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

2. Frustrated? Angry? Hate your concentration? Bored?

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

4. Look to other artists for INSPIRATION http://artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/timelines/moder n_art_timeline.htm http://artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/timelines/western _art_timeline.htm DO SOME RESEARCH

5.  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

6. Change up the COMPOSITION

17. Don’t just make marks…Make YOUR mark

18. Albrecht Durer

19. Hatching and cross hatching

20. Egon Schiele, contour line

21. Egon Schiele: Let your brush strokes show

22. Francis Bacon Layer marks

23. Make textures, scratch into your surface Wendy mcwilliams

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

25.   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

26.   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 ____

27. 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 ___

28. 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____

29.   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____

30.   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_____

31.   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______