Sometimes the hardest part of art is coming up with an idea. Here are some ideas from great artists to get you started:
- Macro photography is taking photographs of tiny objects at life size or larger. Why not paint something tiny large! Or inversely, why not paint something large tiny.
- Andy Warhol found inspiration everywhere including everyday objects like Campbell’s soup cans and Brillo boxes. Look around your kitchen, what inspires you?
- Compose a still life with items from your junk drawer and create a mini Dutch Baroque painting
- Find inspiration in nature. Grab a beautiful rock, shell, leaf, or petal (or all four). Try painting them in the style of Georgia O’Keefe
- Do a splatter painting like Jackson Pollock or mix colors and create a color field painting like Mark Rothko
- Using tiny dots, like Georges Seurat, create a simple landscape
- Cut out shapes from colored paper and create a mini cut out like Henri Matisse
- Wayne Thiebaud was famous for painting cakes and desserts. Cezanne loved painting fruit. What’s your favorite food? Why not try and paint it!
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“If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced” – Vincent Van Gogh
