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.
Posts tagged ‘writing prompts’
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.
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.
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.
Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-) Salvage, Reconstruct, and Dreams of Lace
Daily Prompt Catch-Up 😀 Soooo busy around here lately! LOL
9/4/2015
Lots of thinkin this week about salvage. “The wreck is a fact…The salvage trucks back in and the salvage men begin to sort and stack, whistling as they work.”~Kay Ryan Make art about salvage, or salvaging something.
9/5/2015
“Sink, suffer, self-destruct. Rise stronger, reconstruct”~Lamb of God Make art about reconstruction, about reconstructing from what’s left.
9/6/2015
Someone I love is battling cancer. Make art about illnesss or disease.
9/7/2015
Dreamt someone I love brought me yards of unbleached cotton and lace. Make art with flowing white fabric, or lace, or lacing as the central metaphor.
Sometimes the Prompt is the Key :-)
9/1/2015
Dreamt someone I love gave me a ring full of keys and I gleefully skipped around unlocking and throwing open doors. 🙂
Make art about keys, about finding the key. 
Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-) Big Family Weekend :-)
Daily Prompt Catch-Up 🙂
8/29/2015
All my kids coming home for a visit 🙂 Make art about visitors.
8/30/2015
You are my children. You are my jewels. We old ones invest our future in you.” ~Diane Samuels Make art about children, young or adult, or about parenting.
8/31/2015
I’m fixin to go on a sewin binge 🙂 The first known sewing needle came from southwestern France and dates to about 25,000 years ago. When I sew, I feel an endless procession of women surround me, as I, in my small way, add to the story. Make art about sewing, or needlework, or stitching something together.
A set of bone needles from the Cave of Courbet in the Aveyron Valley, near Toulouse, France. Believed to be over 13,000 years old.
When the Dream is the Prompt, or the Prompt is a Dream :-)
8/28/2015
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“I see you in your backyard’s lavender, post-lunch doze, dreaming someone.”~W.S. Di Piero
Make art inspired by lavender, the color or the scent or the flower 🙂 or the feeling 🙂
Daily Prompt :-) In Pieces
8/24/2015
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Woke up feeling like life’s full of promise 🙂 So many dreams last night, but all that remains are shining fragments 🙂
Make art about fragments.
Sometimes the Dream Is the Prompt :-) and the Poem
8/23/2015
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Last night I dreamt of so so many shining spoons, too many spoons to choose from 🙂 Someone I love stood at my side and laughed indulgently at my excitement about all of those spoons LOL
Make art about spoons. 🙂
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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