Course 1C - Finding your Inner Artist

thanks so much for joining me again on now.

This is going to be day the third module of

my creativity course.

The first session we talked about how to just embrace

the creative process.

Then we talked about how to create beautiful things on

a budget.

And today we're just going to talk about finding that

inner artist.

Now, there are many different ways to be creative and

have fun.

And a lot of those are just, you can find

in your day to day life.

Um, you can, we one of the things is you

just want to find the medium or one of the

mediums that you enjoy working with the most.

There's really, there's a lot of inexpensive ones that you

can find to experiment with and if you can find

it in an expensive way than if you try it

and you don't love it, then just don't be discouraged.

Try another medium.

And there's some different ways that you can play around

with creativity every day.

And so there are an endless list.

These there's different ideas, like I know lots of people

really like to be creative with makeup, that definitely is

an art form.

People like to be creative with cooking or even just

the display of how to cook things.

Some people like to, So, and that can be a

creative art form home decor and just decorating.

One of my personal favorites is resin.

It's super fun paint pouring can be done just with

leftover paint from when you painted your house inside outside

whatever or leftover paint that other people have, you can

do that really inexpensively.

Um would signs and you can always up cycle to

make some different kinds of wood signs and um cricket

is one of another one of my favorites and if

you don't know what a cricket is, make sure that

you go online and check it out.

Um and you can find those um much less expensive

if you buy them from like a facebook, buy and

sell group and buy a used one to play around

with. That's how I got into it.

Um away for is just a different type of paint

poor, You can research that.

It's really inexpensive to do alcohol, ink is a really

fun creative uh thing to try as well as the

sake, it's actually their Ukrainian easter eggs and there's a,

there's a bit of a trick to them, so you

might have to have somebody show you or just make

sure that you research that really well before you try

it. Uh one of the ways that I was creative

before I got into doing it is like my side

gig was Jack lanterns is every Halloween.

Halloween was kind of like uh my holiday, which seems

weird, but it was kind of an excuse just to

put creativity into my everyday life.

So doing elaborate, Jack lanterns was always really fun for

me. You can take your existing furniture and re finish

it. Uh some people use gardening as uh for sure.

That can be a creative outlet or um decorating course,

painting, photography.

Um Ivan would take the creative stuff that I do

at work, like presentations and stuff and even just you

can see by my uh Prezi stuff.

That's another way that I like to um use as

a creative outlet.

Another one that I try to actually recently, which was

super fun was wire trees or just wire art and

some people can find, you can find just left over

where that people don't want anymore and people will strip

them and actually use that as raw materials instead of

having to quote and purchase wire.

But you can also get an expensive wire on amazon.

Uh some people use landscaping or bird houses, you can

find really inexpensively or some, there's that you can build

yourself. Um I've actually used concrete for some different cool

projects. It's pretty inexpensive to buy.

We made some concrete leaves, that was pretty fun and

I'm not sure what my next one that came up

here was.

Oh and oil paintings or water colors, lots of different

types. So definitely there's no shortage and that's like only

I tip of the iceberg of different ways that you

can be creative.

So I'm going to tell you here just a little

bit about my journey in creativity and definitely that there

were some major failures as I went through the process

in order to figure out you know who I was

as an artist.

So before I actually started teaching art, I would take

opportunities to be creative just throughout my everyday life, I'll

just show you some pictures.

I would just do face painting for my kid's birthday

parties and some of them would turn out really good

and it was cute and fun or like, you know,

fancy birthday cakes when they had a partier.

This was invitation that I designed for a birthday party.

This was some Ukrainian easter eggs that Kawasaki I was

talking about and that was a way to just get

together with friends as well.

Um, here's one of our Jack O Lantern parties and

then this is some of the Halloween costumes that I

would make up for the kids and I would even,

you know, decorate the house really elaborately for Halloween.

I don't do that anymore as much.

But yeah, we had some pretty awesome results.

