Many creative folks are busy folks, and certainly the successful ones! That brings challenges to finding time to actually be creative and to do your creative work. Whether you consider the life of a professional artist with thousands of customers and followers or consider a budding hobbyist with a day job, the actual time they … Continue reading
My wife was in a job she didn’t really like for many years. As a continually self-educating professional, she was excellent at her job and many people complimented her as such but due to cost cutting efforts in the company she worked for, they “let her go” and replaced her position with a much, … Continue reading
We are all predominantly from a single culture that shapes our art and work. We may still be residing in that same culture or in a completely different one and those are heavy influences on our style and forms of expression. Our creativity stems from our experiences and how we connect and combine those … Continue reading
I am a big fan of learning. In fact, somewhere during high school, I figured out how to learn new things quickly. I’m not sure how it happened exactly but it may have had to do with the workload I had and trying to balance that with sports, working on my car, playing music, and … Continue reading
One of the best exercises to generate creative ideas specific to something you already know or are currently working on is to extrapolate into the future from the current state of that thing or item. Let me explain. New ideas are fundamentally based on other ideas. My theory on creativity is that at the most … Continue reading
One of the most surprising and most productive creativity exercises I’ve ever tried (and continue to use frequently) is free sketching or free writing to music. It’s a simple exercise that surprises me with great results every time. Here’s how it works. Go to your favorite music service like a Spotify, iTunes, Pandora, or … Continue reading
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