The Creative Process-Don't Let your Artist wait too long!

Creative Process (written for CP class June 2009) 

What kind of Artist am I?   

I think that most people have the potential to be creative and its like muscle that needs to be exercised.   For me I believe that being creative is a language that we all have inside and if we did not speak we would create in some form and use this as an expression of the self and  as a communication means. 

Creativity is a universal language.   

Being creative for me is a way of working through problems and reworking them until the need is no longer there or the problem solved.  Creativity can help build many life skills that can be applied in real life such as critical thinking skills, problem solving, cooperation, brainstorming for solutions, engaging and persisting, collaboration, self-esteem.  Creativity helps one with thinking outside of the box and is very important for today’s world.  

Being a single discipline today is  no longer enough for most graduating college students. 

For my creative process I am most inspired by my environment.  I guess you would say that makes me a person who reconstructs.  I like to have a start point as a reference even if it’s as simple as a feeling or a color.  I am a beginning artist who has not played nearly enough to be able to invent things purely on my own.  I am still gathering my bad of skills as an artist.   I use my environment to be my point of departure and that could be just about anything.  I see inspiration everywhere.    

I do a lot of problem solving while driving in my car and often have to pull over to jot things down.  I gather bits and pieces of articles and magazine cut outs to be used in my art at some point and time.  The biggest lesson I have learned about being creative and believe is an important life skill is to engage and persist.   

In art as in much in life, it’s very easy to give up before the lesson is learned.   Staying with your art through persistence always shows growth on the other side.   It’s easy to give up before the lesson is learned.  

I value all the skills that I have learned in my art classes and think that each one has taught me lessons that can translate to real world application.  We each have an inner creative artist who  lives awaiting for the play to begin.

Don't let your Artist wait to long!  Ask yourself, "What Kind of Artist am I"?  We are all artists...we just need to find out what kind to make the process flow.