Creativity Challenge #2: Make a Valentine’s Artist Date

By: Amy Maricle

The Creativity Challenge #2 is to make an artist date. What is an artist appointment? It'south making a time to get together with another creative soul to brand some art. That'southward it. You can mix things upwards by giving yourselves an artistic challenge or joint project, or simply brand art freely at the same time.

Why Make an Artist Date?

1. Starting the art process can feel intimidating, your commitment to your engagement volition assist you "bear witness up" to make fine art that 24-hour interval.

2. Inspiration flies: Making fine art with someone else oftentimes impacts my art making. I have oftentimes marveled at the way images volition "bound" from one page to another on the other side of the room in a grouping. Have you ever noticed this?

3. Using new materials helps you stretch creatively. Go alee, steal that conte crayon, and while yous are at it, teach your friend how you do that matter with the watercolor brush.

four. Information technology's artistic self-care- why not use positive peer pressure to your advantage? 🙂

v. There are so many reasons why making art together is astonishing, can you assistance fill out the list in the comments?

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How to Meet Other Artists

If you regularly make fine art with others, making an artist engagement shouldn't be also difficult. If still, you have not made art with anyone for a long time, or ever, it can feel very intimidating to inquire.

Information technology'south kind of like standing at Chris Robbins' locker, looking up at that uber tall, James Dean look-alike, request if he would consider going out for coffee and him proverb, "Uh, maybe?" Yeah. Bad-mannered.

Let's endeavour and avert that scenario.

So if request someone on an artist date feels bad-mannered to you, I totally get it! When I was in graduate school, I made art with classmates and friends all the time. Still, after graduate school, several factors, including a move, limited those opportunities.  This year I fix out to modify that.

Finding Other Artists

Where practise yous find other creatives or artists to make art with you lot?

1. Start talking almost art with friends, folks at piece of work, at religious services, or wherever you get. You volition find that you are already connected to people who do a diverseness of artistic activities, yous just never talked near it earlier.

2. Likewise, start some conversations on social media about art. Do some searching for beautiful art , art blogs, and projection ideas on Google and Pinterest  and share them. See who likes, comments, and shares, and you may notice some "subconscious artists" in your existing networks.

three. Bring together Instagram. It's all most images, so information technology's a natural place for artists to share their piece of work, inspire each other, and connect. And if you are feeling shy about sharing your work, know that many of the images that I have seen "liked" the most are detail shots of just a part of a whole piece.

This is a great way to focus on what is working for you lot in a piece, (peachy advice from Flora Bowley) too as a great way to share your fine art without feeling quite so vulnerable.

So far, I accept approached two people through Instagram, and two bloggers. I have two dates set! (I will share all nigh them in a hereafter post.)

How to Inquire Someone Out on an Artist Appointment

First of all, be brave and be assuming. What's the worst someone can say if you ask? "Uh, maybe?" Well if they do, just  move on! (Besides, it will get y'all one footstep further in your "Rejection Therapy," a hilarious experiment I referenced in a previous post.)

Considering I know it can be helpful to have a "cheat sheet" for something like this, allow me tell y'all some of what has worked for me so far.

one. Achieve out to someone whose fine art yous like. Be 18-carat. Tell them why their art inspires you. Talk about your motivation for connecting with more artists and getting more than in touch with your art process.

two. Offer to host them at your art making space, whether that'due south your kitchen table, a gorgeous studio, or at a local buffet over pastry with art journals and portable art supplies. (Ooh, this last one is sounding good, any takers?)

iii. Take an online artist date. If yous discover that you connect with someone in California, and you are in Rhode Isle, meet up on Skype, Google Hangouts, Vsee, or FaceTime. Of course information technology's not quite the same every bit existence in the same physical space, but it will still offering you both connection, inspiration, and encouragement.

What to Brand on Your Artist Appointment

Of course you can make whatever y'all desire on your artist appointment, simply given that information technology's well-nigh Valentine'southward Mean solar day, I idea I'd offer a niggling inspiration. (Given the timeline, you may want to make shamrocks, chicks, bunnies, or Easter eggs.)

I had great fun making these Valentine books, I promise y'all like them. Would you allow me know what you remember in the comments?

I used craft cream I bought at Michael's to cut heart and leaf stamps. I so used a pivot to cut picayune lines and details into them. Click here for a post on making your own stamps. (Stamps are SO much more fun to play with when you brand them, and so cheap! Exercise you notice this too?)

I too pulled out some more simple index cards, a hole punch, and my fun, colorful "O" rings.

I also happen to take a heart-shaped hole punch, so I figured that would exist fun to play with equally well.

You and your date tin can make Valentines, like the ones shown above, or create artist trading cards, (shown below), and merchandise a few with each other, and each walk abroad with a collaborative book.

I kept making more and more Valentines and couldn't stop, so I decided to bind them together in a lilliputian book. Aren't these sweet? Sewing on paper – how absurd is that?

I can't sew that well or embroider, but my trusty Singer lets me do all sorts of fun, rule breaking activities on paper and textile. I dearest paper – the feel, the texture, the sound. Does anyone else love paper the way I do? Are yous a Paper Source fiend? Delight tell me I'm not alone in that.

Share Your Creations on Social Media!

Click here to be added to the Creative Self-Care Facebook group. Share your gorgeous products from your artist engagement and any other creative projects you have going!

Or, share your creation on Instagram using #creativeselfcare.

Want to Observe a Community of Artists in Foxboro, MA?

You can take one of my local fine art classes, click here for more than data.

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