Up: [[Expressive Art]] Related: Created: 2026-02-09 Updated: 2026-02-10 - Play a song and paint or draw only until the song is over. Try different kinds of music. Be open to whatever appears. - Choose a line from a book of poetry, make that line your title, and then express the title with just colour, form, line and texture. If new to this, it can be helpful to start with a title that is concrete. - Use any visual image. Pull colours, composition and feelings from it and express them on the page. (Helen Hallows, artist) - Without looking at it, choose a random page of text. Still without looking, rip two sections from it and glue them down. Label one Expansion and the other Contraction. Find the message for each in the text and write it down as an instruction to yourself. (Jenafer Joy) I take it further by making an image based on the instruction. - [[Erasure or Blackout Poetry]] - [[Lectio Divina]] - [[Inner Animals]] - [[Respond Creatively to a Movie or Book]] - [[Photo Wisdom Cards]] - [[Make an Inspiration Journal]]. You could use the images in your journal as starting points for your own work.