Creative Flow is something that always sounded so amazing to me, but honestly, I didn't feel it for years. Once in a blue moon, I would experience just a bit here and there, but nothing I could generate on a consistent basis. Like many things, it just seemed mysterious and frustrating to me.
Then I heard something about how our brains work, and I ran with the idea until I undeniably detected that I had cracked the code to finding my creative flow. My inability to find it wasn't because I didn't have talent or wasn't a real artist, but instead, I was just starting in a place that left me nowhere to go and nothing to work with.
First, you generate things to work with--this is the 'generative' stage, and you don't judge anything here. This is play, free-flowing, stream of consciousness creating--it's interacting with texture, color, shape without any judgments.
Only then will you naturally move to the 'evaluative' stage and with this organic order of things, you don't get stuck. It still takes practice, mind you, but try it and see if you don't feel the difference.
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Video Chapters:
0:00 Introduction to my creative flow path
1:35 Where I got the idea to apply this approach to my painting process
3:03 Why we get stuck and hung up in the creative process
5:50 Why this framework allows for creative flow
8:28 Where you can learn to layer collage papers and follow this framework
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