I’m currently sitting on my front porch in a rocking chair entangled by overgrown canes of English climbing roses that I don’t prune very well. They’re blooming like crazy. It’s a little chaotic and a lot bewitching and in this golden hour light I can’t help but to think that simply enjoying nature’s creativity is the most creative thing I can do in this moment.
But spring is like that, isn’t it? You can feel good by merely going outside and just being in the sun and birdsong (unlike winter when my most productive days still feel pointless in the endless gray doldrums).
Expansion
By being in spring, we’re more fully alive. By enjoying creation, we’re more creative inside. By soaking in its beauty, we become more beautiful.
Spring expands us on a soul-level. In the same way we expand how we define ourselves in spring, so too does the definition of creativity expand.
Building, baking, gardening, growing, nurturing, feeding, designing, dancing, dressing- all are marvelous expressions of a creative lifestyle. For me, spring spurs on the creation of food and flowers in my garden. (As evidenced by the yard photos in this post!) For you, spring might inspire something completely different!
Ideas
In that magnificent spirit of possibility, I made a choose-your-own-adventure list of ideas all about seasonal creativity for spring! Enjoy, friends!
- Bake with berries
- Sketch your yard flowers
- Make a new playlist for brighter days
- Paint with Easter colors
- Document a songbird family from nest building to the fledgings leaving the nest
- Get fancy dyeing Easter eggs
- Express your faith visually
- Write a poem outside
- Make a color palette inspired by the flowers blooming
- Build a toolshed
- Paint the spring light
- Repaint the picnic table a cheery color
- Make a flower arrangement for someone
- Photography nature walk
- Nurture and protect the animals babies under your care (nest of baby cardinals etc)
- Build an inspiration board from a trip for future use in your art
- Organize an outdoor art party with your favorite people
- Make spring-themed royal icing cookies
- Try cyanotype printing with all this daylight
- Plant an herb garden
- Use found objects in nature as mark-making tools in your artwork
- Add a bench to your backyard or a swing to your porch
- Sketch the bees pollinating and try to communicate a sense of motion
What would you add to this list? Let me know how spring is inspiring your making! (And if you need more seasonal creativity for spring, tap here!)
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