Brainstorming

The year was 1996, the place was Central St Martins School of Art - the evening illustration course. The first week's homework, "One hundred sixty plus one", was to do 16 quick thumbnails on a variety of topics: trees -buildings, animal -
suns, mode of transport -
hero/heroine, villains -
household object, types of weather -
death -
So much brainstorming in one week. It felt impossible and you can see there are gaps. But, in retrospect, what a good warmup exercise for the rest of the course!

I wasn't sure then, and am not sure now, whether to gather all possible media and "just start" with one topic, keeping going - and then go on to the next; or think about it, make a list of possibilities, and work down the list....

These surfaced shortly after I read about Liz Copeland's homework assignment to make 50 fabric collages - on one theme - in a week.