Art of the Song: Creativity — Intelligent and Trustworthy
The common idea is that some are creative and some are not. We’ve confused the concept of talent of creativity. Our longing to create doesn’t come from a tendency towards a particular talent, but an innate need to manifest the truth of who we are.
Creative Abstracting
Because sense experience and sense imagery are rich and complex, creative people in all disciplines also use abstracting as an essential tool.
Business Success, the Creative Way
Business requires sustainability. Business seeks niches. Sustainability and niche marketing are achieved through creative practices.
Scar Tissue: Celebrating Failure
We all bare the scars of failure. Life breaks everyone. However, some people end up stronger in the broken places.
Creative Imaging and Enhanced Insight
Is creativity a learnable skill? And can anyone learn to perform those extraordinary feats we traditionally think of as limited to a few talented individuals?
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.
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Creative Imaging and Enhanced Insight By David Jiles, Ph.D.
The relationship between the ability to concentrate on visual images and the ability to invoke creative states is one of the latest frontiers in cognitive psychology. The case of the inventor Nikola Tesla seems to substantiate the existence of such a relationship.
