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

By: Amy Maricle

The Creativity Challenge #ii is to brand an artist appointment. What is an artist date? Information technology'southward making a time to get together with another creative soul to make some art. That's it. You tin mix things upward past giving yourselves an creative claiming or joint projection, or just brand art freely at the aforementioned fourth dimension.

Why Make an Artist Engagement?

1. Starting the art process can feel intimidating, your commitment to your date will help you "show up" to make art that day.

2. Inspiration flies: Making art with someone else often impacts my fine art making. I take often marveled at the style images volition "jump" from 1 page to another on the other side of the room in a group. Have you ever noticed this?

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

four. It's artistic self-care- why non apply positive peer pressure to your reward? 🙂

5. At that place are and so many reasons why making art together is astonishing, can you help make full out the list in the comments?

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How to Encounter Other Artists

If you regularly make fine art with others, making an artist date shouldn't be too hard. If however, yous have not made art with anyone for a long time, or ever, it tin can feel very intimidating to ask.

It'south kind of similar standing at Chris Robbins' locker, looking up at that uber tall, James Dean wait-alike, asking if he would consider going out for coffee and him saying, "Uh, maybe?" Yeah. Awkward.

Let's try and avert that scenario.

So if asking someone on an artist date feels awkward to you, I totally become information technology! When I was in graduate school, I made art with classmates and friends all the time. Yet, after graduate school, several factors, including a move, limited those opportunities.  This twelvemonth I fix out to change that.

Finding Other Artists

Where practise you notice other creatives or artists to make art with y'all?

i. Start talking near art with friends, folks at work, at religious services, or wherever yous go. You will find that you are already connected to people who do a diversity of creative activities, you just never talked about information technology before.

2. Besides, start some conversations on social media about art. Do some searching for beautiful art , fine art blogs, and project ideas on Google and Pinterest  and share them. See who likes, comments, and shares, and you may find some "hidden artists" in your existing networks.

three. Join Instagram. It's all about images, so it'due south a natural place for artists to share their work, inspire each other, and connect. And if you are feeling shy most sharing your work, know that many of the images that I have seen "liked" the nearly are item shots of just a function of a whole piece.

This is a great manner to focus on what is working for y'all in a piece, (great advice from Flora Bowley) as well as a peachy way to share your art without feeling quite and so vulnerable.

So far, I take approached ii people through Instagram, and 2 bloggers. I have two dates set up! (I will share all near them in a future postal service.)

How to Ask Someone Out on an Creative person Date

First of all, exist brave and be bold. What's the worst someone can say if you ask? "Uh, perhaps?" Well if they exercise, just  move on! (Besides, it will get y'all one step further in your "Rejection Therapy," a hilarious experiment I referenced in a previous postal service.)

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

1. Achieve out to someone whose art you like. Be genuine. Tell them why their art inspires yous. Talk near your motivation for connecting with more artists and getting more in affect with your art process.

2. Offer to host them at your fine art making space, whether that'south your kitchen tabular array, a gorgeous studio, or at a local buffet over pastry with art journals and portable art supplies. (Ooh, this last ane is sounding good, whatever takers?)

three. Have an online creative person date. If you lot discover that you connect with someone in California, and you are in Rhode Island, meet up on Skype, Google Hangouts, Vsee, or FaceTime. Of course it's not quite the same every bit being in the same physical infinite, but it volition withal offer y'all both connectedness, inspiration, and encouragement.

What to Make on Your Artist Appointment

Of course you tin make whatever yous want on your artist date, just given that it's nearly Valentine's Day, I thought I'd offer a trivial inspiration. (Given the timeline, you may want to brand shamrocks, chicks, bunnies, or Easter eggs.)

I had peachy fun making these Valentine books, I hope you like them. Would you lot let me know what you think in the comments?

I used craft cream I bought at Michael'southward to cut heart and leafage stamps. I then used a pivot to cut footling lines and details into them. Click here for a postal service on making your own stamps. (Stamps are SO much more fun to play with when y'all make them, so cheap! Do you find this too?)

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

I also happen to have a centre-shaped hole punch, then I figured that would exist fun to play with as well.

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

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

I can't sew that well or embroider, merely my trusty Singer lets me do all sorts of fun, rule breaking activities on paper and textile. I dearest newspaper – the feel, the texture, the audio. Does anyone else love paper the style I practise? Are you lot a Paper Source fiend? Please tell me I'm not alone in that.

Share Your Creations on Social Media!

Click here to be added to the Artistic Self-Intendance Facebook group. Share your gorgeous products from your artist date and whatsoever other creative projects you lot take going!

Or, share your creation on Instagram using #creativeselfcare.

Desire to Notice a Community of Artists in Foxboro, MA?

Y'all tin can take ane of my local art classes, click here for more information.

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