CI Day 3 Manual
“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.” - Pablo Picasso
Day Three Assignment: Finding Inspiration Through Sensory Experiences Our five senses can provide us with an endless supply of creative inspiration. They give us access to thoughts, feelings, memories and emotions, which we can then translate into works of art or other creative endeavors. Your assignment for today is to look over the lists of sensory triggers on the Day Three class page and choose at least one from each category to explore. You don’t have to use the words and ideas I listed ... feel free to come up with your own. For each sensory trigger, create a quick and simple interpretation that will express what it means to you. For example, if you choose the “morning coffee” sensory trigger from the Sense of Smell category, write a short paragraph, NO MORE THAN 25 WORDS PLEASE (that’s just a few sentences) about your experience of morning coffee. Then go on to the next category, choose a sense memory or use one of your own, and write another short paragraph. At the end of the assignment, you’ll have five short paragraphs, a total of 125 words or less. You’ll have five inspirations for art projects. And I’ll bet you’re already thinking of scrapbooking layouts you can create ... Create a new folder and label it INSPIRATIONS. File your five paragraphs there, along with any notes you jotted down as you made your observations during the lesson and the assignment. This file will be invaluable to you as an artist. Anytime your senses are stirred, and you feel a sense of inspiration ... anytime you see, hear, touch, taste or smell something and you think to yourself, “I could USE that for a project!” add it to your inspiration file. Keep that file in the same place you keep your Favorites (or Swipes) file. You don’t have to act on every single inspiration as soon as it pops into your head. Sometimes it’s good to let them “marinate” for awhile, and give them time to develop. And yes, sometimes you’ll want to sit right down at the computer and create while the inspiration is fresh in your mind. That’s great too. Whatever the artist in you decides to do. What, how and when we create will be as individual as we are ... but we’ll talk more about that tomorrow!
Creative Inspiration Class
© Jan Walker
digitalscrapper.com
June 2012
Day Three Assignment: Finding Inspiration Through Sensory Experiences Our five senses can provide us with an endless supply of creative inspiration. They give us access to thoughts, feelings, memories and emotions, which we can then translate into works of art or other creative endeavors. Your assignment for today is to look over the lists of sensory triggers on the Day Three class page and choose at least one from each category to explore. You don’t have to use the words and ideas I listed ... feel free to come up with your own. For each sensory trigger, create a quick and simple interpretation that will express what it means to you. For example, if you choose the “morning coffee” sensory trigger from the Sense of Smell category, write a short paragraph, NO MORE THAN 25 WORDS PLEASE (that’s just a few sentences) about your experience of morning coffee. Then go on to the next category, choose a sense memory or use one of your own, and write another short paragraph. At the end of the assignment, you’ll have five short paragraphs, a total of 125 words or less. You’ll have five inspirations for art projects. And I’ll bet you’re already thinking of scrapbooking layouts you can create ... Create a new folder and label it INSPIRATIONS. File your five paragraphs there, along with any notes you jotted down as you made your observations during the lesson and the assignment. This file will be invaluable to you as an artist. Anytime your senses are stirred, and you feel a sense of inspiration ... anytime you see, hear, touch, taste or smell something and you think to yourself, “I could USE that for a project!” add it to your inspiration file. Keep that file in the same place you keep your Favorites (or Swipes) file. You don’t have to act on every single inspiration as soon as it pops into your head. Sometimes it’s good to let them “marinate” for awhile, and give them time to develop. And yes, sometimes you’ll want to sit right down at the computer and create while the inspiration is fresh in your mind. That’s great too. Whatever the artist in you decides to do. What, how and when we create will be as individual as we are ... but we’ll talk more about that tomorrow!
Creative Inspiration Class
© Jan Walker
digitalscrapper.com
June 2012
