Feeling Artistically Stuck
Thankyou so much for your amazing reponse to my last post! It's so lovely to share my passion for colour with others that understand what I'm gushing about!
You'd have thought that after that I'd be all fired up and filled with inspiration, getting my paints out and splashing the colour around but instead of this I've found myself stuck.
Advice from the past tells me to 'fill the well' and 'go on a creative date'. Is this familiar to anyone? Julia Cameron's book The Artists Way is one I've read so many times I think I know it off by heart. I love it and it's filled with advice about staying creative but I did 'fill the well' and it doesn't seem to have worked. I've been out on lots of walks in nature, visited an aMAZing exhibition that I wrote about in my last post but now that I'm back to the usual routine I'm finding that I don't know which way to turn. I've tried to paint but it doesn't come out as I wish it to and lacks that sponteneity I love about painting. What's going on??
I considered giving up painting for a couple of weeks and thought that maybe also a break from social media might help. I look at other people's Facebook pages and blogs and they're filled with activity and achievements that make me feel that I can't do it any more. I don't know what direction to take.
In the past I've seen other artists say similar things to this and I've written 'helpful' comments in reply, suggesting they play and to not worry about the outcome,
so that's just what I did.
I played with inks in my sketchbook and these words came into my head, so I wrote them down: 'Whispers of the heart' and
'The garden of possibility.'
It's a start but I don't know where this is going and maybe I shouldn't worry about that but to just 'turn up at the page' and to trust the process.
Sorry for this melancholic post. I do like my blog to be a happy place and in a way it has a sort of happy ending doesn't it?
Another thought is that I had might have had inspiration overload and there needs to be more of a balance with the filling of the well and the creative output.
What do you think?
xx
Comments
I know you will come through it and it will be magical when you do. You are awesome and talented and it always makes me smile when I see your work. x x
I read a quote recently and it said something about how artists lose their creativity at times because they were just over thinking and being too hard on themselves, and that all you had to do was just not think too much about it and let the creativity flow. All artists get stuck once in awhile, and so do writers. So, I hope this helps some, and I wouldn't worry too much about it.......your pictures are very special, filled with loveliness, and always make me smile.
love,
~Sheri
I shouldn't worry too much about your "painter's block" .... just do something else, knit, embroider, cook, walk in your lovely surroundings (is that all bear leek ????) or read a book ....
It WILL come back to you, I'm sure !
Have a good lazy week, Jess !
i think most of us have experienced what you are writing about. I remember once when i had a jewelry business, I just could not sit down and make any more one day... i wondered what i would do if i felt that way forever. 5 days later i was looking forward to making jewelry.
perhaps your spirit is guiding you to another experience you will have when you fill your time with what ever inspires you. Not permanently, but maybe one hour or day.
I trust you will be enjoying art any moment or day, it is such a big part of you and i can feel your heart and spirit in the things you create.
lovely to see your photos and art.
xo
La nouvelle saison agit sur notre ressenti et nos émotions qui se sentent troublés... L'agitation retombée semblable à des particules vous verrez que tout va rentrer dans l'ordre et que vos idées vont jaillir. Laissez le temps au temps... Rien n'est négatif.
J'aime beaucoup ce jardin extraordinaire... où tout est possible. De petites graines vont germer, j'en suis certaine.
Gros bisous ❀ ❁ ❤︎ ❤︎ ❤︎ ❁ ❀
Greetings
(by the way love this first pic!)
Elisabeth
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rather than inspire me.
it makes me nervous...
"why am I the only one who isn't painting???"
you know...
I usually fall into a block
right when I am coasting with possibilities
and everything feels sooo right and so good and it is never-ending and then BOOM
Nothing.
for what seems like forever.
Kinda like a manic
a junkie
isn't it?
I see you are on the upswing again...take care and keep trying.
♥ ♥ ♥
Try writing a ghost story...
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