My Creativity Blog

Every single child born into this world comes with a set of talents. Some are gifted with more and some with less. Nevertheless, they are all blessed with one talent or the other. There is never an individual born into the world with no talent whatsoever. Every single person has some talent. So the next [...]

Hi! I hope your summer is going well. Mine has been interesting. Not doing exactly what I planned, but that is what keeps things interesting. I want to let you all know that I am going to be taking off from writing for My Creativity Blog for a short while. I am not exactly sure [...]

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 [...]

  But God has revealed it to us by his spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.    I Corinthians 2:10 NIV Thought: I think every person experiences or sees the world in a slightly different manner from the next. Visual artists might be prone to notice color, texture, value, shape, and line. A musician [...]

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 [...]

Sometime in your life you will become interested in your family history. It happened to me when I was in my thirties. I did not know much about my father’s family, so I started doing research. I found a lot of information through the Clayton Genealogical Library in Houston, talking to family members, going to county [...]

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 [...]