Up: [[Expressive Art]] 1. Draw opposites using dominant and non-dominant hands. Then look for a way to bridge the two. 2. Two hand dialogue with a body part that is tense or hurting. Draw the image with non-dominant hand. With dominant hand, ask what you can do to help. 3. [[Warmups Using Circles]] 4. [[Spontaneous Image Making to Sidestep the Ego]] 5. [[Warming Up for Image Making]] 6. If feeling depressed, draw gradations from dark to light with crayon or charcoal 7. Paint a feeling. 8. Make a feeling mandala. Name a feeling that has dominated the day. Close eyes. What sensations, colours, imagery or words come to you as you explore this? Choose a simple shape and draw it in the centre of your page. Continue by adding other shapes, lines, colours or words that came to you, expanding your circle through concentric rings. When complete, write a one-line poem that summarizes the experience of inviting the feeling out. 9. If there's something in you that you don't want, visualize it as a being. That moves it from the rational to the mythic world. You can do this either by imagining a being or by finding a picture of a person or creature that captures how you feel. When you look at the image, you'll have a more nuanced sense of how you feel. — Mark Dean 10. [[Scribble Projective]] 11. [[Respond Creatively to a Movie or Book]] 12. Play a song and draw or paint only until the song is over. Try different kinds of music. Don't judge your work, just be open to what might appear. 13. [[Visual Journaling Check-in Process]] 14. [[Naïve Art Techniques]] 15. [[The Down Deep]] 16. [[Find Inner Animals]] 17. Use any visual image. Pull colours, composition and feelings from it and express on the page. — Helen Hallows 18. Juxtapose apparently unrelated and random words, images, sound and gestures. 19. Take two colours. Make one colour the form and put it anywhere on the page. Make the other colour the background. Keep it simple. Be curious. 20. Make an abstract painting by choosing a line from a poetry book, making that the title and then expressing the title with just colour, form, line, and texture. Can help at beginning to have a title that is concrete. 21. Make an image of how I’m feeling. Then make an image of the opposite. 22. Draw a box on the page. Then, with a pencil crayon in each hand, make loose, flowing doodles on the rest of the page. Find two images in the doodles and highlight them. Then write a haiku about the doodles (5/7/5 syllables) in the box. — Jenafer Joy, Inspired Inquiries course called "Flail.” 23. Choose a random page of text without looking. Still without looking, rip two sections from it and glue down. Title one section Expansion and the other Contraction. Find the message for each in the text and write it down as an instruction to myself. — Jenafer Joy, Inspired Inquiries course called “Flail.” 24. After making a collage, rather than analyzing the images, speak from their voices. Select an image and respond from the prompt ‘I am'. See what each one has to say and then enter them in conversation with one another. 25. [[Photo Wisdom Cards]] 26. After making art, speak from the perspective of a character in the work — I am the one who… Idea comes from Seena Frost’s book on *Soul Collage*. This is a way to embody a piece of work 27. Divide the page in two. Using my non-dominant hand, quickly choose one colour to make lines and shapes on the left side. Using my dominant hand, choose a different colour and make lines and shapes that are completely different. Take a moment to consider the two different markings and develop them further with their separate colours. Make some notes about your feelings, states, reflections. Nora Swan-Foster calls this activity ‘Inner Opposites’ 28. [[In and Out Painting]] 29. Cut some shapes out of an old background painting. Arrange them on the page in a variety of ways, taking photos every time. [[Tara Leaver]] says this is a relaxing, therapeutic process. 30. [[Follow Impulses]] 31. [[How to Make a Mandala]] 32. Make a list of emotions then sketch a shape that connects to each emotion. What shapes come up for me? Why? Don’t overthink it. 33. Put water on a sheet of watercolour paper. Drop in acrylic ink and let it flow where it wants. See what emerges and paint the shape around it with thin washes of either ink or watercolour. Then mark making into who or what else wants to emerge. So a version of Down Deep but with inks and watercolours. 34. Choose a part of your body that can be traced, maybe a hand. Tell the story of that body part through collage images that you put in the outline of the part. Find some images that resonate and some that cause dissonance. Spend some time in silence with the collage. Then enter into conversation with different images in journal writing. — Christine Valters Paintner, *Wisdom of the Body* (p. 141) 35. Cover a surface randomly with oil pastels. Eliminate sections by randomly covering them with different colours. Use your finger to rub out areas and create different kinds of atmospheric effects through the merging of colours. Try to think very little about what the overall composition looks like. Keep experimenting with the process of elimination and realize how each deletion adds something new. — Shaun McNiff 36. Write nonsense words in haphazard ways. Identify gestures that please you, and repeat them over and over. As you fall into the rhythm of the movement, amplify it and you’ll find the expressions start to look more like artistic gestures than handwriting. — Shaun McNiff 37. Try making pictures of things you see with the most basic forms possible and in any colours that please. Like a child who paints a sailboat as a rectangle and triangle with a stick between them.