My Creativity Blog

Welcome back to My Creativity Blog! My goal in writing this blog is to inspire you! Let me know through comments or email how I’m doing. Thanks for visiting! ~TerryHi! Some of you may have been wondering where I have been for the last month and a half since I have not been updating the [...]

My Creativity Blog will have a new writer contributing to the blog. Russell Cushman will be writing articles about creativity and more once a month. You will be able to read his articles the third Thursday of each month. Russell will post his first article in September. Since today is the third Thursday of the [...]

Hi! I hope your summer is going well. Mine has been interesting. Not doing exactly what I planned, but that is what keeps things interesting. I want to let you all know that I am going to be taking off from writing for My Creativity Blog for a short while. I am not exactly sure [...]

Designing or creating the composition of your art work is very important in order to end up with a pleasing result. I have been painting for many years, and I find myself doing much of the composing as I take photographs of the subject matter I want to paint. Sometimes I do not consciously think about it. Other times I [...]

But God has revealed it to us by his spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
 
 I Corinthians 2:10 NIV
Thought:
I think every person experiences or sees the world in a slightly different manner from the next. Visual artists might be prone to notice color, texture, value, shape, and line. A musician might be more sensitive [...]

Purple Orchid

Last week I wrote an article about using creativity prompts. If you missed the article you can click here to read it. Yesterday I decided to use the prompts I had written about. The prompts I mentioned were:
orchid
color – purple
texture – rough
emotion – childlike
principle of design – movement
I decided I wanted to do a fast and fun [...]

Sometime in your life you will become interested in your family history. It happened to me when I was in my thirties. I did not know much about my father’s family, so I started doing research.
I found a lot of information through the Clayton Genealogical Library in Houston, talking to family members, going to county courthouses, [...]