the idea: do a drip painting, let it dry, then drip again. And again. And again. This is the last idea in a series inspired by the MFA’s February Vacation week. There have been art activities and children all over the museum and it has been wonderful. Tiring, but wonderful. Although I’ll be working again …
the idea: take a drip painting and cut it out Running a drop-in activity at the MFA means that sometimes there are so many people you can barely keep up and sometimes you’re sitting around waiting for someone to come around. For the past three days I’ve been working at the Free Moving Paint station …
the idea: make paintings using squeeze bottles and gravity I actually can’t take credit for this idea, it was thought of by someone else in the education department at the MFA, but seeing as I’ve already spent two full days teaching it and have two more to go I thought that I would include it. As …
the idea: become a professional Ideator I thought that I was a genius on the train this morning when I thought of the word ideator for someone who creates ideas: idea + creator = ideator Unfortunately, Google found several people for me who had already had this stroke of genius. For a moment this was …
the idea: use PVA to prime a canvas and then paint designs directly onto the color of the yarn Using PVA to prime my knitted canvases was actually an idea Katherine Vetne suggested during the January art critique. I have been experimenting with different ways of painting on knitting, wanting to move past the white gesso. …
the idea: knit a canvas with two yarns together One of my favorite memories happened at Michaels when my sister, mother, and I went shopping for yarn. I was young, somewhere in elementary school, and I picked out these three crazy yarns. Later, once I’d finished the project, my sister told me that she had thought …
the idea: write about the problem of the pencil This is one of the sections in my master’s thesis, Don’t Make Art, Just Make Something, at a very early draft. Originally it was the opening of the book but now, in an attempt to reach more people, it’s just the opening of a section. …
the idea: combine my doodle designs with my abstract paintings I’ve been a bit blocked lately when it comes to my oil paintings. I’ve gone into the studio and looked around but haven’t been able to make myself actually do anything. And yet my creative energy still needs to go somewhere. I’ve been writing a lot, …
the idea: teach about Egypt by making pyramids out of paper I’m sick. It sucks. But life goes on, classes have to happen. Today I dragged myself out of bed to go teach. To lessen the amount of time I was going to spend dragging my germs all over Boston, I decided not to go …
the idea: make an environmentally safe snow melter I’m sure this could actually happen…. right? The snow melter should also zap away colds because I have one right now and that’s why I don’t have another idea to write. I’m probably sick from walking through gigantic piles of snow and splashing in frozen slush puddles. Because …