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A Few Steps to Help You Achieve Beading Inspiration and Aesthetic Sense

By Paula S. Morgan, About.com

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Keep a Notebook or Journal of Inspirational Images/Articles.

Every time you see something that just reaches out and grabs you cut it out and stick it in a notebook or file. Don't limit your choices to pictures of beadwork, grab any image that excites you. This serves two purposes:

  1. It helps you get closer to defining your own personal sense of style. This is not meant to be a method of limiting yourself, but a means to extracting the essence of your artistic vision. The more you know about your taste in color and design the more likely you are to do work that truly pleases yourself and others.

  2. This collection of exciting images will be a godsend to you on those days when you just can't seem to get those ideas flowing.

Tip: Use a three ring binder and add some plain paper for jotting down ideas and sketches as you have them. Sometimes it seems like we come up with all the ideas we could possibly use when we're busy doing something else.

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