What if you were told that you were limited to certain boundaries, to create a great idea? Many times in our artistic life, we are limited to certain mediums, wording and pictures. From those restricted elements, we must come up with a brilliant solution.
For example, a piece of notebook paper as the boundary. The assignment is, use only the colors on the paper, and you can manipulate the circles, lines and texture of a piece of notebook paper to come up with artistic solutions for each student’s personality in a perceived classroom. You have 3 hours. Do you think you can do it?
No computer, just use a drawing element that is red, white and blue. Draw it on anything you want or manipulate the paper into anything you want. Just stay within the boundaries of the notebook paper elements to use for your creation.
This assignment was given to me in college. It was really fun, but it was also teaching us to adapt to the boundaries given to us in real life. Yet it was completely and utterly hard for some of the students in the class to become bound to rules and certain elements and still be creative. They had “hippy block!”
I think the professor was a genius. It taught me to think “outside the notebook paper”, and it was actually one of the most exciting projects that we ever did.
Real life projects are usually not limitless. We’re bound to budgets, time constraints, mediums, computers and sometimes even bosses. So if you can come up with 22-24 ideas within 3 hours, you got what it takes to create great ideas and beaming artistic solutions!
Have a Sparkling Summer!
Inspirational Hippy 