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Start Your Art Bloghop
Hot off the press, Lyric Kinard’s Start Your Art deck of cards / prompts is available as an actual deck or a digital download. You can get it here
Art and quilt teacher and friend Lyric Kinard (website and Facebook and Instagram) delighted me recently when she asked if I’d like to be part of a bloghop to launch her new prompts deck of cards “Start Your Art: 48 Warm Up Exercises to Jumpstart Your Art”…of course! I shared a sneak preview two weeks ago, here; In that post I shared an exercise done waiting for an appointment on my iPhone. This time it is the official bloghop and giveaway. Read on to find out how to win a copy of the deck for your favorite art teacher and a digital copy for you!
Update: Entry period is over and comment number 4 won! Judy Tucker, get in touch!
The random number generator picked 4!
One of the great and cool things is that Lyric asks you to “Make Bad Art.” Yup, it is OK to make bad art. In fact, it is really useful! There is a story that has been around for eons (and likely true many times over): A college art teacher divided the class in half. One half of the students only had to make ONE big project, but it had to be really, really good. They could spend ALL their time making it their best. The other half of the class had to make many, Many, MANY things. Guess who made the best pieces? The ones that had to make a lot of art. As one woman I remember from an online chat group said years ago, “make crap (pardon the language). Then make more crap.” Throw it away. Keep making. Then eventually you realize you’re doing better!
Since I have the digital version of the deck of cards, I just randomly clicked on several cards, selecting ones I could do from the comfort of my living room chair–after Houston I’m ready for some random creativity and fun that doesn’t require a lot of scrambling around. What better than zero-calorie ice cream? The prompt on p. 60 asks you to tell how to make a sandwich or other food, with no words. This would be improved with color, but that would require going downstairs to my studio for pencils or watercolor so pen and ink it is!
One prompt is to draw how to make a sandwich or other food with no words. Why have a sandwich when you can have an ice cream sundae? Notice the happy me?
Another exercise is a variation on the theme of doing a value scale..how many types of marks and ways to create boxes of different value (light to dark) can you create? Think of doing this with thread on the top of a quilt…..ways to change the color of the cloth underneath!
How to make a value scale….p. 39
And one of my favorite exercises–start with a snippet of something and make it different. Lyric asks you to start with a copy of a favorite piece of art, but I used the version I teach in my design class: take a magazine page and select a portion of it.
The original advertisement page from British Country Living.
And here’s a portion of it and my Bad Art. I was doing OK until I put in one of those checkerboard things on the left side. Ugh. Too heavy. So I had to add some more to balance it out…..
A fun ramble and play in front of the TV last night! Most of it I don’t like, but I do like the way I did the leaves and love that “dropped spaghetti” railing from the photo that I extended on both sides. Fun motif–either as a thermofax screen to put paint on cloth or as a quilting or hand stitching motif, or just improv piecing! See….you make bad art, the brain starts pinging, and you get more and more ideas!
Lyric is offering a real-life deck of Start Your Art Cards to be given to your favorite Art teacher. To enter to win this deck on behalf of your favorite teacher and a digital copy of the deck for you, leave a comment below sharing memories of your favorite art teacher. On November 21 Lyric will randomly select a winner and work with you to ship the real-life deck to your favorite art teacher. Please be sure to leave a CORRECT email address so we can reach you if you win!
And if you’d like to play and support an artist (namely Lyric) go HERE to order them directly from her!
Perhaps most fun of all, SHARE your art from Start Your Art here on the Start Your Art Facebook page right here.
November 16th, 2018 at 9:17 am
My favorite art teacher is meryl ann butler. I would love to try this
November 16th, 2018 at 10:57 am
These look wonderful. I would like my favorite art quilt teacher jodi marie lockyer to win those.
November 16th, 2018 at 9:59 pm
I’ve already ordered a hard copy of the deck of cards for myself, but would love for art teacher, Libby Williamson to have her own deck (If she doesn’t already). She is so creative in so many different ways. She teaches kids and adults and is just full of ideas.
November 17th, 2018 at 12:20 pm
Just ordered a deck for myself! Look forward to it. I know my friend Betty Hedrick would love and benifit fron a deck as well. My favorite art teacher…..oh that is tough. Debbie Martinez
November 17th, 2018 at 6:29 pm
Well there you go, This sounds so interesting, I need kick starting again as mojo lost 🙁 I have many favourite art teachers but only one free motion quilting guru and that’s you, Sarah Ann Smith xx
November 17th, 2018 at 10:53 pm
Aw you make me BLUSH! Thank you!
November 24th, 2018 at 11:00 am
Congratulations Judy Tucker, you are the winner! I used randomnumbergenerator.com to pick a number between 1 and 5 and it picked four. Since you are the fourth comment, you win! Please email me at sarah at-sigh sarahannsmith dot com and I’ll forward your information to Lyric Kinard!