Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Three reasons why people are motivated to be creative:
1, The need for novel, varied, and complex stimulation.
2. The need to communicate ideas and value
3.The need to solve problems.
In order to be creative, you need to be able to view things in new ways or from a different perspective. Among other things, you need to be able to generate new possibilities or new alternatives. Tests of creativity measure not only the number of alternatives that people can generate but the uniqueness of those alternatives. The ability to generate alternatives or to see things uniquely does not occur by chance; it is linked to other, more fundamental qualities of thinking, such as flexibility, tolerance of ambiguity or unpredictability, and the enjoyment of things heretofore unknown.
Creative people feel the need to create and are thrilled by new ideas.
Over the years I always needed to be making thing, sewing, knitting, crocheting, and needlepoint. Nothing satisfied me for any length of time until I tried to paint. Immediately I was hooked! The possibilities were endless and I was stimulated by the need to get more skillful. Someone gave me a box of pastels that they found while cleaning out a closet. They suited my sense of color and light touch and I was in love!
Three reasons why people are motivated to be creative:
1, The need for novel, varied, and complex stimulation.
1, The need for novel, varied, and complex stimulation.
2. The need to communicate ideas and value
In order to be creative, you need to be able to view things in new ways or from a different perspective. Among other things, you need to be able to generate new possibilities or new alternatives. Tests of creativity measure not only the number of alternatives that people can generate but the uniqueness of those alternatives. The ability to generate alternatives or to see things uniquely does not occur by chance; it is linked to other, more fundamental qualities of thinking, such as flexibility, tolerance of ambiguity or unpredictability, and the enjoyment of things heretofore unknown.
3.The need to solve problems.
In order to be creative, you need to be able to view things in new ways or from a different perspective. Among other things, you need to be able to generate new possibilities or new alternatives. Tests of creativity measure not only the number of alternatives that people can generate but the uniqueness of those alternatives. The ability to generate alternatives or to see things uniquely does not occur by chance; it is linked to other, more fundamental qualities of thinking, such as flexibility, tolerance of ambiguity or unpredictability, and the enjoyment of things heretofore unknown.
Creative people feel the need to create and are thrilled by new ideas.
Over the years I always needed to be making thing, sewing, knitting, crocheting, and needlepoint. Nothing satisfied me for any length of time until I tried to paint. Immediately I was hooked! The possibilities were endless and I was stimulated by the need to get more skillful. Someone gave me a box of pastels that they found while cleaning out a closet. They suited my sense of color and light touch and I was in love!
These are some of my most creative work.
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| Up The Yellow Brick Road 18x24 pastel NFS
This might be my favorite
painting of my own work. Sadly I sold it and I miss it. Friends
tell me, "Just paint it again!" That is easier said than
done. I was in a totally creative mood, it was painted in a period of about an hour
and I never changed a stroke or color. My totally creative moods don't happen often enough but when they do occur wonderful things
happen. When the rest of the paintings on this post were painted when I was in
the same kind of mood.
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| Castles in The Sky Pastel 18x24 $650 I have always been a daydreamer who loved fairytales. I guess that is what castles in the sky are, fairy tales. I loved stories about princesses and princes. Guess I was a hopeless Romantic. Some people might call them "pipe dreams." I painted this while listening Rachmaninoff's Piano Concertos. Such heavenly music! It really does take me away. |
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| Symphony to an Unruly Child 12x18 pastel I am a great fan of the famous woman abstract expressionistJoan Mitchell, of the 50's school of Abstract Expressionists, which included such famous artists, as Jackson Pollack, Franz Kline, and Willem DeKooning to name just a few. I always felt a kinship with Joan partly because she was a woman competing in a man's world but also because she painted with music as I do. I love her the passion and excitement she conveys in her work. The use of strong color that captures the eye and doesn't let go. I painted this abstract piece while listening to Rachmaninov. My little grandson, Luke, who was a very active toddler at the I was painting this was my muse for the energy I generated. At that time, he like nothing better than slouching paint around on paper with anything he could get his hands on. Being very headstrong, there was no stopping him. I loved watching him as long as I didn't have to clean up after him. I was thrilled when this pastel was juried into the Pastel Society of America's 40th Annual Exhibition, "Enduring Brilliance," at the National Art Club in New York. What a tremendous honor! |
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