“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.”
Mary Lou Cook
For today's section, create with no expectations in mind. Let go of having a particular outcome and focus on embracing the process and see where each mark, brush stroke, or pencil line takes you. Build and figure out the next step as you go. See what happens!
If you're not sure where to start, try this exercise (do this directly on your project or on a separate piece of paper to warm up):
- Pick a color. It can be your favorite one, what you feel drawn to today, one that reflects your mood/how you feel right now.
- Gather all the supplies you have in that color.
- Use all of them to fill in your section: scribble, color, make lines, shapes, and patterns, write. Let them layer on top of each other.
Tip: I like to start with the dry materials (crayons, colored pencils) and end with the wet ones (paint) so I don't have to wait for it to dry before moving on to the next material.
Here are 2 examples from my sketchbook. Once I choose a color, I am usually reminded of something and use that to guide my mark making. For black I was thinking of shadows and for red, flames and fire.
