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 [...]

After years of relative obscurity, we have looked up recently and acknowledged that Navasota has evolved into a very respectable arts community. Not only have notable musicians and artists emerged here, but art sells in local galleries pretty well. In fact, one local artist has sold many hundreds of paintings during the worst economy [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
~ George Washington Carver
Thought:
I ran across a bracelet I had been making three years ago. It was stuck in a box with a bunch of jewelry-making supplies, a sort of lost treasure. I remember working on [...]

All good things must come to an end. I hate it when I come to the end of a really good book. So, it is not unusual that I hate the fact that this will be my last article about Janice Elsheimer’s book, The Creative Call.  I hope the series of articles has been as [...]