out, cut off, cut bait, cut the cord, cut loose, cut to the chase, a cut above, cut and dried, cut a rug, cut and paste, unkindest cut, cut to the bone, cut and run, cut from the same cloth,cuts both ways.

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Sometimes the Prompt Tastes Like Rain

9/10/2015

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“The taste of every living thing is in the raindrop”~Afaa Michael Weaver

Make art about the taste of weather.

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