Visualizer: Stare to Create

 

This is a visualizer. Practice your vision, provoke your creativity, delight your senses by staring at this with clear, fresh eyes. Let the visualizer see you as you see it.

Relax. Breathe. Take your time in allowing a story to form. 

The image will speak to you when you take your time, and it may tell a different story each time you look at it. 

I'll share many of these visualizers, frozen moments in time in a universe that never freezes that honors only constant motion. Artists sometimes (you, and I) take that motion and freeze it long enough to glean some meaning, some spark of wonder, some fabulous fable of life.

-- doug smith

Art At Its Best

Art at its best creates possibilities previously undiscovered.

-- doug smith

Creative Assignment

Assignment:

Create a work of art, in any medium (such as an acting scene, a song, a collage, a drawing, a poem -- you get the idea) based on this quote:

The only limits to love are the limits we impose from fear.

-- doug smith

Unbreakable?

Some people fear the creative impulse because it might produce work that breaks something. 

I think that we can relax on that.

Creativity never breaks anything. Breaking creativity breaks everything.

-- doug smith 

Not the same

 

"Madness likes to call itself creative, but that doesn't mean that it is."

-- doug smith

OPTIONAL ACTIVITY:

1. Draw a picture. Keep drawing until you fill the page, no matter what develops.

2. Say something about it in one sentence.

Writing Prompt: Alphabet Soup (Collage)

 

Writing prompt: write a story using alphabet soup.

Alphabet Soup Story - collage by douglas brent smith

Spontaneous Drawing

Do you still doodle?

You can probably remember a time in your life when you doodled a lot. Sometimes we draw less as we get older. It happens, but it doesn't HAVE to happen. We can keep drawing. We can keep sketching. And, when we do it fuels our creativity.

Try bringing that same spirit of improvisation to some random, spontaneous drawing. it doesn't have to be good (although it might be!) -- it just has to flow.

This is sa drawing I made in 1976. I'm fairly certain, although that was a long time ago, that I drew it in one sitting, without doing anything else. 

Remember, it doesn't need to be great art to help your creativity. 

-- doug smith

 

Drawing: Street Scene Purple

 

Drawing: Street Scene Purple, by douglas brent smith

from Journal #7, The Eclectic Trance Dance, 1974