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Brainstorming or brainwriting – Fancy words for tools you can use in your everyday creative life.
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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. However 2018 rolled for you, there...
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 favourite sandshoes it maybe...
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 alone. If you have...
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...
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’ is enough to send my...
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 grow from our mistakes...
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 we get older do...
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...
‘Hatch Print Show’ Graphic Design Style
America - the land of the brave and the free. It's is a big place. It's place full of big ideas, big cars, big personalities, big people, big food, big teeth and the big apple. I had the great fortunate of returning the USA and visited it's southern heartland of...