Creative process & Art (intersection of tags)
15 Creative process posts • 867 Art posts • 11 in common
- My first sketch at an art museumSketching artwork in person at a museum is more of an experience than I imagined it to be. The enhanced observation, the nervousness. What to sketch? The decision on what to draw. With 5,267 items on display, what would be…
- Tiny snowflakes remind me to carry a macro lensSeeing tiny snowflakes embedded in ice makes me wish I still carried my iPhone macro lens with me. This photo is a bit blurry, but you kinda get the point. The macro lens would have really zoomed in on a…
- Take a wider pano than plannedWhen you are shooting a panoramic with your camera, do you ever wonder when you should stop sweeping across? When I was photographing this scene of the Chicago River, Initially, I was drawn to frozen Chicago River, and how part…
- Where I find my inspiration onlineWhere do you go to find inspiration online? Twitter? Facebook? Instagram? Flickr? Websites? Possibly a combination of some of those? I’m going through all the artwork and artists that I’ve faved the past year. That means re-looking at all my…
- How to worry less by taking more photosYeah! Take more photos! Taking photos makes you more observant of your surroundings. Pausing and considering things around you gives you perspective. Often I can get too wrapped up inside my head about life and worrying. To get outside of…
- How many artworks does it take for a series to become epic?An art series gets epic when there are 100 items in the series. Do you have any art series that has more than 100 photos? I have one. My HDR photos of Chicago is currently up to 190 photos. Let’s…
- Starting creativity: sticky notesCaitlin of wanderlustings.com posted a wonderful list of creative stimulation exercises. One of the things i find that helps me is to simply create. I spend so much time consuming, not enough time creating. I often make excuses for my…
- Encaustic photo tutorialWanna learn how to make encaustic photos? Here I’ll show you how to transfer photos onto wax! Far out! Gesso setup These are 10×15 inch pine boards. And yes, I have lots of storage in my shelf by the window.…
- Why do we photograph our cities?Walking down the corridor in Chicago’s Grand Avenue station, the train starts flying by. One of the windows on the train is totally smashed. The pattern created is incredibly exquisite with beautiful lines emanating out from one spot. I didn’t…
- fuzzy creativityCreative Behavior had an interesting article, “Creativity (unrelated) Edges” here’s some excerpts: [Creativity] is located in the brain supra √´fuzzy√≠ center and we are invited to travel, poke and dwell on its edges. Fuzzy Intangible. Just the name itself makes…
- Creative cyclesSome scientists feel we have 90-minute cycles of creativity. Because it’s impossible to know where in this cycle you are at any given time, you have work at least that length of time—the longer the better—before you hit your creative…
