Visual Arts

Keep your CREATIVE flow moving. You can sketch, observe, doodle, reconstruct, curate, collect, describe, research, compare, and make new collections. Choose to engage in one or two activities each day. These can be self designed or use some suggestions below for a starting place:

I can CREATE...

• Complete a sketch a day in any format (make your own, use a current social media site, or draw on found scrap paper). Use some of these prompts if you are not feeling inspired:

• Make your own list of inspiring creative tasks or use this list

• Check out prompts on Inktober Site

• Try out a project on Art Assignment

I can RESPOND...

• Access artwork on Smarthistory, MoMA, Art 21. What connections can you make to your current work? What do you notice? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can you find?

• Ask a living or non living artist to visit your school. Make the case based on what you know and love about this artist. Make your request as an artwork, video recording, or letter. Make it physical or virtual. Consider the following Social Media Sites to contact: Cindy Sherman, Shirin Neshat, Kara Walker, Hannah Hill, Nastya Zerebecki

• You decide: Explain Contemporary Art with EMOJIS

• Let curators from the Tate introduce women in Art and Art History

I can Connect...

• View at least 4 curator's description of their own CONNECTIONS in Art (The MET). What themes do you like or dislike? What themes are missing? Create your own video making connections with a theme of your choice.

• Interested in these topics? Immigration, Industrialization, Women and Suffrage. Use the Image Detector to analyze historical documents and photographs.

I can PRESENT...

• Curate your own collection of works that explore a specific theme. (For example: things that look painful, shoes, outside vs. inside, things that are missing, intention, hairstyles, beauty). Create a physical or a virtual exhibit from this idea.

• Present your own completed works to get feedback. Elink, Instagram, Feedly, Diigo and Seesaw.

If you like to do drawing prompts, here is a large list to help you get started. You can also do your own observational drawing of something in your house ( a cup, a chair, a pet). Choose one, (or more) Draw your image with pencil and color/paint with whatever you have on hand. If you have something to outline with, that is preferable. If you do not have coloring items, simply shade in with your pencil or use your pencil to create pattern designs in your images.

• Draw a llama surfing.

• Draw a fish swimming in something other than water.

• Combine two animals to create a new one.

• Draw a shark eating a cupcake.

• Draw a crab at a birthday party.

• Draw a seahorse in a blizzard.

• Draw a horse throwing a horseshoe.

• Draw a shark waterskiing.

• Draw a squirrel roasting a marshmallow.

• Draw an octopus with spoons for legs.

• Draw a flamingo doing ballet.

• Draw a cat playing a sport.

• Draw a chicken skydiving.

• Draw a Pop Tart lifting weights.

• Draw French fries on a rollercoaster.

• Draw a food eating another food.

• Draw a cookie with googly eyes instead of chocolate chips.

• Draw an annoying orange.

• Draw a donut riding a skateboard.

• Draw a cheeseburger wearing a dress.

• Draw an apple talking to your art teacher.

• Draw a hot dog flying.

• Draw an ice cream cone eating a Popsicle.