Release your creativity into 5 simple steps

I present my latest painting to you, because from it emerges the theme of today. I share with you the process that has developed while I was painting it and the lessons learned along the way and that will help you in your turn in your creative process.

✨ Creative surprise

Basically, I wanted to completely draw something else

But I learn to explore and not freeze

On my first idea and to be surprised ...

And to my amazement, my trial and error, tests

And Doodle gave rise to something really beautiful

Which I like a lot.

I got out of "the stake of doing what I thought" - and perfectly please! 😅

To enter into the wonder of the creativity that lives, which moves,

Who comes to life, and the artist then becomes the admiring spectator 🤩

5 keys to letting go and letting you surprise in creativity

(These keys are also valid in the resilience process!)

🗝️ Key 1: Get out of the stake of doing what you thought at the base

I had a really precise idea of ​​what I wanted to do, including the title of the painting and everything. It was very clear in my head! But I was frustrated because I couldn't do it, it didn't "come". Noting this, I decided to let go, and that brought me to the next point.

🗝️ Key 2: Explore new ideas without freezing on the first

So, I said to myself: "Too bad, I continue my tests, I discover and explore other brushs and I see what will come". The important thing here was not to stay on the growing state of frustration that threatened to jeopardize the reason why I wanted to create this painting (share a really positive message- not a good idea when you are yourself in full interior frustration!). In doing so, I reconnected to a curious state of mind, explorer and with my pleasure.

🗝️ Key 3: To be surprised by your own trial and error

So I continued my little brush trials, I left the mixtures of textures, colors, flattens to inspire me, without even knowing exactly what I was painting. I discovered super nice patterns, mixtures, some happy, others not at all!

I like to put myself in “sandbox” mode and see what comes, without stake, just to draw, create, let the shapes, colors that I appreciate. And there ... the magic begins!

🗝️Clé 4: enter the wonder of the creativity that lives and moves

I felt like I was moving with living creativity, in which I become an executor, participating in this "beautiful in motion". This wonderful feeling of seeing a work come to life. I am then the energy of the moment, this impulse that changes every moment. At the time it doesn't really seem to make sense, but as you go ... I realize that in fact it takes a real turn, not just abstract. I am then what is born under my brush: a kintsugi pottery. The challenge is then not to hang on to this image - indeed, we get very quickly then a mental image of what it should look like and we would come back in something frozen from the first point mentioned. I stayed in the flexibility of "OK that makes you think of a Kintsugi pottery but I want to see where it brings me exactly". Without fixing me.

🗝️ Key 5: become the admiring spectator of your own art

I am very brain at the base and I mainly approach my paintings with a precise idea of ​​what I would like to represent. It is good to have a theme, a basic concept, but for me this way of painting, in fact, hid the fact that I do not have at all confidence if I paint without a precise and structured idea, that May give well. In fact, I have the feeling that if I really let my "me" express themselves, without channeling by thought, it will give great anything, that it will be ugly.

What a poor opinion I have of myself! I then realized how much I was lacking in self -confidence. I thought that my unconscious that I would let express by painting would necessarily come out in negative. I then realized that in fact, even without the dictatorial control of my thought, I could do very good things! I admit that I had a little shock by realizing this the other day.

Letting go is an essential key to finding inspiration and being surprised in creativity. By exploring new ideas, agreeing to deceive yourself and letting yourself be carried by your instinct, you can discover really incredible and unique things. So don't hesitate to get out of your comfort zone and let yourself be surprised by your own creativity! ✨

As a bonus, I flushed out a number of false beliefs that prevented me from following the points I mentioned above. Take the time to examine them and feel in yourself if it resonates or not and you can then do the work to change these beliefs.

• “Creativity is innate and we cannot develop it”
• “What I do must be perfect - and preferably the first time 😅”
• “My first idea is the right one and I cannot get out of it, otherwise the message I wanted to transmit“
• "I absolutely have to follow the idea that I have in mind because in fact, I do not trust my own creativity. I have the feeling that what will come out spontaneously from me will be "bad". "

Are there any points that told you about? Do not hesitate to take time and write in your newspaper if you have one to let yourself express yourself on it. It’s an exercise that helps me a lot. Just like speaking aloud and getting along makes us achieve things, there are awareness that is made while we write freely.

I encourage you every day to write three pages, without thinking, spontaneously or on a theme and looks at what emerges ... It helps a lot to become aware of your beliefs and be able to change them.

To see in full this work that inspired me, will seeHERE