Get a few pieces of paper, and either crayons, or a pen. Take a deep breath, relax. Put crayon or pen to paper and watch what happens. Follow it like you are following a bug. As soon as your brain starts thinking of what you are drawing, switch crayons. As soon as you think the line should go right, go left. Let the drawing tool move from your hand without your brain controlling it. Anything that comes out of your hand is the right thing. When you are finished, if you are not completely satisfied with your drawing, cut it up and reassemble it.
Share your drawings to this post on our Facebook page. (#salchallenge)
The January Creative Challenge: 15 minutes, once a day, for 30 days.
Blemmyes are mythical creatures without a head, with their facial features on their chest. Blemmyes are said to occur in two types: with eyes on the chest or with the eyes on the shoulders. Epiphagi, a variant name for the headless people of the Brisone, is sometimes used as a term referring strictly to the eyes-on-the-shoulders type. One of the creative …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9888″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Wordsmith Studio Found poems are the literary equivalent of a collage, often made from newspaper articles, street signs, graffiti, speeches, letters, books, online texts (v-notes?), or even other poems. For today’s challenge, take an existing text and refashion it, reorder it, to make a poem. Thank you for sharing your …
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Get a few pieces of paper, and either crayons, or a pen. Take a deep breath, relax. Put crayon or pen to paper and watch what happens. Follow it like you are following a bug. As soon as your brain starts thinking of what you are drawing, switch crayons. As soon as you think the line should go right, go left. Let the drawing tool move from your hand without your brain controlling it. Anything that comes out of your hand is the right thing. When you are finished, if you are not completely satisfied with your drawing, cut it up and reassemble it.
Share your drawings to this post on our Facebook page. (#salchallenge)
The January Creative Challenge: 15 minutes, once a day, for 30 days.
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