COLLAGE-A-DAY

The Collage-a-day book project is about trial and error, experimentation & exploration. It is about making 1 collage a day. When you wake up or right before you go to bed, whatever you are most comfortable with. Spend only 10-15 minutes on each collage (max 20 minutes). You do not need to start at the beginning of the book, start in the middle. The books will be checked weekly.

You can use whatever materials you want to in your book. It may be helpful to experiment with the materials that we are using in class. If you want to try something new, fine. Start becoming a collector, a scrapper, a packrat - DO NOT THROW AWAY YOUR PAPER SCRAPS!

The book needs to be completed, and presented on the last day of class. This is your final project for the course. It is worth double! The book will be evaluated with only 2 criteria:
1. EXPERIMENTATION (50%)
2. PARTICIPATION (50%)

If you do not know what a collage is click here

IDEAS:
If you are stuck and need a little more direction for the Collage-a-day. Read the following ideas. However, you do not NEED to use this list. Ideally the Collage-a-day project is suppose to be filled with trial and error, experimentation & exploration, idea testing.
These 45 ideas were from : 100 ideas, by keri smith, for use with a journal, www.kerismith.com ©2005

1. Go for a walk. Draw or list things you find on the sidewalk.

2. Draw your dinner or your breakfast.

3. Find a piece of poetry you respond to. Rewrite it and glue it into your book.

4. Find a piece of poetry you respond to.  Paint, Draw, Collage it into your book.

5. Buy a new art material and use it.

6. Glue an envelope into your book.  For one week collect items you find on the street.

7. Expose yourself to a new artist, (go to a gallery, or in a book.) describe what moves you about it.

8. Find a photo of a person you do not know. Write a brief bio about them.

9. Spend a day drawing only red things.

10. Draw your bike.

11. Make a map of everywhere you went in one day.

12. Draw a map of the creases on your hand, (knuckles, palm).

13. Record an overheard conversation.

14. Go to a paint store. Collect 'chips' of all your favorite colors.

15. Draw your favorite tree.

16. Make directions for a puppet.

17. Create a collage from things you find in nature.

18. Illustrate your grocery list.

19. Study the face of someone you do not like.

20. Fill an entire page in your book with small circles. Color them in.

21. Choose an object, draw the side you can't see.

22. List all of the places you've ever lived.

23. Describe your favorite room in detail.

24. Draw all of the things in your purse/bag.

25. Create a character based on someone you know.

26. Draw the same object every day for a week.

27. use a different medium (brush & ink, charcoal, old typewriter, crayons, markers.

28. Use only tape to draw with.

29. Make pencil rubbings of six different surfaces.

30. Draw your garbage.

32. Collect some 'flat' things in nature (leaves, flowers). Glue or tape them into your book.

33. Physically alter a page. (i.e. cut a hole, pour tea on it, burn it, fold it, etc.)

34. Find several color combinations you respond to in public. Document them using swatches. Write where you found them.

35. Experiment with simple printmaking. (i.e. monoprint, photocopy, stamping, potato printing, lino, eraser.)

36. Draw the outline of an object without looking at the page. (contour drawing).

37. What were you thinking just now? Do it!

38. Create an image using dots. Maybe sticker dots…

39. Do 3 drawings at different speeds.

40. Make prints using food. (fruit and vegetables cut in half, fish, etc.)

41. Find a photo. Alter it by drawing or painting over it.

42. Cut a random shape out of several layers of a magazine. Make a collage out of the results.

43. Make a painting using tools found in the bathroom.

44. Write an entry about a secret. Cut it up and glue the pieces in randomly.

45. Try a medium that is subtractive.