However, we also had some uh, major failures throughout the

years as well.

This is some of the parties in one of the

photography. I did photography for a little while.

So, um, yeah, little tip for you if you're doing

face paint, don't do it on a tired, really young

child with a lot of face paint on their face,

maybe just do like a little thing on their arm

or on their hands somewhere.

Yeah, so that was a learning experience for me.

Uh, so, one thing that I have learned is that

definitely you have to have patience.

It's a virtue that I am constantly working on.

But I definitely have learned through the years.

And I've mentioned research a few times throughout my course.

But it is really important to learn from other people's

mistakes and follow the instructions that people give.

Who have more experience.

I'll just give you one example.

Like there was uh one year, I wanted to make

a nice birthday cake for one of my kids and

the instructions said to wait until the cake was cool

before decorating it.

However, um, I for whatever reason didn't think that was

a necessary step.

So for those of you who don't know, spoiler alert

that is an important step and I iced and decorated

the cake and it was still warm and the icing

was melting and the final result did not end up

anything close to what I envisioned.

This isn't the actual picture of the cake that I

made, but I don't actually for some reason didn't take

a picture of that cake.

But the next time that I had to decorate a

cake, I definitely made sure to follow the directions as

they were outlined and it turned out much nicer.

This is actually one that I found some cake decorating

parts like the little towers.

There are plastic and I was able to borrow those

from a friend and they turned out really good.

And then there was another one that I tried for

my son's birthday.

So uh definitely lessons that I learned through that was

do your research and listen to the lessons that other

people have um to teach you from their mistakes.

So yeah I've tried many many things and I've made

many many mistakes but I've yeah I've just learned from

them and found the passion that I have for art

within. And I think I've made some pretty cool stuff

through the years.

So this is just to explain to you that you

don't especially need to label yourself as creative or artistic

in order to try something new.

Just try it and make sure that you're in the

right mindset.

Like we talked about in the first module there and

just to relax and enjoy that process without worrying about

the outcome.

And whether or not you make whatever you make turns

out the way that you intended or imagine as long

as you can enjoy and relax that process then you've

already won.

And that being said if you want things to turn

out closer to how you intend them to be then

just yeah do that research and listen to what they

say. Two.

So as you go through the year just uh look

for opportunities in your everyday life to find excuses to

explore creativity.

Maybe you see a sign that you like at a

store but you can't afford it.

Just take a picture of it and then research how

to make one like it more often than not.

You can make something similar or sometimes even better for

much less money and you can enjoy the process of

researching and finding the supplies and making it and then

what do you really have to lose?

So I am gonna challenge you again to try this.

Make a list of this time, make a list of

three creative projects that you want to try and then

after you've kind of got your top three, just narrow

it down to one and then once you've got that

one thing that you want to try again and hopefully

that you've tried a couple of different things throughout this

course and this can maybe you already have some ideas.

And then again, I do encourage you to enlist your

friends again.

Uh huh create with you.

And same as last time I want you to set

a budget and really make sure that you do your

research again, Youtube, Pinterest websites, google and then make your

list of supplies and creatively collect those.

And then before you start make sure that you check

your mindset, go back to that mantra that you created

in the first module or try another one, Say it

to yourself and actually believe it.

And then try your project and after you're done, just

assess what you've made, learn from what you've done and

try it again and before you know, your inner artist

is going to come out.

Trust me, just try it.

Uh So this was a bit of a shorter session,

Thanks so much for watching and I really would be

interested in seeing what you've made and the different kind

of deals that you've found and as well, just like

how it feels as you're going through this process.

So please share, you can find me again on instagram

or Pinterest or um on facebook.

So thanks again for taking this course with me.

I hope you enjoyed it and any feedback that you

have, I'd love to hear it.

This is my first time making this kind of thing.

So it was putting myself out there a little bit.

So yeah, I hope you enjoyed it.

Bye now.

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