Creativity: A Short Fun Story to Celebrate 2016 National Storytelling Week

Did you know that it is The Society for Storytelling's 16 annual National Storytelling Week, this week?

Here is one of Morgan Gleave Art & Design's contributions to the event, the other 'A Posh Do:  A Warning to Curvy Women Everywhere' can be found by clicking here.

CREATIVITY

Once upon a time there were some people living in Leicestershire.  Their very souls were seeped in creativity.


They used this creativity every day in their work with Morgan Gleave Art & Design, but often it was not enough.  Nearly every day they had leftover creativity spilling out everywhere.

If not used up properly during their working day, the creativity spilt onto their chairs, onto the floor, onto books and magazines, even all over the cat.  What a mess!

Fab chair.  Looks like a throne 

Do you know what colour creativity is?  Purple.  Just like royal robes.  Ohhhh, it was pretty.  Well, those who were creative thought it was.  Other people did not always agree.  It tended to stain carpets and Pom Pom the cat was not too keen on being purple.

Poor Pom Pom...  Horrid neighbourhood cats!

The neighbourhood cats teased and laughed at Pom Pom when she was purple.  They said that she looked like a Jelly Babyt.  How mean!  

It was not all bad, it helped Pom Pom catch mice.  The mice were so busy staring or rolling around on the floor laughing that they forgot to run away.

Run, Mousie, Run!  It may be purple but
IT IS STILL A CAT!

One day the Morgan Gleave Art & Design partners got bored with drawing, painting landscapes, cutting, sticking and even with making rockets from papier-mâché and buggies from Lego.  

They stopped creating...  

Peep Peep!  Peep Peep!

What to do?  Their creativity really got out of hand.  It was so bad that it was seeping out of the house under the red door.  Oh my word, what a clash of colours!  

Goodness!  It looks like a purple 'red carpet'.

The creativity flowed onto the pavement turning it purple, over the kerb turning it purple, and into the road turning it purple too.  

The creativity kept on flowing, there was so much of it that it turned the post box purple and even the pigeons sitting on a fence got caught!

Would you post a letter in a box that looked like this?

Poor little birdbrains!  They didn't even notice the purple all around them,
never mind that they were purple themselves.

Something had to be done!  Fast!  But what?  Create something of course!  Uh, ha!  A manga portrait!  That would make an exciting change and use up some creativity. 

Out came the acrylic paints.  Out came an easel and a canvas.  Out came a pallet and some paint brushes.  

In came a pretty woman to model.  

Where's the purple?

Busy, busy, busy.  Paint, paint, paint.  Stand back.  Look.  Think.  Paint, paint, paint.  Busy, busy, busy.

All this time the creativity was receding and pouring into the painting.  The pigeon turned white and grey again.  The fence they had been sitting on turned cream again and the post box reverted to red.  

Also, much to her relief, Pom Pom was back to her normal white self again. 

Oh my giddy aunt!  Just look at those silk sheets!
What a floozy!

The road turned back to its normal, rather boring colour, as did the kerb and the pavement.  Eventually, most of the creativity has poured itself into the painting.  Can you see it?

Manga Rock Chick!

Sadly, not all the creativity could fit into one painting and some of it was left over.  Can you see the spare creativity?  It is on your screen.  Look!  You can see it!  It's each side of this blog.  

Aaaahhh pretty...

THE END

Copyright 2016 Morgan Gleave Art & Design

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