Here are a couple fun ideas to get you started. Feel free to e-mail Devin with any questions. Study the use of positive and negative space. Draw from nature, perhaps begin a nature notebook. Find pictures of exotic flowers or buy them from a florist and draw them with oil pastels.
Orchids are a very good subject.
Draw a mountain scene and either paint it or use oil pastels. Make sand paintings using Indian designs. Cut a piece of brown cardboard into the general shape of a buffalo head, cut holes for the eyes and glue curled strips of brown paper to it. Draw children at school or play. Do a living tableau or draw or paint pictures that tell an exciting story.