31 Days of Art Prompts︎︎︎
One way to get inspired and motivated when
facing a blank canvas or trying out a new artistic medium is through art
prompts. ArtPlacer has put together 31 prompts for you to do every day for a
month. The goal is to make it a habit to tackle new creative challenges and
keep your creativity flowing. You can do these prompts at home, in a studio, or
even in a classroom. Feel free to use any medium you prefer, such as painting,
dancing, performing, or photography, etc.
Art prompts not only spark your creativity but also help you practice your art skills every day. They cover various topics, from basic shapes to capturing your surroundings in your chosen medium. Additionally, art prompts provide an opportunity to experiment with different techniques and tools.
We all have creative potential, but to keep those innovative ideas flowing, we need to exercise our creative muscles. That's why the ArtPlacer team has created an Art Prompt Guide with 31 universal ideas, subjects, and themes. These prompts can be adapted to any medium and will boost your creativity.
Concepts:
1. Your favorite character
2. A happy memory
3. Portray an emotion
4. Your safe place
5. A self-portrait
6. A splash of color
7. Golden hour
8. Hands
9. A close-up
10. A remix of your favorite artwork
11. Theme: the 10th image saved on your phone
12. A treasure
13. Silhouettes
14. A desire
15. Your surroundings
16. Eyes
17. Black & White
18. Theme: sky
19. A place you want to visit
20. Something you can’t live without
21. Challenge: do it with your eyes closed
22. An icon
23. Theme: shadow
24. A guilty pleasure
25. Challenge: use a medium you have never worked with before
26. A sound
27. Underwater
28. A cover for your favorite album
29. Theme: time
30. Challenge: use only geometrical shapes
31. An achievement
Recommended Tools & Supplies:
- Pencils, crayons, markers, and pens
- Acrylic and oil paints, as well as watercolors
- Paper sheets
- Canvas
- Journal
- Materials for collages
- Brushes
- And digital art tools like editing software, drawing pads, and stylus pens.
- Any found object
- A group of people
- Whatever you find interesting to work with
Art prompts not only spark your creativity but also help you practice your art skills every day. They cover various topics, from basic shapes to capturing your surroundings in your chosen medium. Additionally, art prompts provide an opportunity to experiment with different techniques and tools.
We all have creative potential, but to keep those innovative ideas flowing, we need to exercise our creative muscles. That's why the ArtPlacer team has created an Art Prompt Guide with 31 universal ideas, subjects, and themes. These prompts can be adapted to any medium and will boost your creativity.
Concepts:
1. Your favorite character
2. A happy memory
3. Portray an emotion
4. Your safe place
5. A self-portrait
6. A splash of color
7. Golden hour
8. Hands
9. A close-up
10. A remix of your favorite artwork
11. Theme: the 10th image saved on your phone
12. A treasure
13. Silhouettes
14. A desire
15. Your surroundings
16. Eyes
17. Black & White
18. Theme: sky
19. A place you want to visit
20. Something you can’t live without
21. Challenge: do it with your eyes closed
22. An icon
23. Theme: shadow
24. A guilty pleasure
25. Challenge: use a medium you have never worked with before
26. A sound
27. Underwater
28. A cover for your favorite album
29. Theme: time
30. Challenge: use only geometrical shapes
31. An achievement
Recommended Tools & Supplies:
- Pencils, crayons, markers, and pens
- Acrylic and oil paints, as well as watercolors
- Paper sheets
- Canvas
- Journal
- Materials for collages
- Brushes
- And digital art tools like editing software, drawing pads, and stylus pens.
- Any found object
- A group of people
- Whatever you find interesting to work with
︎︎︎from Artplacer
Welcome to mapping collaboration, a toolbox for workshopping and creating across disciplines...
In spite of a long history of interdisciplinary creation, from our earliest recorded arts to our present moment, artistic pedagogy has created divisions between disciplines. This has left artists in a "post-Babel" condition where we don't share the same language and definitions. It’s also encouraged artists to develop practices for devising, creating and composing work that are distinct to their disciplines.
In spite of a long history of interdisciplinary creation, from our earliest recorded arts to our present moment, artistic pedagogy has created divisions between disciplines. This has left artists in a "post-Babel" condition where we don't share the same language and definitions. It’s also encouraged artists to develop practices for devising, creating and composing work that are distinct to their disciplines.
The inspiration for this project came from faculty and students at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts where BFA, MFA and PhD programs in Dance, Theatre Production and Design, Visual Art, Film, and Music and Sound all work together in studio settings and playfully experiment with processes of art-making.
We wanted to create a database of projects, assignments and theory that we collect inside the studio and from research happening in other places. We are curious about how we collaborate and how structures reoccur, translate and deviate from one discipline to another.
Composition is central to these processes and offers a base for our approaches and experiments. We are excited about what our students are doing and inspired by the new languages in contemporary art and performance we continue to see develop.
︎︎︎select a category above to build assignments, learn more about how artists process ideas across disciplines and to create a collaborative process of your own
︎︎︎these tools are collected and used in workshops and classes; some are resources from artists; some are quotes about art-making and how bodies think and listen; others are ideas to expand and disrupt your own training and processes.
︎︎︎Each idea is intentially short- and not meant to be executed as written, but to be adapted to your own practice and specific project/context. Some may be taken in parts or combined with others to spark new ways of training and making together.
︎︎︎submit your own ideas and tools so we can keep building this site!
︎︎︎select a category above to build assignments, learn more about how artists process ideas across disciplines and to create a collaborative process of your own
︎︎︎these tools are collected and used in workshops and classes; some are resources from artists; some are quotes about art-making and how bodies think and listen; others are ideas to expand and disrupt your own training and processes.
︎︎︎Each idea is intentially short- and not meant to be executed as written, but to be adapted to your own practice and specific project/context. Some may be taken in parts or combined with others to spark new ways of training and making together.
︎︎︎submit your own ideas and tools so we can keep building this site!
