It may seem like I’ve strayed off here but this is a continuation of several glances at the presupposition that some of us have the creative spark and some of us don’t. I’ll be approaching the angle of “I’m not high enough to be creative” in a tip-toe fashion. Can you blame me? This could… Continue reading
In my last post I began scanning the popular belief that we have to have a certain badge of “crazy” to be creative (“crazy” as in the “tortured/suffering artist” image). I’ve already tried to lay out evidence to acknowledge the prominence of creative expression in individuals who embrace a vast spectrum of their experience that… Continue reading
00II of potential hindrances to our creative development still continuing… Several months ago, I had an 11 year old student who declared, “I’m not crazy enough to be an artist.” He admitted that this standpoint came from his knowledge of Vincent van Gogh and, specifically, the artist’s ‘ear incident’ which he understood as: “He cut his ear off when he went… Continue reading
00II of potential hindrances to our creative development continued… Was anyone in your family, immediate or extended, ever bestowed the title of “The Creative One”? Was that person you, or do you have the distinct recall that it was not you? In my last article, I brought up some scientific regard for the presence or lack of a creative spark…. Continue reading
Chapter 2 of potential hindrances to our creative development **00II: Some of us have the creative spark and some of us don’t** Number 2 on the list of assumptions that may be dimming our creative power runs along the same thread as chapter 1; it follows the common perception that creativity is a hardwired entity. A variety of sub-assumptions come up… Continue reading
Here’s a bit of a breakdown for the last 3 articles concerning the potential limiting factors of the presumption that 00I: The best artists are those who can draw/paint/make something accurately. Believing in this could be a hang-up if: judgement and expectation tackle you before you even begin you will not consider any creative endeavour without… Continue reading
When copy work makes us come alive (that is to say that no matter what anyone else thinks, we love and are filled with vitality when we reproduce an image or subject), where is the essence of creativity in that? Even for those who are initially enamoured by the act of making a realistic duplicate,… Continue reading
00I of potential hindrances to our creative development continued… …I was just saying how the pursuit of accurate imagery reproduction as a path to creative process could lead to an expectation and judgement snare. Our fascination with the ability to make things that look real is linked with a conditioned desire for clearcut judgement and expectation. Even a 4… Continue reading
Chapter 1 of potential hindrances to our creative development *00I: The best artists are those who can draw/paint/make something accurately.* Remember back in elementary school (and junior high, high school, even now maybe?) how the best artists/creative geniuses in the class were considered to be the students who could draw/make a thing that looked most accurately like the… Continue reading
Okay, so as I’ve been saying, it seems to me that learning our individual creative process is more about unlearning. This can be super tricky. I used to own a copy of Bruce Lee: Artist of life (I’m a forgetful loaner) and this acted as a bit of a guidebook back when I was developing my… Continue reading