Eight Habits of The Creatively Intelligent
We’d all be more creative if we paid less attention to the surfaces, our doings and achievements, our ambitions and desires; and more attention to the depths, the hidden forces and faculties that lie within ourselves and others.
Nurture Your Creativity: List What You're Thankful For
Much has been written about gratitude throughout the centuries, and with a common theme: Gratitude is a positive attitude or emotion that benefits us greatly when it's employed.
Author Lisa Crone's Inspiring Success Story
Her secret to intermixing positivity with passion and publishing her first book 'A Bead in Time: 35 Jewelry Projects Inspired by Slices of Life.'
The Joy of Creativity: Emergence
If I allow myself to speak, write words, or paint marks without knowing what I am going to say next or what I’ll end up with, eventually something will emerge.
Not-Knowing: A Sometimes Unnerving but Utterly Reliable Guide
We want to know. We want to know things beforehand, ahead of time. We want to know where we are going, why we are going there, what we will encounter (and should thus prepare for) along the way.
I'm happy to announce that through our ongoing partnership with Art of the Song Creativity Radio, Creativity Portal will be proud host to a new series of creativity-inspiring essays by artist Jan Haller. Jan has been a painter for 30 years and is the founder of Magic Brush Studios in Taos, New Mexico, where she teaches painting to children and adults.
Jan's first essay published on the Creativity Portal, A Blank Piece of Paper, reveals the fascination of creating when there is the freedom to let anything happen. Welcome, Jan!
Inspiring Spring Thoughts on the Flowering Artist Violette
In these Midwest parts, they say that "April showers bring May flowers." So as I patiently wait for my very first ever batch of perennial bulbs to peek through the soil, pop in full bloom, and fill my gardens with a delightful palette of colors, I sighfully look out my window at the overcast sky dampening our neighborhood with a Thursday morning rain shower.
Chris Dunmire
Creative Director and Publisher
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Art of the Song Creativity Corner A Blank Piece of Paper... By Jan Haller
If you have twenty colors in front of you, one will catch your eye, and, with your permission will pull you like a magnet to pick it up.
