When you wonder what to create next, here’s a list of prompts for expressive art! Use these for art journal pages, drawings, paintings, mixed media, even for creative writing. The inspirational quotes from famous artists complement each of the short prompts. The students of Peony and Parakeet created the beautiful pieces that illustrate the prompts. They are based on the mini-courses “Botanical Discovery” and “Romantic Geometry.” These mini-courses are included in Imagine Monthly Art Journaling Class Bundle 2.
1) Living Colors
Claude Monet: “I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
2) Dreamy Sharpness
Rene Magritte: “If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.”
3) Speaking with Shapes
Vincent van Gogh: “The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.”
4) Composition of Absurdness
M.C. Escher: “Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it’s in my basement… let me go upstairs and check.”
5) No Stereotypes!
Henri Matisse: “There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.”
6) Bring in The Sun!
Pablo Picasso: “Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”
7) Taking Flight
Michelangelo: “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
8) Blue Escape
Wassily Kandinsky: “The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural… The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.”
9) Nature’s Mystery
Francis Bacon: “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”
10) Colors of the Night
Vincent van Gogh: “I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”
11) Strong but Gentle
Paul Klee: “One eye sees, the other feels.”
12) Explosion
M.C. Escher: “We adore chaos because we love to produce order.”
13) Panorama of Your Inner World
Wassily Kandinsky: “To create a work of art is to create the world.”
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Georgia O’Keeffe: “I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.”
Botanical Discovery is a mini-course inspired by the famous American artist Georgia O’Keeffe and botanical art. Create beautiful collages from hand painted papers – Buy here!
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Wassily Kandinsky: “Everything starts from a dot.”
Romantic Geometry is a mini-course inspired by the famous abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky, Renaissance masters and computer games. It’s a journey through centuries and especially suitable for you who want to make your art more dynamic! – Buy here!
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I feel honored that you have used my pieces for this offering.
Thank you.
I LOVE your pieces!
Your pieces are beautiful and I am so glad to be able to publish them!
Some beautiful work…..very inspiring – thanks
Thank you, Gloria!
I love the quotes and the vibrant art works. Well done, all of you artists.
Thank you, Barbara!
I would love to take Romantic Geometry if you offer it as a stand-alone class.
Sorry, jt, it’s not available as a single class for now.
Such beautiful work and amazing to me the talent from all over the world. I am Darci Hayden’s (USA) mother and I am so proud of her. Your classes have enhanced her life and brought out a talent in her that she never knew was there. She just keeps getting better. Wish her mother could be this creative. Must be wonderful to put colors and shapes together with such flow and clarity.
Oh, Terry, your comment makes my heart sing! The pleasure you have got from Darci’s art is wonderful evident that art affects not only us who create but our surroundings and the people who get to see it as well!
I’ve been telling my Mom that anyone can explore their creative side with awesome results with such grest teachers out there who really give of themselves and share knowledge and inspiration like Paivi does. All the commenters here don’t be afraid to go for it. Paivi’s classes are wonderful.
And thanks Mom for your loving support not only to me but my teacher and fellow students! ?
What a beautiful and inspirational collection of art and quotes. Thank you.
Thank you, Leigh-Ann!
The art is vibrant and so alive and the quotes are wonderful and inspirational. Thank you.
Thank you, Susie! I’m so glad to hear that you enjoyed the post.
What a wonderful and beautiful creativity
Thanks so much!
These are beautiful and very expressive.
Thank you on behalf of all the artists!
It makes me believe there is hope for me yet….How lovely they all are It is just an overall WOW
Thanks, Elaine, there’s always hope and we often think less of our art than we should! So keep on creating!
Your art and your students art speak to the place inside of me that knows I share this same space. It’s a bond soul to soul with another artist. Thank you all for speaking to me in this way. It is beautiful.
Thanks so much for your comment, Susie!