Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit back and enjoy scrolling through all the beautiful things we’ve collectively created, and celebrate the fact that humans can be awesome!
Some random sketches this week, done over the last two weeks. Honestly, it’s a miracle I’ve had time for these even, the last week has been so busy >.<
This one was actually done three weeks ago in my diary during a brain break:
This one was down at the local park/playground while the kids played last weekend (like, a week ago, not yesterday’s weekend):
And this one was done in class with my students; the task was to respond to Xavier Pick’s guest lecture (I mentioned that here) and some of them were having trouble starting, so I did the exercise along with them just to show them the process, I guess? I started with a vague idea of responding to one of his artworks that he’d shown us that he’d made in response to viewing first-hand the conflict generated by the demand for oil (Pick spent time as a war artist in Iraq in the early 2000s) and went from there. This is my extremely rough remembrance of something like his painting – it’s just enough to remind me of what his painting was like, which is sufficient purpose, I think. And then, as he has done with some of his works, I wrote all over it, just processing very simply what my thoughts were as I remembered what he’d been talking about.
The point is, if you just let yourself REACT on the page, instinctively and without filtering or judging it, that’s how you get to the core of a) what you’re thinking, b) what’s important to you and thus c) eventually to Good Art. <3
So. Go forth, react on paper to the world in some way, and (as Neil Gaiman frequently says,) Make Good Art. <3 Love ya.
And now, what have you made this week? Don’t forget to tag your contribution, or even better, leave a link in the comments!! I love seeing what inspiring things other people have made 🙂 🙂 🙂