Creative Experiments 2012.rev.02

“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....”
― Kate Morton

Welcome to a new set of creative experiments. The idea behind the experiments is to explore and play off things you already know how to do.

Experiments are by nature experimental. Don't take them too seriously. Don't worry about the outcome. Only the DOING matters. You get creativity points for the DOING.

Creative Experiments 2012.rev.02
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For tracking purposes, each experiment is valued at one creativity point unless otherwise noted.

♥ Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Pick a word, any word. It could be your word of the year, your name, a place or word that is special to you. Write and draw the word in at least 25 different ways. Invent a font, get inspiration from other people's hand lettering (examples: Sketchbook Project by Nicole Duquette and my Line Practice) {check out this completed experiment at Modern Marigold}

♥ Tangents. Listen to a podcast about something out of your area of knowledge. If you don't know how to knit, try a knitting podcast. What about vegetarianism, philosophy, beer brewing? 

♥ Natural Patterns. Collect leaves + acorns + twigs + petals from the garden and make a pattern or mandala on your porch or table.

♥ And on and on. Sketch a stapler and staple the sketch to a piece of paper. Sketch scissors and cut out the sketch. Sketch a tape dispenser and tape it to the fridge. Sketch the fridge and put the sketch in the fridge. Silly is good. See if anyone notices.

♥ Kitchen Art. Cook something new to you! Spinach-onion quiche! Blueberry-strawberry tarts! Meatloaf! Dark chocolate mousse! Beef fajitas! Chicken egg rolls! Matzoh ball soup! 

So, kiddos, grab an ART=HAPPY badge, and get started on the experiments you choose. 

Check out all of the creative experiments!

[Please do not copy/paste the experiments to your site, as excited as you are to do them. The content is copyright Daisy Yellow. Please do link back to the list and post your experiments to share.]