The linear thought process is dead. Let’s cut stuff up. #surreal #mental #health #creativity #dada #doompatrol
Category: Creative Process
The Importance of Nonsense
Sometimes gathering up a little nonsense does does us all a little good. Seriousness puts nails in your coffin as an artist. Use #morningpages to slip into Wonderland. #art #mental #health
Forest Bathing Without Trees
What to do when you want to relax in a forest, but live in a desert. How can you make shinrin-yoku work for you? #mental #health #ikigai
Are You More Like John or Paul?
Are You More Like John or Paul? Which creative side takes dominance in your artist brain? #beatles #art #mental #health
Use Inktober to Propel Your Creativity
Creating an art prompt a week might seem batty, but Inktober can spur creativity. #inktober2020 #creativity #art
Flip Your Negatives into Positives
Many people think they can’t create art and this negativity shuts them down. Tap into your own skillset to make astounding art. #artlife #creativity
Creating Art: Analog vs Digital
I got my first Mac, a big clunky tan block, back in the early 1980s. Way back then, to copy a file, you had to do a little dane with the floppy discs, swapping them over and over — a digital Hokey Pokey (put your new disc in, pull your new disc out…). So yeah,… Continue reading Creating Art: Analog vs Digital
Shift Your Wishes
I often dream of being a successful writer. But often I ignore the writer part and focus on the successful part. What is it about success that draws us all in? It certainly isn’t the celebrity, at least for me. I’m notoriously shy. If you sit down to talk with me, within moments, I will… Continue reading Shift Your Wishes
Don’t Overseason Your Art
Continuing along the lines of cooking as a metaphor to making art, it’s important not to clutter your creativity with a proliferation of details, platitudes and those little darlings you think you can’t live without. Let me step deeply into this metaphor by talking about an Alton Brown recipe I recently tried (Yes, I’m one… Continue reading Don’t Overseason Your Art
A Recipe for the Creative Process
Below is a metaphorical recipe for going from initial idea to finished concept (any similarity to a real cooking recipe is purely coincidental). My apologies to those non-carnivores out there. Imagine a nice portobello mushroom steak and maybe cauliflower mash. I’m just going with I know how to cook. Tim
