ImaginationActivity


 * Imagination Activities

Purpose**: To encourage you to use your imagination; this in turn, will help to strengthen your creative problem solving skills. To continue to develop and practice quality craftsmanship, attention to detail, and strong compositional strategies.


 * Choose one activity below to complete
 * All artwork should be signed and dated (on the front of the work, with your first and last name).
 * Remember, quality craftsmanship counts.
 * Consider your whole page; be sure to use a STRONG composition (touch at least 3 edges of the paper).
 * Attention to detail is a MUST.
 * You should stretch yourself and challenge your own personal level of ability.


 * Drawing on your Imagination (Pun intended!) **


 * //Media Choices for all activities://** Collage, colored pencil, charcoal, cray-pas, using 12 x 18" or 9 x 12" drawing paper.

**Activity #1** //**Changing or reversing the "laws of nature". What is impossible?**//

//"Wouldn't it be a strange world if...."//
 * 1) Brainstorm at least 10 possible endings to this sentence somewhere in your sketchbook.
 * 2) Choose one of your ideas from which to create a work of art.
 * 3) In what ways does your background add interest and/or enhance your idea? Ask yourself this question and make sure it //**does**// add interest and/or enhance your idea.

//**Alterations**//
 * Activity # 2**
 * 1) Change the perceptions of everyday objects by adding objects.
 * 2) Attach a handle, faucet, electric cord, etc. to a basic object that normally would not have one (i.e. a piece of fruit with a faucet). You should draw from observation, but obviously use your imagination to combine.
 * 3) In what ways does your background add interest and/or enhance your subject? Ask yourself this question and make sure it //**does**// add interest and/or enhance your idea.