Observe some work of Jim Dine and a video describing his creative process. Learn how to incorporate your version of that process into everyday life.
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Monthly Archives: March 2010When you think of a lifesaver, you usually would think of a doctor or emergency medical technician. Or a life vest. Or a lifeguard. And you would be right. I have experienced, however, that I can physically live without observing the beauty of the world around me. I know that we can plod through our… show 10 comments 
Oh Carole, I am so glad you like the painting! I really love using the oils.Soon I will have a newly refurbished studio, so I will be able to use oils more frequently. 
Beth, I love your painting! It feels free and full of power of life! Thanks for inspirig me many times with your blogs- you are a great teacher!
@Heather,
@Laura
@Nina Yes it is. How are you creating your story these days? In my experience each day is in process.
@ Liz, Thank you for your astute observations. I always can use a reminder. I like thinking of my day as a painting in progress. It reminds me as well to balance the composition, step back to look from a different perspective, To use the creative process in daily life opens up innumerable possibilities! Your story is heart opening …imagine getting up each morning to a blank canvas. What would be your first action to start the process? 
I think of Lifesavers the candy too! Even more however, grateful for the gift of “becoming” as a part of the definition of creativity. Always a process and always a choice… and “creating” isn’t limited to one concept, thing or result. It is always forming and reforming, it changes or stays the same, and even if you experience it before, you have the freedom and choice to see, feel or think about it in new ways and different forms. Sharing it, whatever “it” is… connects us with more opportunity for the flame to spread slowly or quickly, based on our choices, and even if extinguished (which doesn’t have to be seen negatively) easily reborn by another spark or flame. Connecting definitely a lifesaver… and interestingly enough, it’s like a web, or a think map. – sparking only more creativity! 
When I think of a life saver I think of candy! When I am drowning with the concerns of my life 
Being creative is a Life Saveur! 
What a poignant reflection. I think how often I tell students that each day is a new one that grants them the opportunity to erase “yesterday” and to start afresh. Suprisingly it is a message that I forget to really own for myself. What a wonderous thing it is to think of each day as a canvas that we can paint as we wish. Perhaps I live that part subconsciously. Each day brings with it moments that linger as a brush stroke that punctuates my canvas and make that “work” unique. Thanks, Beth for forcing me to pause, look out of my office window and see the grass in the courtyard, a plane flying overhead, squirrels running the round of the tree and me just stopping for a creative rejuvenation. Just a few thoughts about how important it is to exercise creativity and some exercises to train yourself. show 4 comments
Being present
Being present
Lovely quotes and thoughts. Brings to my mind that I truly am creating everyday in every little way: being present. being real , feeling, sensing, risking — that all of this is living and NOT suffering!. And my favorite: lookin a bunch of rocks and seeing a cathedral. For me this is transformation. Thank you, Beth, for helping start my day with a smile and affirmation that I, too, am creative in my day to day. Enjoy your “everyday creativeness”!
Lovely quotes and thoughts. Brings to my mind that I truly am creating everyday in every little way: being present. being real , feeling, sensing, risking — that all of this is living and NOT suffering!. And my favorite: lookin a bunch of rocks and seeing a cathedral. For me this is transformation. Thank you, Beth, for helping start my day with a smile and affirmation that I, too, am creative in my day to day. Enjoy your “everyday creativeness”! |
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bethvw - It IS funny! Creative decisions are so interwoven into our daily activities that we are not even aware of how much impact those decisions have on our actual life. Each time we make a “mark” or decision we are revealing a part of our inner self!
What have you been working on lately? It was so good to see you at Jerelyn’s Atelier. Let me know when you have another exhibit!
Laurette Kovary - Sort of funny when I think about it – when the kids and adults in my art classes I was instructing would claim they dont or cant make creative choices I remember telling them that of course they make creative choices everyday … “you get dressed dont you?”.
chironarts - Communicating with my children – and all their individual intricacies! LOL