Everything She Lost Came Back as Birds

Every Tuesday, I post an art prompt to spark a little bit of inspiration for your creativity. These posts are versatile and can be applied to a variety of creative mediums. Whether you enjoy digital art or acrylic painting (or anything in between like tags, mixed media, collage, etc), these fun prompts will help you generate ideas for a new project, or maybe add a fun spin to a current project.

For this week, we are going to use the idea of letting go and returning as our inspiration.

The Prompt: Use the statement "everything she lost came back as birds" as inspiration for creating an art piece. What was lost — and what returns? It could be a woman standing in a field as a flock spirals home to her, a birdcage flung open with feathers scattering into words, letters and photographs taking wing off a table, or something more inward — grief becoming song, memories roosting in the branches of an old family tree. Let your interpretation lead you. Make sure your artwork includes at least one bird (or feather, wing, nest, or egg — whatever calls to you), and for a creative twist, try transformation: let one thing visibly become another, such as pages turning into wings, hair unraveling into swallows, or shadows lifting off into flight.

This prompt is for any art medium or style.

My challenges and prompts are not interactive. You don't have to come back to link up. No comments are required, just your creativity!

For more inspiration, here is a digital art piece I created with the prompt: