“Creativity Portal is wonderful! Go there and play!”
— Joy Sikorski, Author of How to Draw a Radish
Let the Wire Inspire: Release Your Creative Energy
Book Review by Chris Dunmire
Who knew that bending and twisting strands of wire into works of art could be so much fun?
Wire artists, that’s who. Artists like Alexander Calder (1898-1976), who is credited with developing this new method of sculpting in the 20th century and changing the course of modern art with his three-dimensional wire figures and harmoniously- balanced mobiles. More »
Modern Day Muses
The Shadow Muse — Gifts of Your Dark Side
By Jill Badonsky, M.Ed.
Oh, the energy we use in this society to suppress what we perceive to be our undesirable traits — our negativity, judgmental nature, and our other secret peculiarities and struggles. Often we do not even allow our shadow side into our own consciousness but others can often see it. People who passionately irk us are usually mirroring our own shadows back to us, though ours may surface with a different rendition that we do not recognize.
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Inner Voices of Creativity
The Inner Rebel Rides Again
By Anne Marie Bennett
Taking the Bad with the Good
By Eric Maisel
In order to create, we must take the bad with the good. You are bound to write many bad paragraphs along with the good ones.
Close your eyes and imagine yourself sitting next to your Creative Inner Child. What does she look like? What is she asking you for right now? If you’ve been denying her some expression of creativity for a while, can you get in touch with that Rebellious Inner Child voice that also lives inside of you? What does your Rebellious Child do to act out his anger at you when he’s not allowed to express his abundant creativity? Find pictures in magazines that give image to your own inner Creative Child as well as your own inner Rebellious Child. Make SoulCollage® cards for both. More »
Your Creative Life
Creative Careers Interview with Lynda Lehmann
By Molly Anderson-Childers
Listen in as Lynda answers questions geared towards artists who are finding their own creative niche and just starting to put their work "out there."
Nurture Your Creativity: Collage Your Fragments
By Chris Dunmire
Our lives are just like collages, and collages within collages composed of the unlimited elements of living: collected experiences, faded memories, shredded beliefs, found knowledge, bitter lessons, haphazardly torn bits, and precisely cut pieces.
Is Ghostwriting a Good Way to Make a Living?
By David Duggins
Q. I've heard that ghostwriting is a good way for writers to make a living, but I've also heard that writers who “ghost” books don't get recognition for their work.The Power of Words
By Lisa Collazo
Words can stimulate intense emotion, thought and creative ideas for the writer to form into their very own work in progress.
The Feelings of Change
By Susan Ann Darley
Emotions are powerful agents for change. Your feeling state at any given moment is providing you with valuable information.
