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.
Just in case you haven't had your fill of Christmas crafting yet, here's two new projects I toyed with in my Crafty Christmas Creativity! playshops. Both kids and adults embraced the Candy Cane-Deer ornament and world-famous Snowman Poop razz gags with glee.
A final gift to you from our very talented writer Molly Anderson-Childers: An exclusive interview with the Nutcracker's Sugar Plum Fairy. Imagine that! How she tracked this fairy down, we'll never know.
Introducing Cartoonist Jeff Scarterfield
We're happy to introduce cartoon artist Jeff Scarterfield as the newest addition to our Author Series feature. Jeff enjoys helping people with reaching their drawing-related goals by offering complimentary, step-by-step drawing lessons on his Web site: How to Draw Cartoons Online.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to the rest of you!
Chris Dunmire
Creative Director & Publisher
Monthly Columns & Featured Series
Beauties Yet Unborn By Kristi Tencarre
What beauties can we bring forth into our world? I encourage you to consider your talents and seek to bring them into the light.
Creativity Portal Playground Projects Candy Cane-Deer Christmas Ornament Craft By Chris Dunmire
A pun kid's project to add to the Christmas craft collective consciousness.
Creative Careers in the Arts Interviews An Interview with Mask-Making Artist Annette Rose By Molly Anderson-Childers
Annette is co-creator of the Multimask System and currently working with schools and communities around the world to bring masking into the mainstream.
Bonus Christmas Interview! Sugar Plum Fairy
Granted the power to make wishes come true, and charged with creating visions of sugar-plums to dance in the heads of sweetly sleeping children, it might seem at a first glance that her life is carefree and happy, a simple existence in an enchanted land.
More What's New @ the CP
Using Photography to Inspire Writing — Part 3 By Hank Kellner
Photographs that feature people involved in some form of activity always elicit interesting verbal and written responses from students.
Creative Photo Inspiration Prompts: Light on a Leaf By Cynthia Staples
Unadorned by leaves, the oak tree's shadow will be mostly static, stolid and steadfast, braced against the inevitable winter winds and weight of snow.
Art Careers in Transition By Barbara Bowen
It's hard to change, at first. The good news is: it gets easier.
Learning How to Draw... Made Easy? By Jeff Scarterfield
Truth be told, anything and everything we could ever wish to draw can be broken down into a simple arrangement of basic shapes.
