Chan was working on a painting of the Golden Gate Bridge. He was almost done but was at loss for ideas om the shade to use for the outer horizon in his painting. He took a break from his work and came back to it after a few weeks. Chan is in the? Stage of his creative process.

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Chan was working on a painting of the Golden Gate Bridge. He was almost done but was at loss for ideas om the shade to use for the outer horizon in his painting. He took a break from his work and came back to it after a few weeks. Chan is in the insight stage of his creative process.

Scholars consider that there are five stages in the creative process. In this case, Chan is on the third stage called insight, where he takes sometime after doing so much work to regain perspective and get new ideas to follow on with the creativity and finish his work. The other stages of the creative process are preparation, incubation, evaluation, and elaboration. Creative people - one way or the other - go through similar stages to create their pieces of art.

Chan starts to lose his perspective he needs a break or take some time out and maybe he would be back to the project with fresh eyes