Creating Art

How Well are You Maintaining Your 'Creative Home'?
Taking care of ourselves, doing all we can to maintain our creative environments and abilities, is often the key to greater creativity. This means enabling you to increase creativity in terms of quality as well quantity.
Much like an old run-down house with poor central heating, rattling windows and a leaky roof, if you don't take care of yourself creatively -- and look after your Creative Home -- then slowly and steadily your creative energy will be wasted and you'll be frustrated and struggling to produce the kind of work you want to.
So here are five of the potential danger areas where your creative energy may be trickling, or gushing, away from your Creative Home, and how to combat them:
How Well are You Maintaining Your 'Creative Home'?

Candle Making Basics
In the light of heightened appreciation of candles, it seems as good a time as any to help people come full circle ... back to the time when folks made their own candles in their kitchens. My intentions for writing these articles is to provide in a clear and inviting manner, all the information needed for you to make a variety of inviting, aroma filled candles.
Candle Making Basics
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Soul Of Artist, Career Of Accountant
"I have always wanted to be an artist, but somehow I ended up as an accountant. My job is okay but I am feeling increasingly frustrated because I never developed my talents. Where do I begin?" Right here -- seven tips to get started.
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Preserving Thanksgiving Memories for Scrapbooking

Last year our family tried out a new way to preserve Thanksgiving memories, and the result was truly a treasured keepsake.
A day or two before Thanksgiving, my daughter and I used a turkey rubber stamp to make place cards for all of our family members. We colored the place cards with colored pencils and wrote people's names on them with a metallic gold pen.
Preserving Thanksgiving Memories for Scrapbooking
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10 Ways to Boost Your Creative Power
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Creative Authenticity: 16 Principles to Clarify and Deepen Your Artistic Vision
By
Ian Roberts
No matter what line of work you're in, or what you do in your free time, we all need to rely on creative solutions. Have you ever been in a creative void- the kind of slump you can't get out of, like writer's block? Ever just stare at a blank canvas, word processor, desktop, or work space with a seemingly hollow skull?
Of course you have. It happens to all of us. You may be an artist stumped for ideas for paintings, illustrations, or drawings. Perhaps you're a designer tired of churning out the same old things with your clients sharing the same sentiments. You could be a freelance [fill in the blank] and need to really knock 'em dead with some fresh ideas. Maybe you're like me and you just need to spice things up and are looking to increase your creative output.
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Zen Gardening ... Key Elements
There are two main elements to creating the perfect zen garden. Of which are rocks and sand. The rocks represent mountains and grounding, while the sand helps to represent flowing water. However, this sand shouldn't be just any ordinary beach or garden variety sand. Instead you should purchase enough crushed granite sand to fill your space. Whether it be outside or in. Of which can be found in three different shades white, gray, or beige.
You should try to avoid using light tinted granite sand in sunny areas, as it will produce glare and cut back on the zen-like feeling you wish to achieve. Instead use these lighter colors in shady areas or within your office or other indoor gardens. While you don't need a container for an out-door zen garden, you can find many different platforms for an office-sized zen garden. Whether it be online at websites such as this one, or at a local Feng Shui shop.
Zen Gardening ... Key Elements
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Tips for Taking Great Photos at Night
Night photography can be some of the most dramatic photography you can do -- it can also be one of the harder types of photography to learn. Most photographers have a pile of lousy night photographs hidden away -- they're out of focus, the exposure is wrong, the wrong part of the image is highlighted, etc.
Tips for Taking Great Photos at Night
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Potpourri Recipes
You can vary this as you gain confidence, experimenting with new combinations by crushing a few petals or leaves together in your fingers - at the very least, your hands will smell good!
Potpourri Recipes
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Candle Making Basics
In the light of heightened appreciation of candles, it seems as good a time as any to help people come full circle...back to the time when folks made their own candles in their kitchens. My intentions for writing these articles is to provide in a clear and inviting manner, all the information needed for you to make a variety of inviting, aroma filled candles.
Candle Making Basics
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The Broken String
On Nov. 18, 1995, Itzhak Perlman, the violinist, came on stage to give a concert at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City. If you have ever been to a Perlman concert, you know that getting on stage is no small achievement for him. He was stricken with polio as a child, and so he has braces on both legs and walks with the aid of two crutches.
The Broken String
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Holy Mess, Sacred Chaos
And the Inner Creative Child
Recently I was shopping at my local art store. Now when I go shopping for art supplies I buy LOTS of stuff because I have the excuse that I am buying all these great things for my students and classes. It's actually one of the best parts about being a creativity teacher.
So this one day I was pushing my shopping cart around and it was practically filled to the brim with all kinds of goodies, but mostly tempera paint, which is the kids paint that I use in my workshops.
I was standing in line waiting to check out when for some reason I turned around and saw this adorable little girl, maybe 6 years old, clutching, and I mean white knuckle clutching these two bottles of tempera paint and looking up at me with the most wide eyed, plaintive, almost pleading look. I was actually a little taken aback by the intensity of her gaze and not sure what it meant, because she didn't say anything, she just stared at me.
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Creativity Means Detach From Outcomes
Enjoy the process of creation for its own sake. So, if you want to produce better quality creative material, strive to be more exotelic. Love the work more than what it produces. See, it's REALLY easy to create for the wrong reasons. Money. Fame. Ego. Power. Approval. All are outcomes. Which doesn't mean they're bad things! They just suggest that your creative process is results-based, not process-based.
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