30 ideas for your date with the artist

The artist appointment is a weekly hour alone, dedicated to nurturing your creativity. Simple in theory, but many abandon it for an unexpected reason: they don't know what to do. Here you have thirty proposals for more than half a year.

The artist appointment is a weekly hour alone, dedicated to nurturing your creativity. Simple in theory, but many abandon it for an unexpected reason: they don't know what to do. Here are thirty ideas so that you don't lack options for more than half a year.

Ideas for inside the house

1. Cook a recipe you've never tried, from a cuisine you don't know. 2. Paint with watercolors — it doesn't matter if you don't know; The goal is to play. 3. Listen to an entire album, with headphones, without doing anything else. 4. Cut out images from magazines and make a collage of what you want your creative life to be like. 5. Organize a drawer and turn it into a ritual: play music, take your time. 6. Write a letter to your fifteen-year-old self. 7. Watch a movie in a language you don't understand, just for the pictures. 8. Draw your left hand with your right (or the other way around). 9. Make a list of one hundred things you would like to do before you die. 10. Read poetry out loud, even if you feel ridiculous.

Ideas for away from home

11. Go to a fabric store and feel the textures. 12. Visit an ancient cemetery and read the inscriptions. 13. Walk through a neighborhood you don't know without a map. 14. Sit in a coffee shop and draw people passing by. 15. Go to a bookstore and buy a book just for the cover. 16. Visit a flea market and look for an object that calls to you without knowing why. 17. Enter a church, a temple or a sacred space, just to feel the silence. 18. Go to a concert of a genre you've never heard before. 19. Stroll through a botanical garden or nursery. 20. Go see a play or a street show.

Ideas for the adventurous artist

21. Sign up for a trial class in something you've never done before: pottery, salsa, fencing. 22. Get on a random bus and get off whenever you feel like it. 23. Photograph twenty beautiful things in an hour. 24. Write a poem on a park bench and leave it there. 25. Go to a museum that doesn't interest you and look for something that will surprise you. 26. Sit on the floor of a music store and listen to vinyl. 27. Buy flowers at a market and arrange a bouquet. 28. Go to the movies alone, to a movie you wouldn't normally choose. 29. Outdoor cooking: prepare a picnic for yourself. 30. Go out at dawn and write the first thing you think when you see the light.

The golden rule

The quote is alone. No partner, no friends, no children. It is not selfishness: it is the condition for it to work. When you are accompanied, you serve others. When you are alone, you take care of yourself. And your inner artist needs that attention to trust that you mean business.