Donald M. Rattner
Your home is more than a castle; it's a catalyst for creative ideas. Learn how to design your space to stimulate ideas and how simple and accessible techniques for shaping your home can boost creativity and spark innovation.
Angela Blaha
Seeing deeply isn't just about what's visible — it's about perceiving the layers most people overlook. It's about recognizing the weight of history in a weathered door frame, the whisper of a story in an abandoned street, the presence of something beyond words at a glance.
The Dejitaru o mi kuji taipu, or The World's Oldest Microblogging Platform, rightly takes its seat in the history of social media! Play with the tool now to exercise your creative writing or to make your own printable fortune messages!
funmire
Recall the carefree days of childhood, when the world was your playground, and laughter echoed through the air. That youthful spirit still resides within you, and it's time to reconnect with it.
Eric Maisel
To be the ethical, engaged, creative, successful, and lively human being you intend to be, you need your brain. If you don't use your brain you will find yourself trapped in trivialities, condemned to impulsivity, led around by anxiety, and duller and sadder than you have any need to be.
Ira Verant's FREE! Popcorn Book
Doodling, which involves sketching seemingly random patterns or shapes, is a form of spontaneous and subconscious creative expression. Contrary to the conventional belief that it hinders productivity, research indicates that doodling can enhance concentration and memory retention.
Angela Blaha
As an artist, my journey has always been about pushing boundaries — exploring the unseen, uncovering deeper layers of meaning, and continuously evolving my style. But in a world where originality feels elusive and inspiration can sometimes stall, I've found an unlikely yet powerful ally in AI.
Profiles of Creative Empowerment
I'm a total believer that when an achievable idea clicks, it happens quickly and effortlessly (at least at the beginning) and then it sticks. It's as if it was pre-designed, pre-orchestrated, pre-choreographed in the waiting room of ideas.
Perfect Personal Essay
If you are the expert and you don't show me your broken heart — that you have been mortified at a dinner party, that you gossiped about someone who was standing within earshot, — I can't find myself in your story.
Rita Farin
"Who wants to spend their life painting rabbits and copper bowls?" asks the 91-year-old Georgia O'Keeffe in her 1977 documentary. O'Keeffe stopped painting because she didn't feel like she had her own style.
ADVENTure #9
Existing in the Northern Hemisphere at least since the 14th Century, the highly-intuitive, suggestive, The Halls™ Deck is used by skilled practitioners of the Arts and Crafts coterie to interpret, forecast, and crochet symbols, motifs, and typography into affirming messages.
Madam Bedazzle's Tarotble Readings
Madam Bedazzle says there's some important lessons to be had around fortunes and hones in on the common pairing of fortunately // unfortunately in the the game of optimistic one-upping. As always, remember Bedazzle's advice is always well-meaning, even if a little iffy.
SoulCollage® Prompt
Spend some time listening for your own inner voice of impatience. Remember that it is only a small part of you. Notice how it makes itself known to you in your body.
Fostering Creativity in Children
I'm consistently reminded that my first impressions of a child's idea are often way off the mark. What looked to me like a dinosaur turned out to be a robot; what I thought was a puppy scampering was meant to be a unicorn.
Modern Day Muses
Bea Silly is the Muse of play, laughter, and dance. Bea Silly's name means bringing play, fun, laughter, and freedom back to the creative process. On Bea-ing Silly: Solutions that seemed so evasive earlier appear effortlessly in the midst of play.
Invoking the Muses
The Athenian muses were the nine sister goddesses of imagination, inspiration, and the arts in ancient Greek mythology. Euterpe, the Athenian Goddess of lyric poetry and music has many gifts to share.
Danielle Dulsky
To be human is to be tasked to create. We are born with the capacity to feel deeply for a reason, with the instinct to make something new out of the old and birth some great majesty from the union between body and imagination. To place restrictions on a woman's sensuality is also to restrain her creativity.
Robert Joyner
Full-time artist and instructor Robert Joyner specialzes in blending quality fundamentals with unconventional painting techniques. Instead of creating predictable art, he opts to catch lightning in a bottle! Let him show you how to paint loose watercolors and abstract art with acrylic and mixed media.
Creativity 1-2-3
How did you discover your favorite mediums and modes? Florence Scovel Shinn • A Lifetime of Creative Opportunity • Paying Attention to Possibilities with Aha-phrodite • Melding Passion and Purpose • Prompts: Walking Poems.
