Creating Art Together

Connecting people through simple art activities.

In these posts, I aim to share art prompts that can be used to create connection between family members, with friends or in our community spaces. Simple, creative ideas to bring us together for a moment unity, reflection and joy.

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This article includes a fun and easy art prompt PLUS my new Australian Animals colouring sheets for paid subscribers to download.

When making art, sometimes I enjoy setting rules or boundaries; simple things like you can only use small squares of paper or maybe only draw with pencil and blue ink. It helps me feel less overwhelmed about the endless possibilities presented by an array of art materials and techniques.

Tiny paintings with kids, using only 10x10cm pieces of paper and liquid watercolour paints.

Working withing constraints can also be freeing, allowing deeper exploration and releasing ideas of perfectionism. If you decide to do a still life drawing using only blue ink, there is no way you can represent every colour or detail, in turn releasing you from the idea that your drawing needs to be perfect. In this months art prompt below, we draw without looking at our paper, making it really hard to draw ‘perfectly’, but this constraint in turn opens up the opportunity to observe deeply and connect what you see with the movements of your body.