How to be an artist everyday

This is simplified but it works.

1) Find a pen and paper

2) Write a list of everything that comes to mind when you think about art, art-making including the materials, genres, galleries or exhibitions, locations and spaces etc

3) This list can be as long as you want it to be, as random, chaotic or out there!

4) Close your eyes and put your pen down on the paper, where ever it lands is your first day to be “Artist”

5) During Lockdown where ever you are in the world it might be harder but you’ll find a way because you’re an artist!

6) Aim to do one thing from the list at least once a week - maybe choose the same day each week at the same hour so you can keep to that routine.

Examples for a list:

Learn about yellow paint

Know how to paint with watercolour

Create watercolour flowers

Draw with pen to the end of a drawing (don’t half finish it)

Colour in pictures

Create a collage

Visit more cemeteries and take photos of trees there

Read poetry by the unmarked grave

Speak to the rosebush in my front garden

Dance in the kitchen barefoot on the tiles

Learn why Dali loved yellow of all the colours

Learn to use a new art material

Create texture in my artwork

Use the vintage material I own into my canvas art.

Publish a magazine

Approach LADA to work with/collaborate with them

Write a blog

Collaborate with other autistic/ADHD artists

Facilitate relaxed spaces

These are examples from Neurodivergent Magical Women artists doing their “art list” to pushing them to attend to their art practice:

Judith Rowlands (first image)

Anna Dyson (3rd and 9th image)

Gemma Abbott (5th image)

Natasha Oliver-Cork (12th image)

Elinor Rowlands - Magazine, some of the art, and facilitator of the workshops or events seen.