“Creative people make more use of their mental raw material and practice less intellectual regulation.” So says this blog.
A lot of attention is put into how to create great ideas. But what about the dumb ones? Today’s challenge is to draw something inspired by the phrase
“Well that was a dumb idea.”
Yup. And if your drawing doesn’t go well you can blame me, because it was my unfortunate idea that we do a drawing about dumb ideas, and I have no idea what I’m going to draw.
Welcome to day 25! Only five more days to go in our 30 Day Creative Challenge! Tuesdays are “See and Respond” days. Today I have the head and feet of a figure drawing by Paul Cezanne. Your job is to fill in the middle. You can use the original drawing below and make a transcription …
[image_with_animation image_url=”10630″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] My last post was about Botticelli’s Squidgy Feet. In that post, I described Venus’ feet: “These hams are worms. Those are some long second toes, a sign of intelligence, say some. A second toe as long as a finger can be a very attractive feature…” The next day I received …
Chinese-American artist Jeffrey Cheung’s hairy and intertwined queer and trans figures gave me a lift today. Playful and positive, and sweet as ice cream ads, Cheung’s 2016 exhibition featured comfortable peach and pink figures in couplings, but with some minor adjustments to his palette and the numbers of figures, his recent paintings depict multicolored figures in sexually …
One year ago in March, to protect our students and teachers from a new coronavirus, the Seattle Artist League moved our classes online. The virus was declared a national emergency, and we went into quarantine. We have now been in quarantine for thirteen months. Through this year, we have met each other online to draw, …
Dumb Ideas
“Creative people make more use of their mental raw material and practice less intellectual regulation.” So says this blog.
A lot of attention is put into how to create great ideas. But what about the dumb ones? Today’s challenge is to draw something inspired by the phrase
“Well that was a dumb idea.”
Yup. And if your drawing doesn’t go well you can blame me, because it was my unfortunate idea that we do a drawing about dumb ideas, and I have no idea what I’m going to draw.
Cheers
Ruthie
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