Here are the Top Five Reasons to take a Silly workshop:
- 5. You get to complete activity worksheets, third-grade style.
- 4. The drawings you create are meant to be silly, i.e. not perfect, i.e. not stressful, i.e. FUN!
- 3. You can mix metaphors all you want and pretend you did it on purpose.
- 2. You want to lighten up, in your artwork and your life.
- 1. The supply list is not a list.
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As a workshop teacher, I try to help adult students recover a more child-like approach to drawing and art-making. To loosen up… shed those fears, and just let the joy of creating be the primary focus: That’s what this workshop will be about.
It will be structured thusly:
The class will be divided into four sessions, two in the morning, two in the afternoon. Each session will begin with a worksheet with writing and drawing exercises similar to the ones shown here. (Can’t draw? Yes you can!!)
You might do one-liners, scribbly drawings, blind drawings, doodling, up-side down drawings and drawings with your left foot. You will write a haiku. Toilet paper will be involved.
After each short exercise, you will be given instructions on how to “take it further” in your journals or on paper I provide. Four worksheets, four drawing/mixed media projects – all designed to be silly and serious, both.
All supplies will be provided; just bring yourself, your Sharpie, and your williness to unleash your Inner Silly… Come and play with the Silly Queen!
Still not sure? Here’s a Limerick for U:
It’s okay to want to be silly,
When day-to-day life can be pilly,
It just takes a word
Or a drawing absurd
To lighten your day willy-nilly!
Supply List:
- Extra fine point black Sharpie (or similar permanent marker)
Teacher will provide:
- Everything else
Optional:
- Your journal
