Thursday, September 3, 2009

A Creative Walk

This morning while I was on Twitter someone was asking how do you get the creative juices flowing? A great question. Most of us don't take the time to figure out how we do what we do, we just do it. The problem with that is we tend to get in a rut. (even if we don't know it) My suggestion was a simple one. Get out, take a walk and sketch (or take pics) of the color combinations that you see. What better way to get ready for the fall colors than to take your inspiration straight from nature!

I liked my idea so much that I took my own advice and set off with my 2 year old and we took pictures. But instead of taking pictures of what I found interesting I took pictures of things that drew his attention. He loved this, he figured out what I was doing right away and starting pointing out all kinds of things and helping take the pictures too!

I love when I am able to include my son in what I am doing, if you are a parent you totally understand what I mean. So below is a few of the things we stopped and took pictures of, I hope you find them as inspiring as we did.

I would love to know what you do to get your creative juices flowing too. Feel free to share what you do or what you do to get your kids involved in the creative process.

3 comments:

Etsy Dallas said...

cool, that sounds fun! when I'm trying to solve a creative problem, I try to look at things from as mnay angles as possible -- that's when it get interesting and the juices get going! :)

CinLynn Boutique said...

This is so awesome! Your son has great taste, and it's a good, relaxing way to enjoy what we see around us and to get our creative juices flowing! Thanks so much for sharing this!

missknits said...

very cool and earthy pics!!

for me, so many things can inspire me, from seeing new things on etsy, to just looking at new yarn/fabric i've bought and trying to visualize what to turn it into.