Monday, August 20, 2012

Just a reminder - concentration ideas you may have forgotten to think about...


  • Car part ads
  • Portraits detailing emotions
  • Portraits detailing odd body positions
  • Extreme abstract close ups
  • Extreme abstract close ups of nature
  • Normal things using alternate colors
  • What people throw away
  • Family heirlooms
  • Variations of one thing
  • Seasons
  • Recreations of famous art pieces
  • Close ups of person - abstracted
  • Designing shoes/shoe close ups
  • Portraits of things broken or ruined
  • Opposites (ie: something hot as cold)
  • Textures
  • Animals.insects in environment
  • Close ups of sports equipment
  • Close ups of art supplies
  • Distortion
  • Optical illusions
  • Where has it been? (ie: the dollar)
  • Items upside down or backwards
  • Items missing something vital
  • Images inspired by songs
  • Cause and effect
  • War and its effect
  • Landscapes: day and night
  • Perspective
  • Significant buildings
  • Accessories
  • Sunglasses and faces
  • Scenes from dreams
  • Scenes from books
  • Self portraits with traits exaggerated
  • Illustrate a story
  • Line drawings of objects
  • What will the future be?
  • Past and present
  • Modern and historic
  • Odd, interesting people
  • A day in the life of...
  • One object 12 different views
  • Technology
  • Different cultures
  • The Heavens (planets, stars, etc.)
  • Aerial views
  • Stages of growing up
  • Things whole, broken up
  • Surrealism paintings
  • Real to life with surreal background
  • Hands doing things - different media
  • 12 different parts of a face, together creating a whole face again
  • People who are angry (happy, sad)
  • Buildings
  • City scenes
  • People in motion
  • Innocence
  • Nature scenes
  • One person, portrait young to old
  • Areas of concern in America
  • Old photographs
  • Polaroids
  • The act of protest
  • Shape (altering with diet/weights)
  • Triumph
  • Using trash to create
  • Teenage life
  • Monochromatic (life?)
  • The game of life
  • Childhood mementos
  • Family vacations
  • Family members
  • A friend’s different moods
  • First day of school pictures
  • Elderly
  • Playgrounds
  • Door handles
  • Bathrooms
  • Scenes from a music video
  • Beach scenes
  • Undersides of desks and chairs
  • Insides of things
  • Jewelry
  • Zippers
  • Metamorphosis
  • Close ups of favorite foods
  • Sweat
  • Beauty of hands - how they are used
  • Generations
  • Things we desire
  • Love/friendship
  • Vulnerability
  • Change
  • Hope
  • Appropriation
  • Helping others
  • Picking up after hard times
  • Newspaper headlines
  • Natural disasters
  • Human emotion
  • Leaving things behind
  • Adventures
  • Nonconformity/individuality
  • Conformity 
  • Sameness
  • Comfort zones
  • War and peace
  • Diversity
  • Beauty in simplicity
  • Where have you been?
  • Forever young
  • Evolution of objects
  • Light
  • Sound
  • Motion
  • Abandoned buildings
  • The smallest parts of a whole
  • Media impact
  • Parts of the body to represent different emotions
  • Necessary objects
  • Communication tools
  • Different scenes through broken glass
  • Famous speeches (...to be or not to be...)
  • Photographs telling part of a story
  • Windows/mirrors
  • Fire
  • Water
  • Earth
  • Wind
  • Comic strip
  • Parties
  • Skeletal structure
  • Wood
  • Walking on the ceiling
  • Through the eyes of animals
  • Life as a napkin
  • Life as a paperclip 
  • Life as a ____________
  • No skin, just the inside
  • Negatives
  • Pure line
  • Overconfidence
  • Fashion designs
  • Illustrate a book
  • Night scenes
  • Opposites
  • Same place, different time
  • Decades
  • Fruits inside and out
  • Produce
  • Sleeping people
  • Patterns
  • What is art to you?
  • School life
  • Your surroundings
  • Refuge
  • Current issues
  • Death
  • Abstraction of every day life
  • Different rooms - what makes them interesting
  • Hats
  • Fear
  • Poverty
  • Interiors and Exteriors
  • The figure in space
  • Abandoned houses
  • Deterioration - the body, a structure
  • Morning rituals
  • Shadows - extreme
  • Reflections in surfaces
  • Interpretations of one object
  • Creating a drawing for every line of a song or poem
  • Decaying objects
  • Illumination with candle light
  • Drawings/paintings in different artistic styles
  • Daily Routines
  • People and their pets
  • Jobs
  • Horses
  • Trash versus treasure - who decides?
  • Bedrooms
  • What’s in your closet?
  • Child labor
  • Poster events (rodeos, carnivals, etc.)
  • Homelessness
  • Unfinished things
  • Assemblages
  • Boxes
  • Boxes as a metaphor
  • Stages of Life
  • Paths
  • Unusual environments
  • Colors as influences
  • Seeing color where others don’t
  • Chairs
  • Art and text
  • Illustrate Shakespeare
  • Illustrate a famous historical event - (JFK assassination, Harvey Milk and SF gay rallies)
  • Body language
  • Drawings of reflective materials
  • Dolls
  • Drawing over time (one setting adding a new element every day)
  • Drawing in each color scheme (warm, cool, analogous, etc.)
  • Pop Art analyzed personally
  • Organic materials used non-organically (clothing? transportation?)
  • Changing landscape (Monet)
  • Emotions through abstraction
  • Temporary art - graffiti, sand on sidewalk, dust on car windows)
  • Toast
  • Clouds
  • Light fixtures
  • 7 Deadly Sins (lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, pride)
  • Kitchen objects
  • Focus on Vermeer (friends set up in famous positions)
  • Fauvist style landscapes of favorite places
  • Human influences on environment
  • Close up of machines
  • Emulating artists’ styles
  • Braids
  • Interior of moving things
  • Unusual landscape alteration
  • Portraits with your mother
  • Portraits with your art
  • 27 dresses