The second step in the creative process is to imagine the details.
Using your imagination is like playing in a sandbox. Like castles in the sand, you can make whatever you want.
In your imagination you can be whoever and wherever you want to be, and you can do whatever you want to do…
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It all begins with a dream...
Dreaming is the first step in the creative process.
'To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream.' ~ Hans Selye
Dreaming opens your mind to possibilities...
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I’ve always been creative. It’s just who I am.
But there was a time in my life when I wasn’t allowing myself to express it.
I shut it down.
I blocked it.
I stopped the flow from moving through me, out onto canvas and into the world.
And then one day I bravely signed myself up for a class to start painting again...
Read MoreTrust.
This is what I’m thinking about as I begin my first few pencil lines on canvas...
Trust in my dreams, trust in my vision, trust in myself... Trust in the known and the unknown.
It’s just like having a baby. When the baby is finally born and you meet him or her for the first time you say, “Oh hello! Yes of course it’s you!”...
Read MoreSummer is... love, beauty, and deepening into your essence
What is your essence? Your essence is the vibration of your soul. When you peel away the layers of life, you discover your True Self, beyond the roles you play in physical existence...
Read MoreI learn a lot from painting pictures.
I've learned that life is just like painting. Well, after all, life itself is a creative process...
Sometimes I leave a painting for too long and it loses my interest. And like a neglected dream it is in danger of never becoming fully realized in this world...
Read MoreDaisy goes dancing...
Read MoreDaisy was not content to be just another pretty wallflower. She always sensed there was more to life.
Oh, she was happy and grateful to be her bold, beautiful self, but she was restless...
Daisy wanted to travel.
Read MoreCreating a life and work I love takes time. It is a journey...
And along the way I've discovered there is a cycle to the creative process... A never-ending cycle of becoming, blossoming, creating and transforming... Everything that is created in this world moves through these seasons... cycling continuously through life, death and re-birth.
And so I created a quiz!
Read MoreEverything in nature expresses itself in it’s own unique way. Flowers, plants, trees, animals... they don’t try to be something, they just are. And by being who they are, and doing what they are meant to do, they naturally serve other plants and animals synergistically as part of the eco-system.
So I ask myself ~ Am I living my destiny?..
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