Gardening is my most creative outlet as of late. Granted, it is closely associated with my job, but it's something I absolutely love to do. Composing with the color and texture of foliage and flowers and then having to care for the little buggers.
It's funny what education does...It usually informs you, but it doesn't always inspire you. My wife and I met in art school and fell in love, at the time I was the faggoty little goth kid who wore skirts and dresses and wore lots of black makeup.
At any rate, we followed each other into the same program, and ended up graduating so incredibly cynical and embittered with the whole art world once we finally graduated. She has rekindled her artistic passion though, I have largely redirected mine. I have occasionally poked around with knitting, latchhooks, things like that. But my biggest creative draw as of late is that of writing. I have been told once-upon-a-time that I'm a half decent writer, and I enjoy writing poetry and have the ambition of writing a novel documenting some of my memoirs.
Jim, do you do the majority of your art on a computer? Computers were always too sterile and mechanical for my taste. I preferred media that provided more tactile stimulation.