About the blog
I am so glad you are here! I am beth vendryes williams, a visual artist. Creativity is a universal and invaluable skill. As an artist, I apply my creativity to paper and canvas. However, developing and training the mind to think outside the proverbial box is as important to the success of the CEO of a Fortune 500 company as it is to an artist. This blog strives to help you discover the potential of your creativity and to harness that potential to enhance your life.
You do not need paint or clay. You need only a desire to develop your creativity.
I explore with you the creative process and thinking tools that work to expand thinking. I am motivated to investigate ways to think more creatively because I have need to change a lot of situations in order to accomplish my goals. And sometimes I realize I need to adapt my goals.
Once you learn to think outside the box you can apply that essential skill wherever and whenever you want!
Bio
I live on Long Island, New York with my supportive husband, who is a scientist and master gardener. Our 3 sons visit for varying periods of time now that they are pursuing their own careers and studies. We also share our home with two very funny golden retrievers.
My journey as an artist began as a child with an irrepressible desire to create. Strands of dried grass were materials to build sculptures and smooth beaches were blank canvases to paint with my hands.
This passion continues to inspire my studies, exhibits and daily studio work. It has also inspired me to teach art to children and adults for 20 years.
What is so fascinating to me, is that the lifelong process of making art has so transformed my way of thinking!
I live with the attitude of an artist. To an artist, everything is a valuable work of art. A mistake, a wayward slip of a pen, is an opportunity to create something new. In my blog, I share my gift of creativity with you. Thus the title," Make art. Transform life." improve your creativity with or without crayons".
Feel free to contact me with interest in creativity and /or my artwork. You can visit my website of work on the link in the navigation bar above.
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beth - @ Nina , Ooh I’m so glad you stopped in! What are you imagining lately?
@Fred I have trouble imagining that. You are doing this all tonight? Let me know how it is working for you. As I wrote this I was thinking about that experiment with the fly in the glass jar. You put plastic wrap over the top opening and after bumping his head enough, the fly doesn’t go near the top any more. After you remove the plastic wrap, he doesn’t understand that he can get out! Sometimes I think that is what we do to ourselves. We are so used to living with a certain set of limitations that we do not see opportunities when they present themselves. let me know how it goes with acting as if…
fred - Hey Beth
Great ideas. At first I thought I would start tomorrow. But how typical that would be of me. I am going to put some of your ideas into action tonight. Thanks!
Fred
Nina - FABULOUS!!!!