30. Visit a Museum

Visit an art gallery or Museum. Take your sketchbook or journal and write about or draw what you see/like.

26. Make Chalkboard Art

Image by Jennifer Scott McLaughlin

Either buy or make your own Chalkboard, hang it like a piece of artwork & each week create a new drawing or doodle to display.

21. Draw on your Shower walls!

Some of my best ideas come when I'm in the shower & more often than not I wish I had something with which to record the thoughts. Now, a mini tape recorder in the bath or shower is probably not the best idea, and paper tends to get soggy. Then it hit me, why not buy a set of soap-crayons & draw on the shower walls?

It washes off, and is so much fun!

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14. Record Your Day

Photo by AndrewMorrell.

Take a small tape recorder or digital recorder with you & record the sounds you encounter in your day. Come home and make a written or pictorial transcript of the recording.

13. Picasso Portrait

Picasso Portrait: Look in the mirror and draw a self-portrait without looking at your paper, and without lifting your pencil from the paper’s surface. This is actually called a "blind contour" drawing.

Try doing this each morning. Or, if you're not into drawing yourself, draw someone or something else. Not only does this hone hand-eye coordination, but it helps your observation skills as well.

7. Illustrate a quote or Poem

Find a poem or quote that you like, write it in your journal, then illustrate it, color it in, doodle around it... make it visually pleasing to you.

6. Draw The Events of Your Day

In no particular order, draw the events of your day:

• When did you wake up?
  
• what did you eat for breakfast? Lunch? Dinner? Snack?
  
• what did you wear?
  
• Did you run any errands? take the dog for a walk? lounge in the sun with the cat?
  
• Did your Spouse | Significant Other | Roommate | Brother | Parents say or do anything that affected your day?
  
• Did you watch TV? Go to a Movie? Etc.

2. Be a Thing Finder

Collect objects that you find on your walk, bring them home:

• Draw them
  
• Collage them into your journal
  
• write about them:
  
  • how did you found the "thing"?
    
  • What is the secret life of the thing found - where did it come from, how did it end up there...
  
  
• set up a mini-museum in which to display your best weekly finds [change it each week]
  
• Write descriptive tags for them & display them in your house somewhere
  
• Write descriptive or story tags for them, and leave them somewhere for someone else to find