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Re: creativity exercise thread.......

From: Bunki Kramer (bkramer.us)
Date: Thu Jun 29 2000 - 17:19:50 PDT

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    from: Bunki Kramer (bkramer.us)
    Los Cerros Middle School
    968 Blemer Road
    Danville, CA 94526
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    > One of my favorite college professors- Carolyn Parker- began her first day
    > of class by having everyone list as many uses for a brick (the kind with two
    > holes in them) as you can other than building. She listed all the uses on
    > the board. I like that it wasn't competitive. Then, she gave us a black dot
    > about the size of a coffee can lid cut out of construction paper. She gave
    > us twenty minutes (I think) to make "something" out of it. I made a hanging
    > basket with petunias using the bottom as the bottom. It was amazing to see
    > what others made.

    I like the idea of the black cicle. Can you tell me more? Did you just get
    the black circle or were you allowed to use more const. paper with the black
    circle too? I'm wondering how you made a basket AND flowers with just a
    circle only.

    I've see one exercise something similar with just cutting up a black circle
    into non-objective pieces and re-arranged into a design. I was think of that
    with just a touch of one piece of colored paper for accent. Hummmm.

    > What I loved about the way she taught is that I learned more about myself
    > that semester than any technique or drawing trick. Now that I think about
    > it, I don't know why I don't teach MORE like that. I'm really enjoying this
    > thread. > Michelle H. Harrell

    This is what I'm look for...more ideas about doing things like this. I also
    want to teach MORE like this myself...with some actual creative thinking put
    "out there" for discussion. 

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