My Creativity Blog

My husband showed me this video and I just had to share it with my readers. The video is very creative and must have taken a ton of patience to create. Maybe it will inspire some of you to create something as well. Enjoy!

I love to read. Teaching does not give me much spare time to read, so I usually devour as many books as I possibly can during the summer. I read novels, non-fiction, self-help books, health and diet books as well as ”how to” art books; just to name a few. I recently finished a book that I discovered [...]

All good things must come to an end. I hate it when I come to the end of a really good book. So, it is not unusual that I hate the fact that this will be my last article about Janice Elsheimer’s book, The Creative Call.  I hope the series of articles has been as [...]

Welcome back to another article about The Creative Call by Janice Elsheimer. I have written an article every Wednesday as I work my way through the book. If you have been with me from the beginning, you know that we have almost finished. I hope my articles have been helpful to those of you out [...]

Welcome to another article about The Creative Call written by Janice Elsheimer. This week the subject is about making time for your art. I thought about saying I didn’t have time to write this article, but I figured that wouldn’t go over very well. But, I have to admit that sometimes writing for this blog does [...]

Chapter Six of The Creative Call by Janice Elsheimer is full of creative insight and wisdom. As I read the chapter I kept stopping to underline, circle, or highlight passages.  Janice divides the chapter into seven sections with four exercises for the reader to do.  Janice covers issues that we face when we desire a [...]

Hi! Welcome back to my series of articles about The Creative Call written by Janice Elsheimer.  Today we will discuss Chapter Five which is titled, “Breathing In”.  If you missed any articles in the series you can find links at the end of this article. This week I wrote in my journal every morning, did [...]