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The more I create, the more I can create...
Websites to help fan the flames
- Cre8it!
- Windows of creative opportunity by Jessica Wesolek, a professional multi-media artist and art instructor.
- Creativity Portal
- An imagination inducing sanctuary for artists, writers, crafters, and creativity enthusiasts.
- The Virtual Color Museum
- Color systems, color and culture, and toys!
- Color Scheme Generator
- Generator of color schemes and palettes. Intended for webpage design, but also great for art!
- Tera's Wish
- Tera Leigh's desire is to help make creativity part of everyone's life.
- Artella
- A creative zine and inspiring art community for artists, writers, and creative spirits.
- Judity Reilly's Creativity Page
- Twelve life lessons for creativity.
- gapingvoid: How to be Creative
- Hugh Macleod's 30 tips...plus cartoons!
- CreatingMinds
- Links to principles, tools, articles and quotes about all matters around being creative and using creativity.
"Unfathomable Sea"
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My favorite creativity books
- Art Escapes: Daily Exercises and Inspirations
- By Dory Kanter
Designed for the many artistic people who are motivated, yet find it difficult to fit art into their daily lives. - Celebrate Your Creative Self
- By Mary Todd Beam
Readers are invited to playfully explore various aspects of visual art through a series of imaginative art projects. - The Creative Artist
- By Nita Leland
Teaches you to release the creator within you, encourages hard and constant work as a way to loosen up and discover your skills beyond shape and color. - Creative Composition and Design
- By Pat Dews
This unique book presents solid composition and design instruction with an emphasis on fun and creativity. - The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
- By Twyla Tharp
Tharp not only promotes tried-and-true habits, but also encourages readers to dig deep within themselves and come up with their own answers. - Exploring Color
- By Nita Leland
My very favorite book on color ~ and I have read many! - How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci
- By Michael J Gelb
This book offers "the Seven Da Vincian Principles" for learning how to approach life like a genius. - Living Out Loud
- By Keri Smith
Youthful enthusiasm and playfulness are key to discovering who you are and what you love to do. - The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
- By Betty Edwards
Think you can't draw? Think again! - A Whack on the Side of the Head
- By Roger von Oech
Spurs creative thinking and allows you to look at a problem from a fresh perspective.
Guestbook ~ reader feedback
The place where you can share other resources that you think we all need to know about!
Lenses on creativity
- One Acorn ~ Critical & Creative Thinking
- "Good thinking" is a bit more difficult to come by than one might expect.
- Sketching
- Sketching is a module in visual thinking school, a course designed to help you learn how to think and communicate better using the visual part of your brain.
- The Artist's Way
- The seminal book on creativity, The Artist's Way has helped more than two million people access their creativity and realize their dreams.
- Art Lenses
- Lenses which focus on various art forms! All lenses, all the time :-)
- Creativity According to Roy Blumenthal
- Creativity can be learned, according to Roy, and in his lens he outlines his approach to teaching it!
- What makes us creative at work?
- You do not have to be an artist, performer, musician or film-maker to be creative; though thinking like a creative could help you.
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