Artist's Block

I am in the painting doldrums lately - a total lack of creative ideas and inspiration. Sometimes it's good to become a blob for awhile and not try  to force the return of the "muse". Other suggestions I have heard include:


* Pull out all your old resources and review them with a fresh eye.
* Take out some old paintings, that with some judicious cropping and editing may get  you started again.
* Look in the dictionary for inspiration
* Think of what makes you angry, happy, or sad and just start to paint.
* Put on some music, and let it inspire you.
* Think of a favorite poem, novel or film and try to indicate it's appeal for you in paint.
* For fun and mabye a kickstart go online to the abstract art title generator at  http://noemata.net/pa/titlegen/
* Visit a gallery and just soak it in which I recently did at the special exhibition of Abstract Expressionism   from New York at the Art Gallery of Ontario



  See Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and others from May 5 to August 7, 2011


*Of course the best advice is just to pick up a brush and put paint to paper - something usually happens - see below - (no Pollock, me!)



Unblocked


Now that I'm unblocked, I hope to see you at the summer show of the Willowdale Group of artits:




MAGICAL WORLD OF COLOUR



The Paper Mill Gallery – Todmorden Mills


June 29th – July 10th


See WWW. WGA.ca for details