An Introduction to the Creative Process, How Artist Come up with Ideas

” Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.” Ken Robinson

” Imagination is the root of creativity. It is the ability to bring to mind things that aren’t present to ourselves. Creativity is applied imagination. ” Ken Robinson

When I tell people that I’m an artist and art teacher here the most common responses are, ” I can’t draw,”  or ” I don’t have a creative bone in my body.”

I’m here to tell you, you may not have a creative bone, but you do have a creative brain, we all do. Do you daydream? Do you imagine? Do you worry? ( Worrying is just a negative form of imagination, and imaging is creative)

Find out the 4.5 steps to creative thinking, and you just might realize that you’re more creative than you thought.

 

Here you can find one of my favorite tools for helping students to develop more ideas

Here are tips on how to ask better questions