Awakening your association muscles means noticing how every choice you make shapes your creative process. Everything within you emerges through your art. Learn to recognize how each element affects the others. Consider how advances in optics influenced art, or how technology led to new musical instruments. Everything is connected.   Your hand has two sides, and so does your creative process. One side holds the brush; think of the other as your creative soul or muse. Each side informs the other. Your point of view shapes your story. Reach into a deeper understanding of why you create. What is your story? The more [...]