Responding to stimuliResponding to stimuli in expressive work
Artists and designers find stimuli in the world around them or research a particular topic to find stimuli. They use this material to help them generate a personal creative response in their work.
As well as selecting the stimuli, you need to make a personal response. There are many different ways to respond to stimuli:
Make a list or a spidergram to explore all possibilities.
Doodle some initial ideas in your sketchbook.
Make a collageA technique which involves making an image from sticking pieces of paper, photographs, textiles and/or objects onto a surface.
of images in your sketchbook.
Copy an artist's work to explore their technique so that you can then apply it to your own ideas.
Take photos as a record to work from later.
Make a collection of inspirational artists' work.
Make drawings using different techniques.
The spidergram below shows how you might start exploring the idea of a caf茅 table.