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Make your best craft and creative work better with this colorful little manual of new and helpful ways to best express your creativity, break through creative blocks, and improve your flow. This colourful little manual is welcoming and unintimidating, and it solves a common problem - ""Why can't I be as creative as I want to? Why can't I make better art and craft work?"" - using very attractive and innovative solutions. In its full-colour pages, you'll find a variety of new and helpful ways to best express your creativity, break through creative blocks, and improve your work. Author Roberta Bergmann's spot-on guidance includes 40 prescriptions for boosting creativity - including Brainwriting (creative ways to get started); Bullet Journal (a calendar-based plan of action); Idea Box (collecting things that inspire you); Arrange a Rendezvous with Yourself (set a date and time for tasks you want to complete); Broaden Your Horizons by attending special events for inspiration. You'll also find 15 tips for overcoming creative blocks - including Be Brave & Jump, Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Turn Negatives Into Positives, and more.For fans of the popular books The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron and Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon, this colorful little manual solves a common problem - ""Why can't I be as creative as I want to? Why can't I make better art and craft work?"" - using very attractive and innovative solutions. Its full-color pages include new and helpful ways readers can best express their creativity. Along with author Roberta Bergmann's spot-on guidance, every spread combines photos, the helpful work of successful artists worldwide to learn from, insights, hashtags to check out, and more. Includes 40 activities and bits of helpful advice for boosting creativity, 15 first aid tips for overcoming blocks, and other resources that will help readers improve and express their creative flow. AUTHOR: Roberta Bergmann is a freelance artist, illustrator, and book designer. With more than 15 years as a creative professional, she is the author of several books published in Europe, including The Basics of Design. 177 colour images

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Author:   Roberta Bergmann
Publisher:   Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Weight:   0.816kg
ISBN:  

9780764363085

ISBN 10:   0764363085
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   27 September 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

ForewordWhom Is this Book for? 8   What is Creativity? A Brief Introduction 10   Questionnaire about Creative Types 14   Which Creative and Working Type Are You? 16   How to Start 22   1. Status Quo 24 2. The Place 25 3. Workplace 26 4. The Battle Plan 26 5. Distractions 27 6. Get Started 27   40 Prescriptions 28 No. 1 Just Get Started 30 No. 2 Or Do You Prefer to Plan? 32 No. 3 Finding the Right Theme 34 No. 4 Stash of Materials: Treasure Hoards 38 No. 5 Ask Your Way through Your Future Project 40 No. 6 Act Like a Child 42 No. 7 Think in the Opposite Way 44 No. 8 Sources of Inspiration 46 No. 9 Rendezvous with Yourself 48 No. 10 Chaos! 50 No. 11 Recombine Things 52 No. 12 Riches of Variation 54 No. 13 Use Your Subconscious 56 No. 14 Try It Out Mathematically 58 No. 15 Provoke, Rebel: Time for Wild Ideas! 60 No. 16 Change Your Perspective 62 No. 17 Hermit or Team Player? 64 No. 18 Things Do Happen by Chance 66 No. 19 Hang in There, Keep Going! 68 No. 20 And Now: Take a Break! 70 No. 21 Sparring Partner 72 No. 22 Be Interdisciplinary 74     No. 23 Take the Elevator 76 No. 24 Practice, Practice, Practice 78 No. 25 Tell Stories 80 No. 26 No Dogmatism, Please! 82 No. 27 Experiment 84 No. 28 Broadening your Horizons 86 No. 29 Improvise 88 No. 30 Keep It Simple 90 No. 31 Intuition or: the First Idea 92 No. 32 Selective Perception 94 No. 33 Visualize Ideas 96 No. 34 Role Models & Guiding Figures 98 No. 35 Research Spirit & Inventive Spirit 100 No. 36 Humor 102 No. 37 Get Yourself Moving 104 No. 38 Surrealism 106 No. 39 Find Analogies 108 No. 40 Thinking Outside the Box 110   First Aid for Blocking 112   Recognizing & Analyzing Blocks 114   No. 1 Be Brave, Jump In 116 No. 2 Get Out of Your Comfort Zone 118 No. 3 The Right Timing No. 4 There's No Such Thing as Perfection! 122 No. 5 Find Rituals 124 No. 6 Turn Negative into Positive 126 No. 7 Willpower, Perseverance & Continuity 128 No. 8 Support 130 No. 9 Set Boundaries 132 No. 10 Time Out for Body and Spirit 134 No. 11 Overcome Obstacles 138 No. 12 A Restart 140 No. 13 Appreciate Your Worth 142 No. 14 Classify Criticism Objectively 144 No. 15 Stop! Pull the Emergency Brake 146   Appendix 148   Thanks! 150 Recommended Reading 151 List of Sources and List of Images 152 Index of Key Words 157

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Roberta Bergmann (Braunschweig, Germany) is a freelance artist, illustrator, and book designer. With more than 15 years as a creative professional, she is the author of several books published in Europe, including The Basics of Design. www.robertabergmann.de

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