Creativity Inspiring In Spring - April 15, 2008 Newsletter

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April 15, 2008 | Creativity Inspiring In Spring

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"When approached simply, the meeting of this vastness becomes one innocent moment at a time." — Jan Haller, A Blank Piece of Paper

In This Issue

April 2008 Journal
Monthly Columns & Featured Series
More What’s New @ the CP

April 2008 Journal

Introducing Creativity Corner Essays by Artist Jan Haller
By Chris Dunmire, Publisher

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

Chris Dunmire
Creative Director and Publisher

Monthly Columns & Featured Series

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.

More What's New @ the CP

Journey Into the Imagination — Traveling to the Land of Betwixt and Between
By Emily Hanlon
The place of betwixt and between is the magic, the mystery, the essence of creativity when nothing is what it seems and everything is possible.

Cheeky Characters Write Themselves
By Ryan Edel
The expectation of great work kills the creative process. It turns writers into control freaks.

How to Avoid Prematurely Killing the Next Big Idea
By Jonathan Vehar www.newandimproved.com
New ideas look strange. They seem impractical. They make us feel uncomfortable, and they change the status quo.