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Dear Wonderful, Creative You, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me, one of the biggest secrets to overcome creative block is repetition. This might seem counter-intuitive, because I think a lot of people assume repetition feels boring. But I don’t find repetition boring in art, on the contrary, I find it freeing and energizing. Repetition gives me space to play, make mistakes, and explore each technique in a million different ways. It’s a bit like being a scientist and asking a lot of What if? questions, but no one else gets to dictate my line of inquiry – I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want to walk you through how this works, so let’s use my current project with watercolor and watercolor resist techniques as an example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Project: Watercolor Resist Circles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Materials<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 and 3 inch watercolor circles<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masking fluid<\/a> applied with a brush<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniel Smith Watercolor: Indigo shade<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Water<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With watercolor and resist techniques, I’m keeping my work limited to one color. Why? I want to limit the variables that I’m playing with so I can push each technique as far as possible – this allows me to be as creative as I can. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Limitation feeds creativity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Too many choices pull you in too many directions at once and can feel paralyzing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Open Creative Doors With One Powerful Question<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So much of making art and creativity is about asking one powerful question: What if…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if I wrote a 5 line poem each day for 1 month? What if I started each poem with a random word from the dictionary? What if I found a thread to connect each day’s poem? See how asking – what if? – can open creative doors?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you can imagine, you can apply What if? questions to any art form or creative endeavor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here’s my current What If? Question:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if I created simple marks in watercolor resist and then painted washes of indigo paint on top?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you see how this one question contains so many more questions? It’s the starting point for potentially hundreds or thousands of questions and creative experiments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can join our workshop here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Join the workshop!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Look at all the variables in this experiment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mark Making Variables<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n