We've all done this at some point. Laying on our back in the grass looking up into the sky trying to see things in the clouds. The art of being able to take an abstract shape and use it to see what it was not intended to be. Your creative exercise is to take the negative spaces provided on the handout and draw what isn't there.
Be creative, push yourself and have fun.
Handout: In-class assignment
This shows how it works. Any orientation can be used be it upside down or sideways etc. Try to conform your drawing to align with the grey squiggle. It's using existing shapes and you have to read into those shapes what isn't there.
We all did this as kids looking up into the sky and using our imagination would take the shapes and relate them to something. Same creative principle in this exercise. Have fun.
Ch. 5 Cultivating Creativity
Seven Characteristics of Creative Thinking
- Receptivity (open to new ideas and welcome new experiences)
- Curiosity (asking questions like "How does it work" and "How can it work better")
- Wide Range of Interests (a creative person can make a wider range of connections)
- Attentiveness (realizing that every experience is valuable)
- Connection Seeking (seeing the similarity among seemingly disparate parts)
- Conviction (creative people value existing knowledge)
- Complexity (a creative person needs to combine the rational with the intuitive)
Try the word game find words within
- teamwork
- graduation
- magnificent
- drafty
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