{"id":19914,"date":"2023-05-03T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=19914"},"modified":"2026-01-20T10:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:58:10","slug":"art-prompts-for-aspiring-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/art-prompts-for-aspiring-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Art prompts for aspiring artists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Written by: <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jude Bokovoy<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the mood to make some art but lacking inspiration? The brainstorming has been done so one doesn\u2019t have to. Follow or take another path with any of the prompts below. All of these were accumulated to be used with any art medium \u2014 photoshop, clay or watercolor \u2014 anything under the sun, go for it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What does it look or feel like to be underwater?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hypothetical mountain with colorful unrealistic scenery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A dessert that reminds one of a beloved family member.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A really complex rock.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Xylophone \u2014 that&#8217;s it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What it feels to make something out of clay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rain \u2014 the sound, appearance, feeling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recreate an art piece one made 10 years ago.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grass stains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Describe how a flower smells through your art.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cloudy \u2014 mentally, emotionally or a cloudy day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A valley full of completely made-up flowers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A snack that reminds one of childhood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paw prints in the sand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A pink lake, what would inhabit it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An animal in their element.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What it feels like to lay in the sun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A good hug.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shadows from direct sun.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Summer&#8217;s first sunburn.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact the author at howllifestyle@mail.wou.edu<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":19915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24277,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19914\/revisions\/24277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}