Gláucia Mir | artist » creativity http://journal.glauciamir.com Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:15:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 creative desert http://journal.glauciamir.com/2009/05/creative-desert/ http://journal.glauciamir.com/2009/05/creative-desert/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 12:49:43 +0000 glaucia http://journal.glauciamir.com/?p=680 Have you been there?  I am there right now.  I know I should be creating things, but I don’t seem to be able to.  I have ideas of grandeur, but even picking up a pencil seems like too much effort.

Something in me really wants to paint and draw, but I sabotage my own efforts by [...]]]> Have you been there?  I am there right now.  I know I should be creating things, but I don’t seem to be able to.  I have ideas of grandeur, but even picking up a pencil seems like too much effort.

Something in me really wants to paint and draw, but I sabotage my own efforts by coming up with reasons why it can’t or won’t happen.

Here are some reasons:

  • I don’t have enough time to get in a zone
  • I will be interrupted by my kids
  • I don’t know what to create
  • I need to cook/clean/do the laundry
  • I don’t have a studio or a proper place to work in

If it’s not that, I end up spending too much time on the computer on facebook(which I’m currently taking a break from) or even looking at art, photography, tutorials, ideas for other projects, and I do just that– look, and don’t do or make anything.

Is anybody familiar with this behavior?  What do you do when you get there, to just kick-start your creativity?  How do you get out of the mire?  How do you overcome accomplishing much, with little time?

I think since doing the mural for the church, I have been in this creative desert.

I have been praying alot about this next step as it concerns my art and my time and efforts.  So maybe now I need to start acting…..

Would love your thoughts….

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After fiddling around with it for about an hour or so, I figured out that the coffee was not giving me the contrast I needed for a monochromatic piece.  I then picked a dark sepia colored pencil, and worked thru part of today to finish it.  I still intend to do another place tonight, but this is yesterday’s posting– belated.

I’m happy with the piece as a whole.  I enjoyed restricting myself to one color.  And although the experiment didn’t work, I’m still glad I tried.

Has anyone worked with coffee before?  I have some seen some great things, but could not reproduce the same results.  Any ideas?

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