Developing Creativity

CREATIVITY DEVELOPMENT

Creativity is not a word made just for artists, it’s a word for everyone. You can be creative in your cooking, creative in gardening, in driving, etc.. Creative came from the word Creation which means creating something from nothing, same with when we create art, we create beautiful flowers in the nothingness of canvass or create beautiful pictures of the sunset from the nothingness of a blank film paper. Creativity is within us, all we need to do is to wake it up or tap it.

Things to remember about creativity:

1. Love yourself and your art. Your art is unique to you so be careful with your inner critique. Often times it is us who judge our art. We say that its not nice, I don’t like it, this wont sell or they will make fun of my art. These are the things that we should be careful of, we are not in the right position to judge ourselves when it comes to our art, our inner self is our enemies, this will stop us from making art. The important thing is to just do it.

2. Have time for art. Working too much or being too busy will kill the artist in us. We are all born with talents, we just need to enhance it. Keeping it inside will only kill it, working too hard and not having time for our inner artist is not good for us. Take strolls or do thing another way, try taking a different route going to work or try eating with 2 spoons. Have fun and have time to nurture and nourish the artist within. Set aside 1 day a week to shoot, shoot anything and play!



3. Shoot, shoot, shoot! Don’t shoot to be famous or to get paid. Shoot because you love doing it, shoot because it is your passion, shoot not to be praised. Shoot your subjects from different angles, different exposures, underexposed, overexposed. Just shoot and shoot because the best way to learn is by doing.

4. Have fun. Art is suppose to be fun, don’t we love art classes. Now that we are older art should still be the same. Take time to think before clicking but don’t think too much or you will miss the moment. Also, don’t think too much in how you want to compose a photo, just know the basics by heart and let it flow out from you, but be sure to look around the frame before clicking.