Artist's Date Ideas

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Go for a bike ride; include the steep hill you loved to fly down as a child

Go to the circus

Take a walk during your lunch break and really notice everything around you

Listen to your favorite music while sipping on a cup of hot cocoa or cappuccino

Take a long soak in a hot bathtub

Browse a craft gallery -- the stores that sell what other crafters/artists make

Fly a kite

Make a snow creature

Take a walk while it is snowing and listen for the gentle sound of the flakes coming to
rest, make a snow angel before you go inside for a rest by the fireplace or a mug of cocoa or soup

Color in a coloring book

Read aloud several children's books to yourself; have fun creating different voices for the different characters or adding expression to your reading

Watch the sun rise or set

Go to an art museum or art fair

Meditate to the sound of a water fountain

Visit an artist’s supply shop.

Spend some time outdoors with your journal, sketchbook, craft supplies, etc.

Go for a walk, and take your camera with you to document the experience.

Stop by the library, and check out some CDs.

Set a timer, and spend an hour working on something you’ve been putting off.

Create an artist’s workspace in your home.

See an Oscar-nominated movie or a foreign film.

If you don’t have an artist’s blog, start one.

Visit a “creative” shop that has nothing to do with what you actually do–an art supply store, a fabric shop, a music store.

Grab a stack of magazines, and clip whatever looks interesting or cool to create your own inspiration board.

Support the local arts scene. Go to a local festival, music event, art show, play, museum exhibit, etc.

Plant something. Start your own herb garden. Butterfly garden. Plant a tomato or some bulbs. Try a “guerilla garden,” and scatter seeds randomly somewhere to see what grows.

Spend an hour going through your books. Pick ten to read or re-read and ten to donate to charity.

Go to a thrift store. Give yourself 5$ to spend and find something really great that you can do something creative with.

Take a walk on a nature trail. Take your camera.

Write a letter - longhand, on pretty paper - to an old friend.

Give yourself a beauty treatment - a cuticle treatment, a foot soak, exfoliation, hot oil treat, etc.

Go sit at the pond and play in your sketchbook.

Visit all of your childhood playhouse and fort sites.

Sit in the driveway and make designs with pretty rocks. Sing campfire songs.

Sit in the porch-swing and lean your head back as far as you can and look up at the tree branches backward. Think of as many Shakespearean poems as you can while you are doing this.