Creative Exercises to Spark Original Thinking

Course details

Ignite your creative spark. Discover short exercises to build your creative habits, refresh your inspiration, and dispel your inhibitions. This course consists of 20 hands-on prompts to inspire and motivate anyone to experiment with new materials and techniques. Re-engage your senses; play with shapes, found images, and watercolor; or sharpen a pencil by hand to reconnect to the tools of your trade. The goal is to liberate and engage both artists as well as self-described “non-creative” people. These simple practices can enhance your thinking, your perspective, and your appetite for risk—in the studio, the office, and in everyday life. Artist and educator Amy Wynne helps you understand what is blocking your inner voice and build the momentum you need to start an uninhibited creative flow.

Learning objectives
Moving past creative blocks
Generating ideas
Letting go of perfection
Strengthening connection for authentic ideas
Adopting fresh approaches to seeing
Collaborating to build relationships
Choosing alternative viewpoints
Rewriting an old story
Rearranging the familiar
Shifting perspective

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Ignite your creative spark

1. Move Past Creative Blocks

02 - Introduction
03 - Liberate an initial plan
04 - Refresh ideas with creative magic
05 - Generate new ideas with repeat patterns
06 - Let go of perfection
07 - Respond to new starting points

2. Strengthen Connection for Authentic Ideas

08 - Introduction
09 - Enhance everyday tasks
10 - Create variations through deconstruction
11 - Fresh approaches to seeing
12 - Gleaning order from chaos
13 - Own your idea from the start

3. Move Beyond Habitual Thinking

14 - Introduction
15 - Collaborate to build relationships
16 - Creative catalysts for moving forward
17 - Choose alternative viewpoints
18 - Work without a plan - Improvising
19 - Honor awkwardness - Engaging your brain

4. Visions and Revisions

20 - Introduction
21 - Rewrite an old story
22 - Choose what to accept and reject
23 - Rearrange the familiar
24 - Morph to move beyond a single idea
25 - Shift perspective to envision new worlds

Conclusion

26 - Next steps - Change it up