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What if trees grew glowing lightbulbs instead of leaves, or fish swam through the clouds like birds?
When you draw what is right in front of you, you use observation — but when you invent worlds that cannot exist in real life, you use imagination.
How do artists come up with these unbelievable ideas without getting stuck staring at a blank page?

Three Imagination Strategies

Artists do not make things up from nothing; they use creative strategies to remix real things into original ideas.
The first strategy is combining, where you fuse two unrelated objects together, like crossing a sea turtle with an ancient castle.
The second strategy is scale shifting, which means making something tiny into a giant or shrinking a huge object to fit in your pocket.
The third strategy is material swapping, which means replacing what an object is made of, such as a mountain made of stacked library books.
What does it look like when you put these strategies to work step-by-step?

Step-by-Step Idea Building

Let's build an original artwork idea starting with a normal object: a yellow school bus.