Melissa Dinwiddie is the founder of Creative Sandbox Solutions™, a creative consultancy that helps organizations build cultures of creativity and innovation through the strategic use of play.
Melissa Dinwiddie delivers workshops and keynotes to corporations, conferences, high schools, and colleges; hosts creativity retreats; runs an online community for women; and is the author of The Creative Sandbox Way™: Your Path to a Full-Color Life.
She shares her writings, artwork, and music on her blog, Living A Creative Life.
The interesting thing about his interview, it that melissa always taught of herself as a noncreative person, always thinking that her art wasn’t good enough when compared to other’s people art.
Then through a series of events, she discovered her artistic abilities. She was so successful at her craft, that she made a business out of her art. Her business grew so much that she didn’t have time to do art for art’s sake.
At a given moment, she decided that she needed a sandbox to create art without a commercial purpose, she needed to create a space where she could just create art just to have fun and to let her creativity flow, and thus the concept of the creative sandbox was born.
See Melissa at work right here
Her book
There is an artist inside of every one of us, and we continue suppressing it because of so many misconceptions about us not being good enough, or being artistic is not serious enough, or because we think that being an artist doesn’t make us any money. Yet, creating that space to create art is one of the most rewarding things we can do in our life. And you know what? art doesn’t’ have to make money. Watching TV doesn’t make money, scrolling through social media doesn’t make money, yet, those things don’t feed us and we do them every day.
You know, the average North American watches 4 hours of TV per day. Could you imagine how much richer your life would be if you devote that time to art?
Some of the most successful people in our era practiced art. “The greatest scientists are artists as well,” said Albert Einstein. he was an amateur pianist and violinist.
Winston Churchill used to be a painter and he created 550 paintings.
And there are many more successful people who have build a creative sandbox to practice their art.
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