Below are some practical suggestions on how to collect beautiful moments and document your artistic journey for if you decide to share it on social media using @promptcreative and #prompcreative. We are looking for anything that you are willing to share with us, from your creations, your ideas, your everyday life, your interactions with others, your deepest most personal thoughts, or the colour of your paints. There is no right or wrong, nor too much or too little.
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Maya Angelou
1. Think about capturing the first thought you have when you see the prompt – a handwritten note, a voice record.
2. Without revision put down the first ideas that come into your head on paper.
3. Put a timestamp on your camera and make sure you’ve got at least one picture a day.
4. Make short diary entries about your creative journey – handwritten? Typed? Recorded?
5. Write down five words that have been triggered by the prompt.
6. Write lists. Lists about things you want to do, lists of ideas you’ve had, lists of moments or creative thoughts.
7. Think about audio – just say a few words, capture and forget – you could do this at random points or just when it feels like an important moment.
8. Think as though you were writing to a trusted friend – what is the process making you think. What is your day and life making you think?
9. What have I learnt, what have I thought, what have I noticed differently, what do I see, what do I do, what have I said today that was important, what made my heart flutter, what made me feel alive, what made me feel more awake, what was the one thing of note that crossed my mind – all these can be answered through handwritten notes, typed notes, recorded voice, video etc.
10. Self-reflection – capture your last thoughts of the day.
11. Look at things and take photos – capture them in different ways. When taking photos take them at different angles, zoom in and zoom out, do the same with videos. Learn from the process and try to see things in new ways.
12. Things to photograph: Your workspace, your notes, your creations in process, your completed creations, video your movement, video your journeys, take pictures of your cup of tea or coffee, your pets, other people’s pets, trees, your shoes, your hands, your creative tools, your doodles or sketches etc.
Closing thoughts
What if you could reach up and take pieces from the sky, collect moments from the world, catch conversations touch and keep colours, and keep emotions in bottles, shelves stacked high with different feelings.
What if you could see your life, your physical journey stretching back through time, what if you could walk back along the path you have taken. Every step, still physically there to be revisited.
