Creative Every Day Theme for April: 5 Senses
March 27th, 2010
At the end of each month I will announce the totally optional theme for the following month. April 2010's theme will be: The 5 Senses (sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch.)
As always, the themes for the Creative Every Day Challenge are totally optional. Use it if it sparks you, continue being creative every day in your own way if it doesn't, or do something in between.
I'm thinking of this theme in terms of telling exploring with our 5 senses, making art about them, creating art with them, and noticing how we use our senses to create. There are endless ways you can play with the theme and I'm open to any interpretation.
I'll be posting about the theme throughout the month on the blog to help keep you inspired. You can use the posts here for jumping off points or interpret the theme in your own creative way. If you need some suggestions, here are a few ideas to get you started. You could:
- *Create a poem from the perspective of one of your senses.
- *Capture a representation of each sense in a photograph.
- *Choose a favorite scent, and paint with a color that represents it.
- *Make sculptural or textured art that's fun to touch.
- *Get quiet to notice all the sounds around you, capture what you hear in writing or art.
- *Create delicious food art!
- *Train your power of observation with contour line drawings.
- *Collage an homage to your senses.
- *Try new flavors of teas, different spices, a new kind of chocolate: inspire your taste buds!
How to use the CED themes:
If you're feeling creatively stuck or blocked at any point during the month, use the theme as a source of inspiration to get you moving. Feel free to focus on the theme in your creative activities for the entire month or as much as you'd like.
Using the theme is entirely optional for CED participants. Use it if it inspires you, ignore it if it doesn't. I'll be sharing posts throughout the month around the theme (among other things) to get you thinking about how to incorporate it into your life. I'd love to hear how you use the theme in your creative world.
And have fun with it!
I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me. ~Sharon Olds
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Posted by: uberVU – social comments | Mar 27, 2010 at 12:06 pm |
Hey old friend!!! I am so in it this month. April for me represents a reawakening of the senses.. and I am so up for a new challenge. My creative spirit has been stagnant. I’m so looking forward to this!
Posted by: bella | Mar 27, 2010 at 4:41 pm |
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great suggestion for april, i will be glad to follow
Posted by: lilas | Mar 28, 2010 at 12:25 pm |
Great Idea! Thanks
Posted by: Art Trip | Mar 28, 2010 at 3:59 pm |
Greetings. Leah! I’m so grateful that you left a comment on the Louise Bourgeois sculptures, because now I have truly discovered your blog. I know I’ve heard the title of your blog – perhaps through Linda at VPM or Steve at CST? In any event – it’s hard to find people online who ever even heard of Bourgeois (and I don’t mean that in a snotty way…quite differently; there are plenty of people online who know of her but I’m not always truly comfortable with the critic people in the art world
, secondly, I read your first post and I see a quote by Sharon Olds, one of my favorite poets.
I love your challenge. I’m such an amateur photographer, I’m sure I’m up for it in terms of quality but I certainly will check back to see what others have come up with.
Thank you.
Gina
aka Pagan Sphinx
Posted by: pagan sphinx | Mar 28, 2010 at 6:32 pm |
Count me in as well Leah… this will be great discipline for creating this month… as I will be painting, writing and taking photographs in preparation for a September solo show on the theme of “Sea, Land and Time”
Posted by: Terrill Welch | Mar 29, 2010 at 12:37 pm |
What a wonderful theme for my return!
Look forward to it.
Posted by: Ana Goncalves | Mar 29, 2010 at 5:38 pm |
Very interesting theme! I think I was subconsciously working with it in some little creations the past two weeks. But it will be very interesting to explore it consciously in April!
Posted by: EVA | Mar 29, 2010 at 9:10 pm |
This sounds like a great theme! Can’t wait to explore it–and hopefully before April is over, I will have my new studio set and ready for some “arting”! I’m having serious art withdrawls since all my time right now is occupied by moving into our new home!!
Posted by: Maria | Mar 30, 2010 at 2:07 pm |
I have been exploring the 6th sense in my April challenge poems. x
Posted by: Esther | Apr 4, 2010 at 3:04 pm |
As always I enjoy coming into Creative Everyday. There are so many interesting people here.
Thank-You, Leah !-
Had it not been /f CED I’m not sure there would be Journal For * Today *
Posted by: Elizabeth Colvin | Apr 7, 2010 at 1:46 pm |
New here! I first saw a article about what you are doing here in the Artful Blogging mag july 2009. I think this will be fantabulous fun!!
Posted by: Brenda Salzano | Apr 12, 2010 at 9:26 pm |
I’ve been making a real effort to include as many of the five senses as possible in my poems and art.
Posted by: Mary Stebbins Taitt | Apr 20, 2010 at 9:15 am |
I did a poem and an art piece to go with it on insomnia, thinking of sleep as a snipe (from a snipe hunt) in which I attempted to include all five of the senses. I did not post it to the blog I signed up with (my art blog) becasue it is a poem, so I posted it to my poetry blog here: http://marysreading.blogspot.com/2010/04/no-sniper-of-sleep.html
Posted by: Mary Stebbins Taitt | Apr 20, 2010 at 9:30 am |
I did a poem and an art piece to go with it on insomnia, thinking of sleep as a snipe (from a snipe hunt) in which I attempted to include all five of the senses. I did not post it to the blog I signed up with (my art blog) becasue it is a poem, so I posted it to my poetry blog here: http://marysreading.blogspot.com/2010/04/no-sniper-of-sleep.html. I made a broadside of the poem and art in a 9-copy limited edition. I may make a new version, but if so, it will be a little different.
Posted by: Mary Stebbins Taitt | Apr 20, 2010 at 9:32 am |
Today I am experiencing the world through my skin–a new sensation from trying new products. and sore fingers from so much stitching!
Posted by: Linae Enockson | Apr 25, 2010 at 9:38 am |