My Creativity Blog

Flower arrangement is an art that brings beauty to our environment. It can add a touch of class to any room or office space. Although it may seem easy, arranging flowers is a skill that has to be practiced before you can do it right. Adorning your home with flower arrangements can bring harmony to [...]

I love art. I love to draw, paint and sketch. But sometimes no matter how much I love art there are times when I get stumped. I remember one time when I was still in college and our art teacher asked us to paint something. Now I’ve done several paintings. But for some reason I [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

Have you ever messed up a painting putting in a background? I have. I have ruined many paintings putting the background in last after spending hours or days working on the main subject. What do I mean when I say “background”? I  mean the area behind the subject in a still life, a floral, or even [...]

I am are always looking for activities to broaden my horizon, to expand my artistic knowledge. I happened to discover an art supply store in Portland that provides demonstrations on various media for their customers. The best part about the demos is they are free!  You can’t beat that. The name of the store is [...]