Unleash your creative energy and let it flow. Relish the possibilities.

Listening to music as preparation or background for your work brings you into a creative mood... choose one type of music to calm down, another to reach a higher energy level, depending on the artwork you are doing.

Gather knowledge... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and imagination.

You owe it to yourself to make your creative development a top priority.

Creativity isn't magic. It's achievable.

Your hopes and dreams, as well as your perception of the world around you, come through in your work and make it unique.

Allow some warm-up time each day to stimulate your creative flow. A pianist does keyboard exercises. A gymnast stretches. An artist needs to loosen up, too. It takes a few minutes to shift from the real world into a creative mode.