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Ways to Get Your Creativity Unstuck5
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Getting your creativity unstack can be difficult. Every now and then even the most creative minds experience the creative
block. Danielle Krysa, a Vancouver-based artist conducted 50 interviews with creatives from all over the world to discover
the simple and often unexpected ways to unlock your creative flow. We have selected 5 that appeal to us the most and that
anyone can do just to have that more creative approach at work or at home.
5 Unexpected Ways To Get Your Creativity Unstuck
Draw One Object In Many Ways
#1 Pick an interesting object and, in one sitting, draw/paint/represent it in a minimum of a hundred completely
different ways. Take ‘ring’. It can be a wedding ring, a sun, the moon, the ring
around Saturn, it can be an umbrella. Just use your imagination.
Catalog Your Medicine Cabinet
#2 No, don’t write things down! Just make a catalog that uses all possible forms. Draw it,
paint it, sing it, sculpt it, photograph, or collage everything you have, and then make a poster or small book about the objects. It can be also you given kitchen unit or a fridge. Just
don’t keep it open for too long.
Use A Cropping Tool To Find New Compositions#3 Take any picture you like – it can be yours or
not – and use crop tool (google plus, Facebook, Instagram or many other tools
allow this) and crop it to create a totally unexpected composition. Do not be afraid to
break the rules. My favourite recent cropping is cropping selfies so that they become…
unselfies.
Give Any Given Object A New Life
#4 I really love this one – you just take any simple object (like my favourite paperclip) and put it on a plain paper. Look at it and start drawing around it. You will see how easily this object
will become a trumpet, tank or anything your vivid imagination creates. Remember – no
boundaries, no stress. And please do not tell me, you cannot draw! YOU CAN!
Get Bored! Like Really Bored!
#5Most parents would agree that when their kids get bored, they get… creative. Sometimes to
creative. The truth is that sometimes our mind needs to get bored to start wandering
around looking for ways to play and fool around. It’s a good idea to literally get rid of all stimuli and relax your body and mind. Try
to do nothing. It is not that simple!
Those were just a few ideas on how to get your creativity unstuck. The more you play around, the better. and
remember never ever to think that what you do to unstuck your creativity is stupid. It is not! It sometimes is worth to let
down your guard and be a child again.
5 Unexpected Ways To Get Your Creativity Unstuck
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