You will need:

• a sketchbook or journal
• colouring and drawing media

Do:

• Replicate famous artworks or studying various artists’ techniques.
• Experiment with colour palettes.
• Explore different art styles - see below.

abstract art, abstract expressionism, acrylic painting, alabaster carving, animation, assemblage, audio art, batik, blackout art, block printing, book embellishments, bookbinding, brush lettering, calligraphy, cartooning, ceramics, collage, coloured pencils, comic books, composing, contemporary art, crochet, decalcomania, digital art, doodling, dot art, double exposure photography, drawing, Ebru, embroidery, engraving, ephemera arts, erasure poetry, etching, felting, fibre arts, filigree, film-making, finger painting, folk arts, frescos, glass arts, glazing, gouache, graffiti, graphic design, grisaille, hand lettering, hatching, henna tattoos, hieroglyphics, illustration, impasto, impressionism, India ink, ink blots, ink wash, inlays, installation art, intaglio, jewellery making, junk art, kinetic art, kintsugi, knitting, landscape painting, landscapes, leatherwork, letterpress, lino printing, macrame, marbling, metalwork, mixed media, mosaics, music, needlepoint, oil painting, non-representational, op art, origami, outsider art, paint skins, paper cutting, paper making, paper marbling, papier-mache, pastels, photography, pottery, printmaking, quilling, quilting, raku, recycled art, relief printing, resin art, resist painting, sand art, scratch art, screen-printing, sculpture, sewing, sound art, stickers, string art, surrealism, textiles, texture, tie-dyeing, tile arts, traditional crafts, upcycling, urban art, video art, visual poetry, watercolour painting, weaving, wire arts, woodworking, writing lyrics, Xerox art, xylography, yarn art, yarn bombing, zine making

writing styles/forms

acrostic, advertisement, article, autobiography, ballad, biography, blank verse, brochure, bullet list, case study, cento, cinquain, comedy sketch, common meter, concrete poem, contract, couplets, cut-up technique, decastich, dialogue, diary entry, dissertation, dramatic monologue, editorial, ekphrastic poetry, ekphrastic prose, elegy, envelope quatrain, epigram, epistle, essay, fable, fairy tale, flash fiction, folklore, found poetry, free verse, guidebook, hymn, internal rhyme, interview, inventory, joke, journal entry, kyrielle, landscape description, legend, limerick, lyric poetry, lyrics, manual, medical report, memoir, metafiction, micro-fiction, monorhyme, myth, narrative poetry, nature writing, nonce form, nonet, novel, octave, ode, opera libretto, opinion piece, outline, pantoum, parody, play, portrait, prayer, profile, proposal, prose poem, quatrain, questionnaire, radio drama, religious tract, report, review, rondeau, rondelet, roundel, rubaiyat, satire, screenplay, script, sensory writing, sermon, sestet, sestina, short story, sonnet, speech, story, stream of consciousness, teleplay, tercet, terza rima, textbook, thesis, travelogue, triolet, user guide, villanelle