CHAPTER THREE

Bloom (Discovering Your Own Style)

I have always loved this quote by Pablo Picasso. It speaks such truth and after all, inspiration is a very fundamental part of our creativeness. We need to be inspired to create, but unless we create from our inspirations there is nothing to see. You have to show up and do the work, too.

We all have days when we don’t feel inspired at all, but inspiration really is all around us: people, nature, animals, other countries and cultures, artists, music, words, memories, magazines, vintage and contemporary designs; even just our art materials can be inspiring with the colors and textures they create. It is through what we personally find inspiring that we can develop our own art style. As we are all inspired by different things, this will help your unique style to bloom. But like the quote says, we do have to show up and work.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

—Pablo Picasso