Idea No. 138: May Something
the idea: every day in May post a picture of something that someone has made On June 1st, Don’t Make Art, Just Make Something, the book that has taken over my life …
Idea No. 137: How Do I Begin?
the idea: record a spoken word poem from Don’t Make Art, Just Make Something How do I begin? Nobody tells you that. They show up to our graduations, say …
Idea No. 136: Hate begets hate, love begets love.
Hate begets hate. This week a few people filled with hate have succeeded in spreading fear, in spreading pain, in spreading doubt. Don’t let them succeed in spreading hate. We, …
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Idea No. 135: ThunderDream Fan Art
the idea: draw my version of ThunderDream ideator: Andrea Gill This is once again a guest idea that I am typing up. After all Andrea, my old college roommate, was amazing …
Idea No. 134: The Pink Elephants
the idea: create a pink elephant as an example for the puppet project You may or may not remember, but a few ideas back I had another puppet named Feathers. Today …
Idea No. 133: THUNDERDREAM
the idea: create my superheroine-alterego, ThunderDream The strangest things come up in conversation when you’re eating dinner with a good group of people. For example, tonight we went from the events …
Idea No. 132: A Collaborative Flower
the idea: make a drawing with a student Last week I was teaching a class where we were using oil pastels and as the children began to draw I started to …
Idea No. 131: Salty Watercolors
the idea: sprinkle salt on a drying watercolor painting This is an old art-teachers trick that I have learned from too many different people to just credit one. however I did …
Idea No. 130: Talk at a Conference
the idea: sign-up to speak at a conference Speaking in front of large crowds of people can be terrifying. I’ve done it for various reasons with various results. As a musician, …
Idea No. 129: Paint Sculpture
the idea: make a sculpture out of my students’ leftover impasto paint As an art instructor, I see way too art materials being thrown away. Usually there’s nothing I can …