Inspiration in Every Corner

Artists are too often lacking their creative muse, their inspiration, ideas that pay the bills. Art is reactionary work, not very often do you wake up ready to create something great and original. Creating something from nothing is harder work than say, your average day at the auditing house or security detail. There are no guarantees that what you put down, put out will be well received - unless what you’re putting out is your body.

So how do we generate these ideas? By poking fun at the shit around us, silly.

1. Take a walk and make a list of items that you find on the sidewalk. Don’t touch them; you never know where that needle has been.

2. Collect color chips from a Home Depot and lay them out. Make “ugly” combinations.

3. Illustrate your list of tasks or groceries.

4. Create a fictional character.

5. Go out for Thai food and notice the interactions of shape and color.

6. Hang out at a tattoo parlor for an afternoon and witness handy work on a live canvas.

7. Make a copy of your favorite photo and alter it with magic marker.

8. Video yourself dancing and try to recreate the motion.

9. Hang upside down and attempt to trace the shapes floating around in your eyes

10. Try to describe the beat of the song you are listening to using only metaphors. 

Post by laura on 02/17
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