Tag Archive 'creativity'

Too many ideas

Do you ever feel like you have too many ideas? Lately I’ve got so many rough ideas running around in my head that when I sit down at my work table, I am really unsure where to start. The ideas are just crowding each other out. Usually, I will get at least […]

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Not the week I expected

I was supposed to be away this week, traveling with some friends. Unfortunately I got sick and had to stay home. Nothing terribly serious, but enough that I wanted the comforts of home. It has been a disappointing week feeling blah and filled with the drudgery of household stuff. At the […]

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Creative skills - use them or lose them

The force field or block which tends to keep me out of the studio has spread to the blog.  I am not writing as often, and I feel like the quality of my writing has declined.  Also, I don’t find myself thinking about writing as much as I had been.  Writing is not what I […]

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Time on the bench

A bad pun… I feel like I have been creatively sidelined. Getting completely away from the studio and computer for a family vacation was lovely, but it has really put me off my creative game. (to continue the lame metaphor) Add to the mix the peculiar phenomenon that is Spring school/sports activities […]

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Wallowing a bit

If you have spent any time reading my blog, you will realize by now that my art comes in fits and starts. Right now I’m in a prolonged period of inactivity. I think it’s one of the challenges of a non-working artist. I don’t have show deadlines or orders to push me […]

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Giving myself a D for effort

Ok, so I dropped the ball on my “Creativity Homework” yesterday. I never went down into the studio to blend a new palette of spring colors. I let the imaginary invisible force field keep me out of the studio and rooted to my chair in front of the computer. I have this mental […]

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Creativity Homework

I haven’t been in much of a creative mood lately. For some reason, it’s been hard to dredge up any enthusiasm for any of my usual creative pursuits. I’ve channeled a bit of creative energy into the blog re-do, but it’s not the same. Rather than wallow in this downer, I’m giving […]

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