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The Scribble Project

These are fun little sheets you can print off and use as a prompt for your journal. They ask you to load it up to flickr when your done. Pretty cool I'm loving this website!

Totem Doodle

I found this website via the Doodler's Anonymous twitter. It's epically cool and makes you think of what you can draw in a small square. My high school art teacerh (Mrs. Friedman) had an exercise where you were asked to grid off a page in 1 inch squares, it had tobe precise, she checked it, then in each square you had to make marks, had to come up with as many different marks as possible. You scored better if your marks were all diddferent or you came up with ideas to make the grid work with itself. You could cross your lines (no crosshatching and no scribbles). It's a great exercise for a lot of different work. I feel li ke the totem project is a rift on that.

Whe I'm partilarly blocked I go back to this or a riff on it. Sometimes I draw equal sized circles on a page in my journal and fill them in with marks or faces. I"ve also folded a sheet of paper into equal sized yet small sections and done the grid exercise. I'm not as militant about no scribbles or cross hatching, after all rules were made to be broken and the idea is to free myself to get out of the rut.

try making a few 2 inch squares in your journal, go ahead now fill them in...

Hump Day Prompt: Ink Wash

Get 3 waterproof containers. In the first put 3 drops of ink, the next 5 and the last 8.
Add to each jar 1oz of filtered water. Mix well.

Start with the lightest shade and start an image.
Work your way through an image, adding darker darks until you work your way up to straight india ink.

Try a springy liner brush and a small mop.

Ink wash is fun and forgiving.

Hump Day Prompt: Crayon Resist by TimeWithTascha

This week's HD Prompt is from YouTube's TimeWithTascha

All about crayons and using them as a resist. It's short it's fast. Watch it.

Hump Day Journal Prompt: What Would You DO?

Imagine that you are browsing eBay and you find art that looks very similar to yours that you did when younger. You click on it and when the screen finished loading you recognize it as definitely yours. You read the listing and realize that a former room mate is selling off your art. The art isn't finished, not all of it.

You recognize that the art is from a journal that you couldn't find when you moved out. You realize that the room mate took your journal.

Think about it and write about what you would do, how would you approach it? What steps would you take to fix the issue? How would you feel- betrayed, mad, sad?

Hump Day Prompt: Musically Inclined

What do you listen to when you create?
A 30g MP3 player full of your favorite tune on random?
Sat radio? NPR? The sounds around you?

Why do you listen to what you listen to?
What inspires you in your surround sound?

Hump Day Prompt: What's Your Morning Routine?

How do you start your day? Think through it
Mine starts with hitting snooze once, grinding beans, brewing coffee and most mornings a shower, then a cup of coffee. Think it through; then journal it. Draw it. Paint it.

Hump Day Prompts: So Simple It Hurts: Outside

Go outside: draw/journal/paint or whatever it is you do, just go outside and do it.

Do it while the weather is good- before it gets too hot or too cold and you have an excuse to not go outside. Just do it.

Pack a lunch and go.

Stop with the excuses and do it.

HD Prompt: Getting Out!

Here's a Hump Day prompt for ya:
What have you been doing outside of your home? It could be outside, going to a favorite place, eating out etc. But how are you getting out? What are you doing? Who are you seeing? Where are you going?

Write about it.
Draw about it.
Add color.
Think about it.

Blog it.

Hump Day Prompt: What band?

The recent reunion of New Kids on the Block has been heating up the news websites. Since I live under a rock I just found out about this today. It made me think, because I could care less about NKOTB, I actually disliked them as a teen, and I was probably one of the few teen girls that didn't like them.  But it made me wonder what band would I stay up for tickets all night ,wait in long lines and make repeated calls to Ticket master? What band did I first listen to as a teen that completely blew my mind, what album did I listen to over and over? What tapes did I splice together because I broke them?

For me there is only one band that I would go that distance, only one band that blew my mind like that. NKOTB it ain't. But what is your band, Journal it.

(For the record for me its The Pixies. Wave of Mutilation was a formative CD for me. I played it over and over, put songs from it on all mix tapes I ever made, I listened to it when I was happy, sad and in teen angst mode. Even today, when I listen to that CD I love it.)