Part of expanding your creative toolkit is learning new skills and finding ways to incorporate them into you art and creative process. Learning a new skill or application can also help you overcome the limits of your own medium. Print  making is so much fun, and it can help you change your perspectives of color and shadow, positive and negative space, and how colors relate to each other. To get you started in the world of printmaking, here are my top five (in no particular order) favorite online printing tutorials: Block Print Tutorial by Lizzy House How to Silkscreen Posters …

Earlier this week I wrote about how building your arsenal of creative resources can inspire creativity and provide a well of creative insight to draw upon. If you don’t have a stockpile yet, here’s how you can begin to build your own: Take stock. First, you need to know what you have and what you’re missing. Do you have lots of fabrics and papers, or not many at all? Do you have a variety of colors, or are most of theme in the same color scheme? Do you have real fiber brushes but no synthetic? Wide sponges but not narrow …

One of the best ways to increase creativity is to try something new. Even though the new skill you’re trying out may not be directly related to the project you’re working on, you’ll find that stretching your creative muscles in one area allows other ideas to incubate unconsciously. At the end of your experiment, you’ll likely have discovered a new way to tackle the “real” project you’re working on. You might try a new way of brainstorming, or a new craft altogether. For the last several weeks, I’ve been fascinated with learning to screen print. I picked up a book by …