The Importance of Creativity

Creativity is important.  It is the conclusion I came into.  I never gave much thought into that topic.  With the trigger of a few people, I started to think a bit more deeply about it.  A person told me that people like plumbers had to be creative to work in tight spaces.  Trades like that linked to creativity?  Why people don't think about it?  Is it that basic that people don't bother about that part?  It should be added in what we think about those useful and down to earth technical trades.

People who do speeches too need creativity.  They needed it for their text.  They also needed some creative bounciness.  They may be inspired by their speeches and come on with an iconic phrase.  That makes me think of the Muses.  They were a group of young woman with each her area of expertise.  They inspire and it is nice when the inspiration comes out of nowhere, as if a divine wind or divine thought softly blow in my mind.

Creativity should be left to it's own development.  It should not be denied or push down into the unconscious.  It can be useful in so many way.  It can be therapeuthic, making the mind feel better.  It can be useful in work related field because it can be useful in problem solving.  Can also be useful for those who have to convice people to not do something regretful.  It is always nice to be able to think outside the box.

One drawing, 2 personal touch

It is quite fun to see what can be done with the same drawing.  I used similar colours for the bees but on one, I filled the body and not on the other.  The differences are better seen below.

On one, the flowers are filled and not on the other.  The contour is not the same colour, to differenciate them.  One is pink and the other is green.  The pink contoured one is the first I made.  I didn't thought I would do two little bags with bees and hearts.  The second one was easier and a little bit faster than the first one to make.  I recently made one with an owl on a branch.  I have other ones with othre drawings on it.  I am not in an hurry to do those.

I would like to do something new or a bigger project.  I also would like to try cross stitches.  I just have to find small beginner projects.  Let see if I will like it.

Head Gear

The baseball cap above had took a long time to make, longer than I thought.  I wanted to do some gemstone.  Not totally what I expected but it is close enough.  Not too bad for a first time.  If I make another one, there is a few things that I would do differently.  I would do the exterior lines before filling in.  I didn't do that the first time because I didn't really thought of it.

Below, I tried to do two arrowhead.  At first, I wanted to do just one.  I didn't do the drawing at the right place, so I had enough room for a second one.  Quickly looking at it, it look like the play buttom.  Not the first time I will get laugh at with a design.  Once, I made a ring.  On it, I made an wolf that finnally look more like a polar bear with a tail.

I would not consider these failure.  It was the firt time that I made those.  It was closed to what I was thinking.  It is nice to get the results close to what I had in mind.  Of course, I learned a few things that I won't repeat in a next try.  For sure, doing the contour is a very good idea.  It is easier to fill in after.   It is easier too to have a good drawing to start with too.  I am tempted to do other projects like this.  I would get better with more practice.  It is encouraging when there is room in getting better.

It been a while since the last fail

I don't know if I am in a lucky crafter period but it had been a while since the last fail.  I just had one and it was an experiment.  I took some soaps and put them in water, thinking it would become good liquid soap.  Well, here is the result and it is not what I exactly expected:

 As seen about, it seems to start well.  It look good from the exterior.  It change a bit when it is stirred as seen below.  It is a bit slimey and there are still some chunk of soap.

I now think to put the stick blender there.  I have a stick blender reserved for soap making, so, no disastrous result with that.  I also think to look at the internet, to see if I had done that properly and if there are ways to recuperate the soap.  Don't mind if it stay liquid.

Public Transit

Public transit is great for the creative mind.  I can read, wirte, brainstorm, wool gathering for future brainstorm session, get inspired by what people are wearing.  Inspiration is always welcomed.  It can be a good place to do so.  Just looking at people, it can be turned into chracters.  I don't do drawing but I think that drawing students must always have a sketch book with them.  Personnally, I am always on the look out for jewelry.  I don't want to take them.  Just to see what I like and don't like on others.  It can trigger an better idea.

What I like less is about the place.  A place to sit to write, to take notes, isn't always available.  It is not always easy to take notes while standing.  It still to be worked on to be more creative friendly.  I don't want to infringe on other people personal space while writing and reading.  The other point is that I can't do all sort of crafting,  It is limited.  Beside reading, writing, brainstorming and for inspiration, I haven't done other crafts.  Some are impossible to do in a bus or the subway train.  No plug for woodburning.  I saw some people knitting but I haven't try it for myself.  I use lot of big ball of yarn and it is not easy to bring it with me outside.

So, the public transit is great for introspection, inspiration and brainstorming.  I like using this place for those reasons.

Creative wasteland or living in a creative desert

There are places where there is a proverty and lack of a grocery store.  It is outrageous in itself but it can be apply to the creative field.  For a creative person, a craft store is like a grocery store.  Both are important and are like breathing air.  Both are necessary for a creator.  It is a question of keeping a balance between basic survival and creating.  Creating is therapeutic.  The need of creating can become an unescapable urge.

So, I live in a creative wasteland.  There is no close craft store.  No real pieces of art around me.  I don't count the ugly wheel nearby.  It is more a hindrance.  I talk against it in the past and I won't change my mind about it.  It is a question of time before an ill advised person goes play in it for ending it's own life.  More playfully, I wonder if it will go Indiana Jones in free styling.

I think there is a few organisms that have some kind of creative programs.  It isn't well know or well advertised.  I don't think I know them all, if I know it.  I know that one in particuliar isn't attacting to me by the way it work.  It is not something I search for.  What I want is simple: a craft store that is nearer and a place where I could go to sit down and do the crafting.  I need a block of time to sit down and do something creative.  I don't ask much.  If I can learn something new is better.   No string attached.

Eat and crafting must be a right.  A right to do it or not, as we all please.

An original way of getting an idea

Most of my most promising and brillant ideas comes from the shower or dreams.  I am used to get ideas that way and it is fine with me.  I thought it was the two best ways to find ideas.  The rest was marginal ways to get ideas.  I was wrong.  The shower and dreams are still valid ways to get ideas.  I just got an experience that got me reevaluate the ways to get ideas

I got my revelation (well, my idea in fact) while I was reading a book.  It is on Atlantis (https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/atlantis-and-other-lost-worlds/9781784040901-item.html?ikwid=Atlantis+and+other+lost+worlds&ikwsec=Books&ikwidx=0)  I really read a lot of various books and this book is no exception.  I do have some issue with the book but I better stay on topic.  So, I read this book on Atlantis.  I came to a passage on crystal technology.  Immediately, I got the idea.

I have a story where I have magic and technology.  Right now, they aren't going well together.  There is a plot line where it will revealed that a technological character had a magical past.  The character had an accident and had to go on the techie side.  Eventually, I want that character to become an techno mage.  The way for her to becone one wasn't really set up.

 After reading the crystal passge, I got my answer and the way to get where I want.  My main character is on the magical side ahd she is in the rare category of an crystal user.  As some gemstones are used in technological device, she will be the bridge between magic and technology.  Both will no longer backfire when coming into contact, well, mainly for the techno mage.  I have to work out the details but the main idea is there.  For sure, my techno mages won't ve totally all powerful.  They will have some limits.

I now want to return to that story.  I have to take some notes but I still work on that story on an unconscious level.  I hope to be able to return on that realm soon...