The Creative Process

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When I first came across Betty Edward's 5-stage Model for the Creative Process, I was intrigued. After doing some digging, I found that it comes from a tweaked 4-Stage Model of Graham Wallass. I've written about it before in the post about drawing tomatoes at the allotment and bring you through my day with a show & tell.

Knowing how to reframe and aim for creative solutions whenever life throws something that stinks at us is a matter of naming it and asking what else it could be ...

compost for thought - right!

I know!

I taught figure drawing for 35 years, and as we all know, when we're just starting, we often learn by making mistakes.

I have fun confiding my many mistakes made learning and how I still make them ... because learning is a life-long endeavour!

which leaves much food for thought

speaking of food

in my garden

I gathered so much mulch for it at the end of each teaching year as students sorted through their old newsprint pads for drawings selecting portfolio pieces ... I got to keep all the pages they threw out and compost them in my garden.

I wrote this post called Nudes at the Allotment

Tell me that's not a process ... and it's not creative - LOL.

I love sharing ways to use the creative process every day ... in every way.

Here's another process I shared in with students ...

Sandra singing Love You.

This is a photo of an illustration I did for the Final Cover of children's book documenting a professional creative process I went through as an exercise with Sandra Dedrick, my cient who became a fast-friend, so I could show students how I took the project pieces through 4-stages from Thumbnail to Rough and Working Drawings ... through to a Final photo-ready piece of artwork.

It was a project I took on during my 2012 Sabbatical for the song, Love You, written by Sandra who commissioned the artwork for her children. I kept the process drawings and presented them in a faculty show in The Sheridan Gallery and at The Arts & Letters Club, in downtown, Toronto.

I wrote more about that process in blog post back in 2017, titled, Hey - We're in a Show!

And closing with a pic taken of me by Sandra, standing, proud as Punch, with a piece of the work in the front part of the Main Room at the Arts & Letter's Club, where I was a member most of my teaching career.