Summer Creative Intensive: Day 2

Today’s prompt is simple, but surprisingly powerful: 🕵🏽‍♀️

Take a walk, and follow one color.

This idea has been around a long time… most famously used by writer William Burroughs, who called it “walking on colors.” The premise is this: pick a single color before you head out (red, blue, green - no wrong color, maybe start with a color you’re wearing), and then open your door and look for it everywhere.

If you’re familiar with The Artist’s Way think of this as your artist date… you are taking your artist self on a date — not to produce anything, just to drink in the inspiration all around you.

Maybe you want to drive to a neighborhood you really like, or park you’ve been meaning to visit, or head to the bustle of Main Street to take your color walk.

I love walking for inspiration in general because I notice things I would’ve walked right past... and focusing in on one color intensifies that. You’ll see how many different versions of one color show up in your neighborhood, your path, your city.

It’s a way to get out of your head and into your senses.

You can take photos if that helps you stay focused. Or just observe. Maybe something catches your eye — a leaf, a label, a flower — and you bring it back to paint. Or maybe the color on your walk ends up weaving itself through your day.

There’s no one right way to do this.