Brainstorming or brainwriting – Fancy words for tools you can use in your everyday creative life.
How do you come up with ideas? With fancy creative life tools and techniques that you can keep in your handbag.
Drawing the end of 2018 with very Merry Christmas
Drawing the end of 2018 with very Merry Christmas Hello Creative QB’s, Has 2018 been a good year for you? Are you ready to farewell this year with a good dose of Christmas cheer? At the start of the year I recall reading somewhere that 2018 would be a year of endings....
Stretching the comfort zone of your creativity
Stretching the comfort zone of your creativity Hello Creative QB’s, How stepping from comfy sand shoes to nine-inch high heels helped me stretch out of my comfort zone and enter a regional art prize. If like me, creativity is starting to feel like an old comfy pair of...
How to make creative U Turns
How to make creative U Turns 10 reasons why YOU think you’re not creative and 10 ways to TURN it around. Have you every thought to yourself, “I want to do something more creative, I just don’t know what that is?”. If this sounds like you, then you are not...
Guilt Free Creativity
Guilt Free Creativity Doing it for the kids! This week, we have escaped in our caravan for the school holidays. Apart from board games, bikes and the beach, it’s up to my kids to make their own fun. I’m taking a few moments to work on some beautiful hand-made products...
Budgeting for Creatives
Budgeting for Creatives Hello Creative QB’s, 2-3 minute read Try this one simple way to help fend off the starving artist syndrome in the pursuit of personal creativity. I don’t know about you, but stepping into my favourite art supply store to buy “just a few things’...
Reconnecting with creativity
Reconnecting with creativity Hello Creative QB’s, 4 minute read Together as sisters we have cried during some very sad times of loss and hardship and cheered each other on during times of celebration. We stuff up and make mistakes all the time and we learn and...
COLOUR ME HAPPY
COLOUR ME HAPPY Hello Creative QB’s, 3 minute read Colour is an extremely powerful tool. Ninety per cent of snap judgements are based on response to colour. We encourage our children to paint rainbows and read picture books splashed with considered palettes. So why as...
Are you a daydream believer?
Who has time for daydreaming? Who has time to waste? Daydreaming gets such a bad wrap, but if you are not daydreaming, you could be missing out on a whole world of new possibilities. Your ability to think creatively, be innovate and bring ideas to fruition hinges on...