Theme Ideas
30 August 2008
Whether you’re doing altered books, decos, artist trading cards, or any other type of swapable artwork, sooner or later, you need theme ideas. I’ve been collecting these from the various groups I moderate and projects I host for about two years. Last time I checked, there were 138 themes listed—surely you’ll find something here to break your creative block!
(Edited March, 2004 – now over 240 themes!)
(Edited August, 2008 – now over 350 themes!)
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60’s 70’s 80’s Abstract Africa All about me Alphabet or dictionary Altered photos American fifties ads Anatomy Ancient civilizations Ancient cultures Ancient history Ancient spirits Andy Warhol (or any other artist) Angels Animals Antique maps Anything antique Archetypes Around the world Art Nouveau Asian Astrology Astronomy At the beach Au Naturel Autumn Babies Bad art Bats Bears Beeswax Best inventions of the world Bingo Birds Black and white (or any color combination) Board books Boats Body parts Books Bronze Butterflies Camelot Carnival Cartoon characters Carve your own stamps Cats Celebration of the body Celestial Celtic Cemeteries Chakras Childhood Childhood memories Children Chocolate Christmas Circus Cityscapes Classical composers Clowns Cocktails Coffee Collage Colors Comics Costumes Cowboys Cowgirls Crazy weather Create your own goddess Creative Life Creepy Cultures Cupcakes Dance Dark and strange Darkness Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) Desire Digital Disguise/masquerade Dolls Doors Doors & windows Dragonflies Dragons Dream landscapes Dreams Eggs Egyptian Elegance Elements Elephants Emotional self-portrait Experiments Eyeglasses Eyes Fabric Faces Fairies Fairy tales and folklore Famous landmarks Famous poets Famous women Fantasy Fashion Faux postage Favorite Films Felines Feminine mystique Fibers Figments of your imagination Film Flowers Food/cooking/edible stuff Footprints Foreign text Fortune cookie sayings Found objects Found poetry Four seasons Fruits & vegetables Fun Game pieces Games people play Garden tools Gardens Genealogy/ancestors Geometric shapes Ghosts Girlfriends Gnomes Goddess in every woman Goddesses Grasses Growth Gypsy Halloween Hand-drawn Hands Handwritten Happiness is… Harvest Hats Hearts Herbs Heroines Historical costumes Hobbies Holidays House of blues House & home Houses Imaginary maps Imaginary places India Insects Inspiration Instruction booklets Italy Jazz Jesters and jokers Joy King Arthur Kings and Queens Labels Lace Landscapes Languages Lavender Leaves Leonardo da Vinci (or any famous artist) Life’s lessons Lighthouses Literature |
Love Made up countries or lands Magic garden Magic of the ordinary Magical creatures Magical recipes Marie Antoinette Maps Masks Men Merry-go-round Metal Mermaids Middle East Mimes Mixed media Money Monochromatic Monsters Motherhood Motorcycles Motown Moving parts Music Music of the spheres My favorite things My life Mythological creatures Mythology Native American Nature Nature spirits Newspaper clippings Night Nightmare before Christmas Numbers Ocean Odd objects Ode to famous artists Office supplies Old-timer cars One image Optical illusions Owls Paris Past times Patchwork Pets Photography Photos from the attic Pictures Pin ups Pirates Play on words Poetry Politics Portraits Postal Postcard Pre-Raphaelites (or any artistic movement) Printmaking Puppets Puzzles Queen of hearts Questions Quotations Rain Rainbow Recycled materials Reflections Resolutions Robin Hood Robots & spaceships Roosters Rubber stamping Rubbings Sacred spaces Santas School days Sea Seascapes Seasonal celebrations Seasons Second chance Self-portrait Serengeti Seven wonders Sewing Shrines Snap shots Snowmen Solar System Solitude Spells and magic Spice Sports Spring Steampunk Stenciled motifs Still life Story lines Storybook Summer Super heroes Surrealist Swirls Symbols Tags Talking trees Tarot cards Tea Tea Time Teddy bears Telephones Textures Theater Things with wings Throw away collage Tim Burton (or any modern film artist) Time Time travel Toys Traditional costumes Transparencies Travel Treasure decos Treasure maps Tree of life Trees Trucks T-shirt sayings Typewriter Underwater Unicorns Unreal cities Un-themed Urban moments Use acrylics only Use pencils only Use the computer only Use watercolor only Using lace Vampires and creatures of the night Venice Vintage Vintage fashion Vintage men Vintage nudes Vintage photos Vintage voyage Vintage wallpaper Wall art Water Weather Weird Weird science Weirdness Where I live Whimsical Wild animals Wild west Wild women Windows Wine Wine, women and song Wings Winter Witches Wizard of Oz Women Women heroines Wonderful women Words of wisdom World Holidays World Religons Zetti Zodiac |
