creative inertia

Not the week I expected

May 15, 2008

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 beginning of the week [...]

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Creative skills – use them or lose them

May 8, 2008

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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Wallowing a bit

April 4, 2008

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 into making work. [...]

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Giving myself a D for effort

March 26, 2008

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 image of [...]

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Creativity Homework

March 25, 2008

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 myself some creativity [...]

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