Prompt 1-5 ‘I’ ‘Express your ‘self”
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My eye by orangeacid, on Flickr
“My eye” Image: Flickr (CC BY 2.0) by orangeacid

This week it’s all about Me, Myself, I.

We have a list of ideas for you below to help express your ‘self’. If you can, challenge yourself to try 3 of these throughout the week.

Share your inspiration with us during our final week of CampusCreate.

It’s been great getting to know you all, we hope you enjoyed participating and that you found inspiration in each other’s creativity.

So…..what are you waiting for?….Challenge yourself……..Go Create! 

 

Challenge:  Over the course of the week, take 3 of these ideas. Express your ‘self’

 

 

  Make a portrait of yourself in twenty years. Or in fifty years. Or both
  Write an autobiographical poem or write the chapter titles in your autobiography. Or illustrate your book cover
 Draw something you keep putting off, or something that causes you to procrastinate
  Explore what your space says about you
 Express yourself in art – Use a journal to record your stream of consciousness.  Record your thoughts, draw images that come to your mind
 Bullet your day – (Describe what you do exactly). Can you make art or write a poem from your objective descriptions?
 Take an engaging self portrait of yourself (Not exactly a selfie, show who you are without including yourself, or include only part of your face or body)
 Happy Memories. Can you turn them into something artistic, what were the colours, smells, can you create a colour palette inspired by where you were?
 Lose yourself in your imagination. If your favourite artist, musician, author, film maker, or photographer, commissioned you to create something based on their work, what would you make?
 Have fun with your personal style
 Take a photograph that captures an emotion at the moment of pressing the shutter button, what do you see that connects with that emotion?

 

How to share:
  • Use Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @campuscreate to post your response. Don’t forget to use the hashtag #ispark
  • If you are not on social media, find out how to participate

Prompt 3 ‘Place’ Oh the places you’ll go!
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What’s your favourite line from Dr. Seuss’s book, “Oh, The Places You’ll Go”?

Draw some inspiration, and share it with us

Resources:

Watch the vimeo video above or see an animated version of Dr. Seuss’s book on YouTube here

 

How to share:
  • Use Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @campuscreate to post your response. Don’t forget to use the hashtag #placespark
  • If you are not on social media, find out how to participate

Prompt 5 ‘Teanga’ Send a Postcard from Galway
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Athenry postcard
National Library of Ireland – Valentine Photographic Collection, PC

 

Your challenge: Make a postcard celebrating our new status as a bilingual city

Dúshlán duit: Cruthaigh cárta poist ag ceiliúradh an stádas dátheangach a bronnadh ar Chathair na Gaillimhe an tseachtain seo

 

Resources/Acmhainní:

Design your postcard online with Postcard Creator here or with Canva here

Or make it manually, standard size is 4 x 6 inches, just photograph and upload

 

 

Take Part/Glac Páirt:

Ná déan dearmad #teangaspark a usáid ar Twitter, Facebook nó Instagram | Don’t forget to to  use the hashtag #teangaspark on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram

Tuilleadh eolas ar conas párt a ghlacadh i mBéarla | How to take part

 

 

Prompt 1 ‘Shapes’ – Tangram
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Tangram Set by origami_madness, on Flickr
“Tangram Set” (CC BY-NC 2.0) by origami_madness
“The tangram  is a dissection puzzle consisting of seven flat shapes, called tans, which are put together to form shapes. The objective of the puzzle is to form a specific shape using all seven pieces, which may not overlap” -Wikipedia

Your challenge: Print out the template below, cut out the 7 shapes and make a new image using all 7 pieces, taking care that they do not overlap

Resources:

Template to print : Black and White or Colour – (via http://www.activityvillage.co.uk)

Examples of Tangrams here

 

How to participate
  • Use Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @campuscreate your response. Don’t forget to use the hashtag #shapespark
  • If you are not on social media, find out how to participate

Prompt 5 ‘Water’ – Origami
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Origami is the Japanese word for paper folding.

Ori means to fold and Kami means paper.  Origami is an art form, a form of sculpture that uses folding

Today’s Challenge: Make an Origami fish

Resources:

Here’s a tutorial on Origami

Watch Robert Lang’s TED talk on Origami

How to participate
  • Use Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @campuscreate your response. Don’t forget to use the hashtag #waterspark
  • If you are not on social media, find out how to participate

Prompt 4 ‘Colour’ – Picture made of paper
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I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

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Today’s challenge: Create a picture using torn up pieces of newspaper/white paper/brown paper.  No pens or pencils allowed.

(Special thanks to Hilary Morley for submitting today’s creative prompt)

  • How to participate
    • Use Twitter, Instagram or Facebook @campuscreate to respond. Don’t forget to use the hashtag #colourspark
    • If you are not on social media, find out how to participate