Go to the nearest body of water. It could be a puddle or a pond, or a stream. Find as many different things as you can to smudge on a page. Different colors, scrapes from rocks, rubbed plants. How many ways can your page interact with the water? (Parental supervision required for this activity.)
(for Asha, from the show All in a Day, CBC Radio Ottawa, host Alan Neal)
Keri Smith is a Canadian conceptual artist and author of several bestselling books and apps about creativity including Wreck This Journal (Penguin), This is Not a Book (Penguin), and How to be an Explorer of the World -the Portable Life/Art Museum.
Keri conducts workshops based on her books and formerly taught a class in conceptual illustration at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, in Vancouver Canada. The main focus of her work/research is on creating what the writer Umberto Eco called “Open works”, pieces that are completed by the reader/user.
