Art Journaling Prompts: Creative Writing Ideas for Writing in Art Classes. Creative Writing Ideas for Writing in Art Classes Art journaling prompts offer rich creative writing ideas. Whether keeping composition book art journals, individual art journal pages, or art history journals, art prompts keep writing skills polished. In other articles, we've discussed creative writing ideas and writing across the curriculum, we've discussed the value of content area writing. Creative writing within the context of any academic subject helps students deepen their understanding of content knowledge, as well as develop skills in applying the traits of good writing across various formats. Fine arts classes explore a range of media. Whether your current materials include crayons, art tissue, tempera or watercolor paints, art journaling prompts add a depth and richness to project activities and lesson plans.
Art Journaling Prompts for Visual Art Journals Here are some art journaling prompts to get you started in writing creatively within your art classes: Grocery Bag “Yarn” | When people see the handbags some of us carry around they never believe that we’ve made them from regular grocery bags. I bet I’ve been asked about 65,000 times in the last few years–”How can you possibly crochet with a grocery bag?” Consequently, this story has been told quite a bit, but never here on the blog. So, for those of you who’d like to know—this is how you do it. Take one innocent looking grocery–the thin, noisy kind–and smooth it out flat. Fold it in half lengthwise and smooth out again. Fold in half again, and smooth out. Cut off the bottom seam, and the handles at the top. Fold in half again. Cut the strip into 1 inch pieces… until you’ve cut the whole strip. Open up the loops… Remember making rubberband chains when you were a kid? Well, it’s like that.
Pull one loop through the other until… they knot together. -pretty much like yarn. It’s a great way to recycle those silly bags and make our own teeny tiny dent in the local land fill. And now you know the true secret of the universe. Art Journal Prompt: Personalize a Famous Painting — Journaling Saves. Art Journaling prompt by Randi Feuerhelm-Watts, along with her results. From the creativity kit “Wide Open: Inspiration and Techniques for Art Journaling on the As I mentioned in yesterday’s post about art journaling prompts, I’m proposing a group project that anyone can join in on. My creative cohort Joni and I will be tackling a specific prompt from Wide Open: Inspiration and Techniques for Art Journaling on the Edge.
(Check out my review for complete details and photos of this creativity kit.) While purchasing the boxed set is not necessary to follow along with us, I highly recommend it because it’s so beautiful and packed full of fabulous inspiration. You can purchase it on Amazon. So choose a famous painting and go to town incorporating it into your own work of art. Have fun, and feel free to share your results, or any comments about the process itself. Get inspiration delivered fresh to your inbox! Rhomany's Realm | art journal prompts. You don’t have to say a lot for it to be meaningful. Theodore Roosevelt's diary entry the day his wife died. Many who keep art journals find it easy to do the art and more difficult to put the words into them. We create beautiful backgrounds and images and then we fret that we will spoil them by writing on them. We worry that what we have to say isn’t important enough, that our handwriting isn’t neat enough, that we will write too much or too little.
So we use quotes. We substitute our own words with someone else’s, someone more famous, more worthy of note. We take the words of great men and women, and instead of being inspired by them to write something of our own we succumb to the belief that their words say what we think better than what we say ourselves. Try this: Make up a quote that sounds like it was said by someone else, but is in fact your own. You could take on the style of a favourite poet or writer for your quote. When in doubt, try something simple. For example, Art Journaling 101 - abstract - art journaling . creative prompts . doodling . photography. How do you start an art journal? "Art journaling is about the {creative process} of pulling together color, words and images as you wish on a page. Unlike many other forms of art, it is not about the outcome. "Tammy Garcia Original post 2008 * Updated March 2014 Welcome to Art Journaling 101 If you are just starting to bring art into your life, or wish to introduce kids & teens to art journaling, check out Art Journaling 101 for Kids, Teens & Beginners.
I'll begin with a note that the type of art journaling that I talk about is very loose and free and unencumbered by rules. 1. 1,000 Artist Journal Pages by Dawn DeVries SokolSpilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself by Sabrina Ward HarrisonThe Journal Junkies Workshop, by Scott and Modler Good Mail Day by Jennie HinchcliffJournal Spilling by Diana TroutCreative Illustration Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists by Katherine DunnPersonal Geographies: Explorations in Mixed-Media Mapmaking by Jill K. By Annie LamottThe Art Journal Workshop 2. . ➸ Note! 3. Expressive Art Journal Prompts - Reclaiming Your Authenticity with Creativity. Materials: - Art journal, sketchbook - Black marker, ballpoint pen, felt pens, pencil crayons, patels Method: Finding New Life in Loss Expressing emotion through expressive drawing can help to cathart the feelings of loss and grief, but it does it not always heal the beliefs that feed into grief.
Too often in expressive art we can express or "cathart" out challenging emotions, only to have them return, and cycle back again and again. Moving through the layers of loss and grief can be addressed through a step-by-step process developed by holistic counsellor and expressive art facilitator Barbara Ganim in her book "Drawing from the Heart".
I simplify the process on how to deal with feelings of loss into an abbreviated three week process and I recommend the book "Drawing from the Heart" for a more comprehensive seven week process on how to heal grief and loss with expressive drawing. Accessing, Releasing and Transforming Grief - Access the painful emotion Healing Comes from the Heart 1. 1. 2. 1. Designers Spin Spidey-Worthy Webs From Packing Tape. Packing tape has gotten MacGyver out of many a jam, but he never managed to make an entire home out of the stuff. So he could probably learn something from Viennese/Croatian design collective For Use/Numen. The team uses nothing but packing tape to create huge, self-supporting cocoons that visitors could climb inside and explore. Installed three times in the past year, the next deployment will be next week from June 9–13 at DMY Berlin's International Design Fair, which is now in its 8th year.
The installations, which look like the work of horrifyingly large arachnids, grew in scale and scope as the year progressed, first deployed inside a small Croatian gallery, then an abandoned attic during October’s Vienna Design Week. At the last installation inside Odeon, a former stock exchange building in Vienna, the group used nearly 117,000 feet and 100 pounds of tape. Soap Making Instructions | Soap Making Recipes and Tutorials | Teach Soap. G A L L E R Y. Graffiti Artist Dain Teaches the French About American Beauty at the Lebenson Gallery, Paris. Brooklyn-based graffiti artist Dain's opening his first solo exhibition at the Lebenson Gallery, in Paris' hip Marais district tomorrow. Entitled `Born Again' as a nudge to his use of old-school icons, the show presents pieces made exclusively for the occasion.
The artist's style is deeply cross-genre: he mixes street art references and graffiti with drawing, collage and varnish. Some pieces are pasted and finished in the street, others are destined to canvases. He's made a name for himself by hijacking images of classical beauties and creating urban, deconstructed portraits of 50s Hollywood stars such as Audrey Hepburn or Grace Kelly. This Pop Art-meets-90s-Street-Art pieces expose a society troubled by ephemeral fame and beauty.
On the eve of his opening, he spoke about beauty, fame and black & white. ELLE: How would you describe your technique? Dain: My technique is a mixture of collage, silkscreen, spray paint and writing. ELLE: Would you call yourself a street artist? Dain: Not sure. Font library.