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101 Tips on How to Become More Creative from Michael Michalko

Here's another source on the topic of Creativity. Check out this post written by creativity expert, Michael Michalko - 101 Tips on How to Become More Creative. These ideas are tips to help you change your usual mental thinking patterns. Here are a few of the ideas that I especially liked:

• Give yourself an idea quota of 40 ideas
• Imagine your idea and its opposite existing simultaneously.
• Keep a written record of all your ideas. Review them weekly. Can you cross-fertilize your ideas?
•  List 20 ideas or thoughts into two columns of 10. Randomly connect ideas from column 1 to column 2. Combine the ideas to see what you get.

Choose a tip from Michalko's list and put it into action today.

For insightful articles on Creativity, visit Michael Michalko's Web site, Creativity Thinking. There you will find creativity exercises, articles, techniques and more.

Improve Your Creativity

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Via Fashionarium, I discovered this article on Six Ways to Improve Your Creativity written by Tony Buzan. Tony is the inventor of the revolutionary mind mapping technique.

Monochromatic Portrait Painting

This is a monochromatic painting that I created before doing the Demo Painting. I may go back and work on her eyes a bit to give her a softer look.

I used the techniques that I recently learned about in Misty Mawn's Workshop at Art & Soul.

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Demo of a Monochromatic Portrait Painting

Demo of a Monochromatic Portrait Painting

Our project for Day Nine of the 30 Marketing Ideas in 30 Days was to pull out a camera and take a few Demo Photographs while we were working on our next painting.

Here is the sequence of steps that I took to paint this monochromatic portrait. Please ignore the numbers on the photos. I worked too quickly and messed up on the numbering system. (There actually is no #4 photograph).

 

This was actually a fun exercise. I encourage you to try it too.

Check Out the Art Journalist Site

Image from ArtJournalist site

Today, I discovered this information-rich site called ArtJournalist (Exploring Art Journaling) that is hosted by Chelle Stein.

There's a lot to explore here: Art Journal Techniques, Art Journal Prompts, The Official (In)Complete List of Art Journal Supplies, When You Hate Your Handwriting - and much more. Take some time to check it out and then get started on your Art Journaling.

BTW, Happy Mother's Day To All, including those moms of fur babies. That includes me.