creative play flowers – living a creative life

Here are a few flowers I created this afternoon.

This obviously is not supposed to be a work of magnificent art and its not particularly useful for anything.

It is what it is and it’s a creation.

We can look at a piece of artwork and find it hard to justify how can that 1 peice be worth so much money.

I admit it’s true art is not particularly a necessity in life like food or water we CAN live without it.
In saying that though artwork  challenges emotions – sometimes thoughts an opinions, sometimes just reminders -  for example Having a picture of a beach scene in your house might remind you of a family holiday or person you met at the beach or maybe a location you want to travel to.

Seeing an artwork can provoke a response in people that will mean different things to different people. Same in business having a particular colour, style as your branding or logo  or artwork on your product may also encourage your customers to buy your product over another.

For the person who creates, living a creative life means that you have many experiments and challenges that leads you to the 1 you maybe putting out into the world.

For the customer what you are investing in is all the years the person has invested in themselves to acquire that skill it doesn’t just come without commitment and work despite however talented  it takes work.

For the creative its hard but VITAL that you remember that everything you create leads you to the next, the creation exists because you have created it – it is not YOU nor  can it be your only investment of your skill. You must push on.

This not only relates to artworks but to systems, processes, projects other things you may also create in your life – i think it particularly relates to cooking myself.
If you like to cook you know sometimes recipes work sometimes they don’t.  Sometimes you might experiment and add a bit of this or that it might be great, next time you might try to add those again, or omit them depending on how it turned out. Doesn’t mean your going to stop cooking, next time in another recipe you may try the same ingredient in that to see how it turns out. That is the creative process.

So here are my flowers for today, what you see is the result of an experiment of trying new process and papers that didn’t work out how i wanted, so rather than push on and continue with the whole flower I stopped at one petal then turned it into a flower digitally and  then manipulated it by changing its colour and then I  added a leaf I created the other day.

Is it a masterpiece NO, is it a creation in itself – YES.
Is it less creative than if i had pushed on and created the whole flower? Will leave you to answer that one…

It is what is and tomorrow is another day and so there will be another creation.