How and why did you begin to be creative?
it began with my kids ,we where poor but I did not want my kids to act like they where poor we kept a clean house and found nice things cheap and always found a way to get around things that cost money ,and at work I always found away to motivate people who did not want to do anything, you have to be creative to motivate the unmotivated
Around 4 or 5. I remember loving finger painting and make believe and cooking. I liked surprising myself and those around me.
I was horrible in math and tried to anything I could to make up for that fact in the fourth grade. My teacher, Miss McCarthy, at the time was excepting creative writing pieces as extra credit work. I started writing poems and stories for her, loved it, and I have been writing ever since.
I was early in my youth very imaginative ! But my first expression was poetry, dark and tortured one ! Then I made a lot of patchwork paper arts. Now I do video live mix and some objects like necklaces and bracelets.
I began to be creative in my 20's. I attended an Interior Design School, completing the residential portion of the course. I was very interested in decorating my first home.
My first attempts to decorative paint were by using stencils. I stenciled many rooms in my second home. Many rooms were done several times. I did not leave things the same for very long. I have slowed down a little the order I have gotten.
I've always been more or less creative. This probably stems from my mother's insistance on problem solving and always finding new and better ways to do things.
I came up with this idea when I started scrapbooking my baby shower cards, while I was pregnant with my first daugther. I still have a large box of greeting cards that I have nothing to do with. My mission is to turn a box of greeting cards - no matter what size - into a presentable memory book that the owner can look back on and cherish.
I saw a friend playing a musical instrument and followed suite after asking my parents if I could do so as well.
It feels right... I cannot explain it.
I was born to it. My parents are creative so I grew up in that environment, nothing was believed to be impossible as long as you had vision. I think of myself as very lucky to have had such a childhood. My grandmother taught me how to knit and crochet at aged 6. My mum how to design, sew, pattern cut and draw/paint and my dad how to use a saw and hammer.
Have Always been creative, from a young age I had a desire to write the things that came into my mind.
We have always been creative people! From the time we were young, we were involved with music, dance, arts and theater.
I used to compete with a friend in "creating" comic books--stories which we illustrated ourselves--of the style of either Flash Gordon or Prince Valiant. In elementary school Grade Six, the same friend and I were putting out the mimeographed school publication. I "wrote" some articles (with lots of help from him and our advising teacher), but was enjoying myself more doing the illustration--scratching the wax off the mimeo paper so the ink could penetrate. In high school I started learning how to "justify" the typewritten columns by counting/skipping spaces. I've been hooked ever since. My gift to my first crush was a bound volume of my first attempts at poetry with my illustrations. In college, poetry had waylaid me from art but I never stopped watching art and artists, and my own writing would always be somehow intertwined with art, graphic design, etc. I wrote professionally--meaning my jobs always had to do with writing. I went into advertising "mid-career" and there, when I got to be a "copy-based" creative director, often intruded into territory of the art directors by dictating my own ideas of the page layout (but not so much). I left advertising and went freelancing, but mainly for writing projects. Now I maintain an improvised, put-together little online poetry-and-art magazine where I edit and design the whole thing on my own, improvising on the tools that I know. I receive good contributed material in terms of poetry, photographs, and some original art from my friends. It's my own little literary and graphic design kingdom.   | | |
Playing make-believe and dress-up games as a child. Those games always seemed more compelling to me.
The 'how' is still yet to be determined into an exact field, but I can tell you the 'why' is part of the essential happiness and meaning of life for me. I couldn't remember a time in my life where creativity as a force of nature hasn't been present. To put a finer point on it, I guess, I'd say how I begin to be creative is to not say 'no' to an idea that comes to me. I participate in a number of different creative outlets, and plan to learn many more, but the important part is that I do not let anything hold me back from trying. I won't know if I'll enjoy it if I don't try, which is part of the 'why'. Why would I begin to be creative, say, by learning a new instrument, or learning to knit (both resolutions for the near future)? I do this because I want to expand my voice of creativity. I guess you can say I have 'many fingers in many different pies!'
My father had told me that I was born a 'suffering artist' because I was never happy with wanting to master 'one craft', but rather find a voice in many different areas. He doesn't chastise me for this; he's rather proud that I excel at a number of different artistic medians. I like to refer to myself as a 'deviant of many talents', because of the many inspirations that I have and how I like to use them together when I create. | | |
As soon as there was more than one option there was no other choice |
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