Art Slam » Food for the Creative Soul

I am excited to see so many people selecting a partner and participating in this project. Even if you choose to do this solo, and you can do that, I believe it will be a great experience and help you grow creatively. Now, I started thinking if this would be easier to stick with if there were specific themes and I can not say yes or no to that just yet. For those of you who do better with some kind of guidance, I have compiled a list of suggested themes you can use during the diptych project. I find suggested themes can be helpful when you get stuck in the middle of the process, so I hope these will be of some help and I can not wait to see the first round of collective creations.

Suggested Diptych Themes

• New
• Green
• Food
• Music
• Technology
• Water
• Think
• Red
• Book
• Love
• Touch
• Order
• Chaos
• Ignite
• Peace
• Vibe
• Now
• Present
• Cascade
• Plenty
• Blaze
• Rough
• Bright
• Art
• Self
• Drink
• Favorite

I can always use a good excuse to shoot a photograph or create a little art everyday. Twice I have attempted the 365 portrait projects, and those lasted no more than 33 days both times. So, that got me to thinking. How could I reap the benefits of projects like this without a year long commitment? What could I do to keep me motivated and not give up when I am just getting started?

How about a month long project with a friend? One month is just enough time to build up a pretty nice body of creative work and doing it with a friend keeps you both motivated to keep up with it after the 30 days is up.

So, here is the plan:

First thing you need is someone to do this project with you.

Second, you both select a medium to create something everyday. For example, I am going to shoot a picture everyday. Your partner may decide to do a daily card.Or you could do a scrapbook page or a journal page or a combination of any mixed media.

Now, for the fun part…you or your partner are going to send an image of what you created to the other partner to create a diptych of your daily creative as one collective image. Your team can decide to have a daily theme or you can just go with the flow. Diptychs seem to work better when there is some kind of common theme, like color, perspective, common relationship, etc. Seriously, check out the Diptych group on Flickr, there are some great examples.

So, that is the first Daily Creative for 2009. You can post your team diptych at the Art Slam Flickr group and leave a link here for others to check out what you and your partner did.