{ So you need to start your 6 th concentration and you have no idea what to do next…. #APDRAWINGPROBLEMS

Frustrated? Angry? Hate your concentration? Bored?

Wake up and SNAP OUT OF IT!!!!!!

Look to other artists for INSPIRATION n_art_timeline.htm _art_timeline.htm DO SOME RESEARCH

 Paint without any outlines on your paper!  Attach your medium to a YARD STICK and draw really far away from your paper  Draw or Paint in the dark!  Use UNREALISTIC colors  Make a WACKY DRAWING TOOL ----   Leave out some information about your subject  Let your art medium drip, smudge, streak etc.  If painting, use a really small brush or a really large oversized brush DO something DIFFERENT

Change up the COMPOSITION

Don’t just make marks…Make YOUR mark

Albrecht Durer

Hatching and cross hatching

Egon Schiele, contour line

Egon Schiele: Let your brush strokes show

Francis Bacon Layer marks

Make textures, scratch into your surface Wendy mcwilliams

STUCK ON A PROJECT??? S.C.A.M.P.E.R off To NEW POSSIBILITIES!

  Substitute   Take your subject/idea and ask; what can you substitute? What can be used instead? Who else instead? What other images? Other materials? Other processes? Other places? Other approaches?   Ask yourself: Instead of ____I can _____ investigation+growth

  Combine What can you combine or bring together somehow? How about a using multiple images to create one new image? What materials, features, processes, people, products or components can I combine?   Ask yourself; I can bring together ___ and ____

Adapt What can you adapt for use as a solution? What else is like this? What other idea does this suggest? Does the past offer a parallel? What could I appropriate? Who could I emulate? What part of the idea/subject could I change? And in exchange for what? What if I were to change the characteristics of a component? Ask yourself; I can adapt____ in this way _____to ___

Modify Can you change the item in some way? Change meaning, color, form, or shape? What are other changes? What if I distort the image? Exaggerate the image? Also: Magnify : What can you add? Longer? Thicker? Extra value? Duplicate? Multiply? Exaggerate? And: 'Minify' : What can you remove? Make smaller? Condense? Make lower, shorter or lighter? Omit? Streamline? Split up? Understate ? Ask yourself; I can change ___ in this ____way to____

  Put to other uses or purposes How can you put the idea to different or another use or purpose? New ways to see it? Other uses if it is modified?   Ask yourself; I can re-use _____ in this way____by____

  Eliminate What can you eliminate? What can be removed? Think of what might happen if you eliminated various parts.   Ask yourself; I can eliminate ____ by_____

  Rearrange   What can be rearranged in some way? Interchange components? What about the order or sequence? Transpose images? Reverse images? What about different angles ?   Ask yourself; I can rearrange _____ like this _____such that______