the idea: paint a hat that I crocheted a long time ago I am not a crocheter. I also do not like to use patterns. For these to reasons the two hats that I ever crocheted were perhaps big enough to fit a two year old. Probably more like a baby doll. And yet, though …
the idea: make biscuits with apple juice instead of milk and dye them blue I’ve been snowed in for three days. Not technically snowed in, we can get out our front door, but I haven’t had anywhere to go so I haven’t left. The MFA is closed, I don’t have classes until tomorrow night, and I …
the idea: shovel snow onto a tarp and then drag it Some of the best ideas have been born from attempts to avoid boring chores. This may not have been the best idea, but it did make shoveling snow with my neighbors a lot more fun! Once you get far enough from the pile of …
the idea: have a community paint a windmill for their town This is actually the first community art idea I ever had back when I was a junior in college. My college was basically one huge hill which got quite windy sometimes, so I thought it would be a fun project to try to get …
the idea: take photographs of natural abstraction For someone who has never taken a photography class, I love taking photographs. Maybe it’s specifically because I have no artistic training so for me photographs are just interesting ways to document ideas. Like this one, here. One of the many things I like to photograph is when …
the idea: paint doodles on a lamp This lamp has actually been acting as an important part of my room for a while now. I made it a little over half a year ago when I was still working at a paint-your-own pottery shop. The random pieces I did there to keep me occupied also …
the idea: paint my guitar case I’ve been doing a lot lately. Don’t Make Art, Just Make Something is underway, the Idea Can is going strong, I’ve been getting myself out into the world, and reading my way through a bookshelf full of books on creativity. I love it, I love all of it. The …
the idea: write Sir Ken Robinson a letter and blog it Once people become well known, it is much harder to contact them. But my philosophy for this year is to just try, because the worst thing that happen is nothing. And the best thing is worth that risk. I couldn’t find Sir Ken Robinson’s contact …
the idea: make an interactive piano curriculum I’ve taken classical piano since I was about five years old. I had a wonderful, patient teacher who worked with both me and my sister through the tough years of family divorce and elementary school. She even dealt with the two of us in middle school, which can’t have …
Artists have built for themselves, or had built for them, this stereotype of absent-minded creative abandon. Whether it’s the writer who forgets to eat, drink, or sleep while coming across the next plot point or the painter who can’t find where their paintings are in their over-stuffed house, artists are seen as thriving in creative …