Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Thank you, Flux Pavillion....I Can't Stop.







































Taking my own advice from the previous post, I decided I needed a little trip out of the house. Driving around has always been very cathartic for me. I usually have the windows down and the motion of the wind starts blowing my hair around. Something about this physical manifestation of fluid motion, starts to slowly translate into mental fluidity. There is something almost hypnotic about it. I start to think more deeply...almost like entering a meditative state. So after I had driven around for awhile, I came home and decided I would listen to some music...as the article also suggested. My youngest son is very good at mixing music and has been mixing and listening to a lot of dubstep over the last year. I have become a huge fan.   Today the result was this painting which I created while listening to a loop of I Can't Stop by Flux Pavillion.

Artist's Block...

I have got a serious case of artist's block going on today, and it is so weird because I have been on such a roll lately. My oldest son came home for a visit and we batted around some new ideas for awhile. I actually came up with some new stuff that I am pretty excited about. More about that later. But, after he left, nothing....probably a correlation there. In my search to unblock I came across an article by Jacques van Heerden on inspiredm.com, which suggests the following ways to unblock.







10 Ways to UNBLOCK your Creativity:

1.  Doodle in your sketchbook
2. Visit inspirational websites
3. Take a walk
4. Search for new fonts
5. Stop doubting yourself
6. Get away for a day or two
7. Take your work to the nearest coffee shop
8. Go out with some friends
9. Listen to some music
10. Follow some tutorials