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New stuff! Want to see what we've been up to each week at the Creativity Portal? Keep an eye on this page for the latest and greatest additions, interviews, features, articles, how-to art and craft projects and new Websources added to our site.

July 2009

• The Creative Process of an Egg Tempera Painting
• Juicy Journals & Wild Words: Creating a Nature Journal
• Interview with Author Michael Michalko [2] [3] [4]
• Happy Modern Day Muses (and a Bodyguard) Month!

• Christine Mason Miller Interview — Swirly Girl Creator
• Riding Lessons for Artists 6: Community
• Commit to Your Authentic Expression — The Muse in Timothy Leary
• Curious Creative Blocks [2]
• Spoiled Food Leads to Fresh Start
• How to Make a Canvas Rug Floor Cloth
• The Fount of Inspiration: Muses of Water
• The Tao of Pippi Longstocking — An Enormous Creative Being
• Music is Passion and Singing is...Everything!

• Updated: Exploring Mosaic Art
• Updated: Top-10 Benefits of Play
• Updated: Humor and Creative Thinking
• Updated: Nobody’s Perfect… or Surrender to Your Humanity
• Updated: Nancy Mills Spirited Woman Q & A
• Updated: Printmaking and Stamping
• Updated: Crafty Recipes
• Updated: Creative Gift Wrapping Paper Ideas
• Updated: Puzzling ARTifacts
• Updated: Art You Can Eat!
• Updated: Nurturing Play Spurs Creative Imagination
• Updated: Kid's Journaling Ideas
• Updated: Jon Burkhardt Child Art Sampler
• Updated: Child Art Inspirational Gallery Websources
• Updated: Wild World of Watercolor
• Updated: Seeing Through Art-O-Vision
• Updated: Poetry that POPS!!!
• Updated: Polishing Your Poems
• Updated: A Poetry Primer
• Updated: Have You Seen this Missing Persona?
• Updated: Poetry & Art in Creative Motion!
• Updated: Little Things Can Stop Creativity
• Updated: Zap Out of the Blue
• Updated: 32 Traits of Creative People
• Updated: Why Does Creativity Seem So Hard?
• Updated: If You Knew You Couldn't Fail...
• Updated: When the Muse Needs a Vacation
• Updated: How NOT to be Creative
• Updated: The Courage of Public Creativity

Defining Creativity (Creativity 101 Excerpt)

June 2009

• June 15, 2009 NewZine: Piccalilli
• Creativity-Portal.com Book Citing Sightings
• Interview with Author, Artist, and Photographer Kristi Tencarre [2]
• Inspiring Success Story: Whimsical Curiosities
• Simple Aging Techniques for Mixed Media & Collage [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
• Overview of Creativity 101 by James C. Kaufman
• 365 Pictures: October Collaborator Credits
• Defining Creativity (Creativity 101 Excerpt)
• Expectations Keep You Stuck
• The Transformative Power of Visualization
• 365 Pictures: September Collaborator Credits

Violette's 'Journal Bliss' Excerpts:
Doodling & Symbolic Stories

• June 1, 2009 NewZine: Mastery through Repetition
• Creativity Explored: Enhancement through Repetition
• Playing with Paint: Let’s Get Messy!
• Using Photography to Inspire Writing 10 [2]
• Riding Lessons for Artists V: How Do We Learn and From Whom?
• Planting the Small Seeds of Creativity
• The Magical Flow Approach to Creativity
• Why Fiction Now? Part II

Backtrack the rest of What's New at the Creativity Portal in 2009 and beyond through our monthly Newsletter Archives.