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• Freepainting - Wow I just got home from my Image and Imagination class and folks I have to share a painting way that I’m exploding fireworks happy from: watercolors (natch-Joan’s pref) on wc paper. First get the whole paper real wet. then take one of your bigger brushes and load it with the first color you’re in the mood for, then splash that color on the wet paper. Go with more colors as you like, and if you get pools of watery color, tip the paper so they move around & spread some. I am so happy - I am not in charge of what happens anymore, and whooo! tonight when I looked at this one, there’s a huge bear for starters, maybe holding a fish in one paw, and turned sideways, the bear looks even huger, like ursa major in the sky, and the whole thing is roaring rich with life. And that’s only the start of the stuff this image is showing me - I have to hang with it, listen to it, smell it, and there’ll be more. Go for it! Shall I call it freepainting or paintingfree? (submitted by Joan Sheski on 10-7-08 at 12:45 AM)
• Write and illustrate children’s books, such as The Mindful Little Indian Lion, or something along those lions.
• Write to J-ello and tell them to create a J-ello mold in the shape of Bill Cosby. Or, of you are friends with Bill Cosby, ask him for permission to papier-mâché his face so you can make a cast. Or, carve his inside-out face into a piece of wood, linoleum, or something like that and dunk your J-ello in there to use it as a mold. It is of utmost importance that Bill Cosby have his own J-ello mold. I want to see that so so so so sooo bad.
• Create some awesome wrapping paper and wrap it around an empty box. The wrapping paper is the gift.
• Design pop-up greeting cards.
• Yes, words are art. Also, art can be words. Word art can take the shape of trees and such if, say, a poem is is written as a shape.
• Mobiles are hanging artworks most often seen in babies’ cribs for visual stimulation. Most mobiles have free-moving parts that go into motion with a touch of wind or hand. They are generally hung freely in space, with rods, wire, or string setup to balance and separate the segments. I’d like to create an abstract tree limb that hangs over an office room with bending branches and giant green leaves on the ends.
• Copperbleibens (might be spelled wrong) – Make this cartoon about two funny police officers, motorcycle cops, good-natured people who ride tandem (one behind the other) on a motorcycle. They live in a small town, and they are the only cops in the town. At least one of them sports a mustache at all times, and they wear highway patrol outfits. They are excellent and pathetic at the same time in their pursuits: solving crimes and disputes. The hairs that make up the one guy’s mustache can only be one-inch long – that’s the regulation or the police code, or it’s in the code book or whatever. When they meet each other, they say, “I see by your outfit that you are an officer,” and then the other guy says, “I see by your outfit that you’re an officer too.” A local 7-year-old boy thinks he’s a law enforcement officer too, and his parents are supportive of this. The boy writes tickets to people who park illegally, for example, and he wears a suit to school, because he wants to dress like an FBI agent. The boy is the son of Jerry Johnson in Lan Diego (town name). The boy rides his bike around town, and when he sees something he does not approve of he screams just like a police siren to pull people over – like the casual dog walker that doesn’t pick up the poops.
• Oldsters is another cartoon idea – about fantastic elderly people.
• Full Love Myself: A book about you by you.

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