Positive personality trait

Artistic

adj. Showing creative skill or a strong sense of beauty.

4 ready sentences Updated Run by Adrian Nutiu

What it looks like

  • Draws, paints, plays, dances, sings or makes things, often for the joy of it.
  • Notices color, shape and sound that others pass by.
  • Turns an ordinary task into something beautiful.

Fits when someone has a gift for making or enjoying art, music, dance, or design

Not when the word stands in for 'messy' or 'impractical', a stereotype rather than a description

How to say it

Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.

Fills [Name] in the reference and the report card comment, ready to copy.

  • Resume line
    Designed [posters, sets or visuals] for [number] [events or campaigns], [result such as attendance or reach].
  • Reference or recommendation
    [Name] is artistic, and puts it to use: they designed [the signs, the newsletter or the display] for [organization], and people noticed.
  • Report card comment
    [Name] is artistic and their work in art and music shows real care and imagination.
  • In a story, shown not told
    The others drew the bowl of fruit. She drew the shadow it threw on the wall, and the teacher pinned it up by the door.
Example

The artistic eight-year-old turned the recycling into a cardboard city.

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