Beginning: A Creative Experiment

 My intention is to use this blog as a place to think about creativity and share my progress with myself first and foremost. I value learning curves and I also am curious to see what will be revealed as I look back over the process of diving in to my own creative process. 

I've started this blog with a monthly online course called The Creativity Experiment (link here). This is the brainchild of three women whom I've enjoyed learning from: Jean Wells, Valori Wells, and Kelly Sheets. It is a monthly Insight lesson coupled with a Creative Experiment that is meant to help gently push creative thresholds - especially for people who quilt.

As you read through my postings, you'll notice where I diverge from what the teachers are saying and how I find my own way through the lesson and experiment. I hope more people do that - tailor a lesson to fit what is true for you - instead of simply stepping away from an experiment. Creativity as I've come to know it, encompasses so many different expressions and finding one's own expression is the best feeling ever.

Because these teachers are primarily trying to get people to play, experiment, learn, and trust their own intuition; I found that they offered a warm and comforting place for folks to explore. 

In retrospect, this set of seminars did help me experiment. I have found myself much more able to try new things - small experiments that have led to larger projects. I've learned to revisit my old artistic self; remembered color and design theory; to appreciate ideas, drafts, sketches. Small samples, tracing paper, color studies. Trying. Being amused by learning what I don't know.

I hope to continue using this space to think about artistic expression and creativity. The blog posts are labeled with the order in which the session was offered with reflections following along afterwards. There's ten proper lesson insights and what shall follow - well, we shall see.

JMH Nov 2022