Lime 🍋‍🟩 Twist Set № 02

A fresh list of possibilities for the week ahead

Hi everyone, it’s Tammy. A set of “twists” for you to tackle, ponder, and otherwise contemplate. In other words, let’s go make stuff! For a frame of reference, start with the intro and № Set 01. You can hop in any time, no need to catch up.

Mini-challenge: Lime Twist

Here’s how it works. Easy peasy. Challenge open to all. Free, no registration required. Start anywhere. Do any or all. I’ll share a set of 5 actionable “twists” each week this month. Now here’s the fun part. If more than one resonates/sounds tempting (and you have time), that’s wonderful, but one is enough.

🌞 each week, you'll get a batch of 5+ ideas
🍋‍🟩 conversion factor: one idea = one twist
🔭 skim the list
✔️ select [one] idea
🌈 do it within 7 days
📋 report back in comments

Lime Twist Set № 02

🗝️ Select one (1) of these five (5) twists for this week.¹

Please let me know if this sounds like fun! Are they too easy, too difficult? Can you find ONE that resonates!!?!?! Hint: You can use a twist as a warm-up or use it to prompt/start your art for the day.

Note: The examples are meant to clarify what I’m talking about and visualize one possible way to interpret the idea. As always, prompts are open-ended so please let your imagination be your guide.

1. Test all of your markers.

   Or, alternatively, test one type of marker. Here’s what happened when I went through decades old markers including my daughter’s old PITT brush pens & a set of brush markers from Japan. Yup, collage fodder!

2. Make a vertical striped collage.

   Cut narrow strips from different papers including painted papers, leftovers, maps, gelatin prints, found text, patterned paper, etc. Attach to an index card or fill an entire journal page! Use liquid adhesive, glue stick, double-sided tape, or thread. Some vertical collages (using “glue dots” to adhere the strips; they add depth and texture and are surprisingly strong).

   

3. Incorporate found text in your art.

   In art journaling we use the term found text² to mean text cut from an existing source such as a magazine, book, label on your jeans, tourist map, fortune, lottery ticket, etc. You can use imagery that already has text, use found text to add meaning, use a definition from an old dictionary, or use typography as a graphic design element.

   

   

4. Fill a page or a few small cards by painting one repeating shape.

   This is surprisingly meditative, the act of making the same movement with the brush over and over again. I like to cut down large watercolor paper into 3x3” squares; painted these in gouache with a small brush. These are fun to do in batches!

5. Practice slow journaling.

   This is about intentionally slowing down the pace of your writing in order to change the experience. When each letter is deliberate, there is no way to rush. I find this tactile experience both grounding and meditative. Draw slightly wavy lines and as you write each letter you s-t-r-e-t-c-h so it touches both the upper & lower boundaries. Here’s one of several posts at the blog about slow journaling! In the example, I wrote the lyrics to Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield.

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Cheers,
Tammy

1. You are welcome to extrapolate or alter a “twist” to make it apply to the kind of work you are doing.

2. While I intuitively understand the term, I couldn't find many definitions. Per The University of Iowa Book Arts Database, “A found text takes an existing text (a poem, a newspaper article, a grocery list, any preexisting text) and puts it into a new context to create a new, intentional piece of writing.” There is a lot of writing about the art of found poetry and we can derive the concept of found text. I plan to do a future twist that centers around found poetry, so stay tuned.