With this recent experience with artist’s block, I’m coming to realize that it is caused by different reasons. For some, it maybe as simple as lack of ideas, which can be remedied by taking your inner artist on an adventure. Go out to art galleries, art museums, maybe even the thrift store…anything that will tantalize the inner artist and spark a source of inspiration. Interacting with fellow artist whether on the web or in person is another great way to help fight this form of artist block. And while it can be a struggle, in time…the ideas will come to you when the moment is right.
This current form of artist’s block that I am currently experiencing is harder to work through because it is more of a mental block, an inner struggle of my artist mind. I don’t know quite how to describe other than my art started to touch on a subject matter that can best be describe as dangerous art…something that challenges us…and I don’t know if I am quite ready.
Creating art to me is much more than just applying paint to canvas. Creating art is a sacred experience. When I create art, it comes from the inner depths of my soul…it expresses things I cannot explain in word or thought in quite the way I can visually.
While the book I have on artist’s block, Fearless Creating, it good for the first form of artist block I mentioned…it doesn’t quite address what I am going through right now. It doesn’t contain exercises that would help me work through this mental block so I have been considering creating my own and sharing it here in hopes that my experience might help other artists out there that might be struggling as well.
