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    Artistic Frustrations!

    Monday, March 3, 2008, 10:07 PM [General]

    I have so many ideas in my head, but I can't seem to get them on to the paper!

    I started sketching tonight and for some reason things just weren't going well at all. I haven't drawn or painted in quite a while, I admit. I took a big break from making art because I was getting frustrated with how things were going...or not going.

    I guess that this is a normal process. Well, I HOPE it's a normal process!

    Sometimes I paint and draw and get so much done and other times, like tonight it just seems to be a huge dry spell. I guess I want to express this because I start to feel sort of alone in the world when my artistic abilities sort of flutter away for a bit. I suppose they are still there, but lying dormant for the time being.

    I'm hoping this "dry spell" lifts soon.

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    oooh dry spells, how I love them so...NOT.
    I hate that feeling when it seems like your artistic talents have taken a vacation right when you have a tidal wave of ideas to give birth to.

    I hope the artistic blockage ebbs soon!

    Tangle
    March 03, 2008
    10:33 PM CST

    Perhaps the problem isn't a 'dry spell' but a 'flood' of ideas, every one encroaching on the other and getting them jumbled...

    Try this -- Close your eyes, take several deep breaths and holding them for a long five count, breathing out and in at the same interval (This calms you and allows you to focus). Then focus on a single idea for several breaths -- open your eyes and start to sketch what you see in your mind's eye.

    If you find you're having difficulty again, repeat the process until you've got that first drawing... by that time, the rest of the ideas may have ordered themselves and you can unleash them!

    Rdehwyll
    March 04, 2008
    02:01 AM CST

    Hi, You are lucky to have a talent, just think of us poor fairies who have none!!
    Blessings.

    Prince Orchar
    March 04, 2008
    03:46 AM CST

    Do you ever try and get some of your ideas out in a different way? I get so many writing ideas that I find it hard to keep track of them.

    Try drawing a mind map just of ideas, mini sketches of things you want to eventually expand on. Then you always have a base to start from.

    I think one of the previous comments probably is true - you may not be in a dry spell but just afraid that it won't just rain but it will pour - then there really can be too much to deal with.

    Blessings

    Saethryth
    March 04, 2008
    04:49 AM CST

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