Don't Lose Your Creative Ideas: Expert and Award-Winning Artist Offers Tips

Expert and Award-Winning Artist Offers Tips to Keep Creative Ideas in the Forefront

Hollister, CA (PRWEB) May 17, 2005

Everyone can benefit from greater creativity. Creativity transforms good ideas into great ideas. Creative thinking can give insight into overcoming challenges. It enhances the ability to problem solve. And the good news is, according to award winning artist Shannon Grissom – everyone is creative.

“Tapping into each individual’s creative ability is vital to an organization maximizing their results,” says Grissom. “Even if you’ve never considered yourself creative, there are proven techniques and approaches to help anyone claim their own creativity.”

Grissom offers the following tips to help develop one’s creative process:

1) Don’t initially dismiss any idea. “We often disregard the ideas that pop in our head, thinking they’re too crazy, foolish, or you just don’t have time,” says Grissom. “If you dismiss your ideas on a consistent basis, soon you’re brain will turn-off the creative process.”

2) Write it down. “Keep a file, a notebook or a voice recorder near you at all times and get those ideas down so you won’t forget them,” she says. Then set aside some time each week to review your ideas.”

3) Take time to develop a plan. “When reviewing your ideas, think of ways that you can develop your ideas. Then embrace the ones you know you can accomplish by making a plan and breaking it down it achievable steps,” says the artist.

4) Do some research. “Find out how others have developed similar ideas, not to copy, but to learn what works best,” says Grissom. “That way you can avoid some of the same mistakes along the way.”

According to Grissom, people who routinely follow these steps find they are able to develop creative skills, expanded sense perception, concept innovation and problem solving, increased inspiration and brainstorming. “Becoming more creative allows you to find new ways of looking at life. It can be exciting and transformative,” she says.

About Shannon Grissom:

Shannon Grissom is an acclaimed oil painter who has been nominated for an ARTV 2005 award, the first televised art awards show in the country. Compelled by a single note of color, her paintings use vibrant hues to express the relationship between color, her subjects, their environment, and the ever-present music she loves. Grissom’s artwork can be seen and purchased at several galleries on the west coast.

Since August 2003, Grissom has been the host and producer of the award-winning television show Give Your Walls Some Soul, where she shares tips and techniques about painting and creativity.

For more information, contact Shannon Grissom at 831.638.4928 or shannon@shannongrissom.com.

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