Cre8Tiva's

I am a Digital Mixed Media R-tiste/Designer, PhotoShop Expert, Retreat Leader, Dreamer, Deliberate Creator, Lifelong Communicator & Blissful Wordsmith...just one inspired creative soul on a journey to Cre8Topia... I am passionate about PhotoShop and the artform known as Digital Mixed Media Painting & Design. I create art from original paintings, doodles and photographs combined in PhotoShop, printed on canvas, fabric and paper then embellished by hand. It is a multi-disciplinary approach that embraces my love of texture, type, words, design and computer software to produce heavily layered and textured mixed media artwork. My other passion is helping others embrace the artist within and create a life around their passion...I believe that every dream is possible and possible is everywhere! Movement toward the edge of what’s possible is my motto! My Mission I am on a quest to help artisans find their visual voice, embrace their uniqueness, learn to trust their inner wisdom and then find the courage to share it with the world...and have a blast along the way!!! This is the quest for Cre8Topia! R-tiste Rebecca E. Parsons is a Deliberate Creator you may know as Cre8Tiva, her alter ego. Rebecca/Cre8Tiva have been on a blissful journey to Cre8Topia for decades leaving imaginative artwork and creatively inspired students strewn throughout the world. To meet her is to get swept away by the whirlwind of creative passion and enthusiasm she exudes. She radiates caring warmth with a true desire to see you succeed. Her motto is…it is no harder to do what you love than to do what you don’t…. You can’t help but be inflamed to succeed as an artist. Rebecca’s award-winning art is mixed media personified. From doodles to digital paintings, from murals to custom designed purses and accessories her creations are magical fights of fancy that make you want to join in her quest for Cre8Topia. She shares this passion for creativity through workshops, two radio Talk Shows for artists, Cre8Tiva’s Blog, Cre8tive Compass Magazine, and as a Creativity Retreat Leader and Holistic Coach/Mentor to Artists. Rebecca has written and self-published five books for creative people and is writing her 6th, “Curate YOU…showing people who color outside the lines how to make a living doing what they love!” Her artists’ statement reads: “Early in life I knew I was creative as I would draw, dance, write and sing the day away. My box of broken crayons was my greatest treasure. I love to explore and push the limits of tools and products creating and experimenting with wild abandon. My work has evolved, as has my life, to embrace my love of the the computer, the human form, nature (especially the ocean) and my spirituality. You will find my work is figurative and whimsical and layered; plus I always hide a trademark bubble in my artwork! My propensity to use texture, especially little treasures I find, stems from the roots of my love for decorative painting (commonly called faux finishing).” So come along on the journey to Cre8Topia – where creativity and intuition meet to form intuitivity!