Going through a dry spell...
This is my desk. It's been like that since I left.
I came home and I made lots of new jewelry but my painting desk is still like that. The only thing that has changed is that I filled with the brush holder with water and I brought a bottle of tea. I don't know what's happening to me. I came home fulled of energy from the show and lots of plans an ideas, even a box full of old books to make more beeswaxed pieces but now I feel like the ideas and the energy dissipated with the everyday chores and now I'm not able to create a single thing again. I know it's a phase, maybe tomorrow I will feel like creating again. Maybe I'm just depressed because I'm here alone again missing my friends and my family. Maybe I'm just getting sick. I don't think I run out of ideas. I have plenty. I just don't feel like doing anything... have you ever felt like that? How did you overcome it?
Esta es mi mesa. Tal y como la deje antes de irme.
Regrese a casa, hice muchisima joyeria pero mi mesa de pintar sigue igual. Lo unico que ha cambiado es que llene mi bote de brochas con agua y puse una botella de te. No se que es lo que me pasa, llegue llena de energia de mi exposicion, compre una caja de libros viejos para mis encausticos pero siento que las ideas y la energia se han disipado con la vida diaria y siento que no puedo crear nada. Se que es una fase, tal vez mañana me sienta con ganas de crear. Tal vez estoy deprimida porque mi familia y amigos se quedaron atras, tal vez me estoy enfermando, pero definitivamente creo que no se me han acabado las ideas. Tengo muchas. Pero no me siento con ganas de crear nada nuevo.... Se han sentido asi alguna vez? Como lograron salir de ahi?
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This is exactly what happens to me before I get sick!
FX it's just a little cold and that's all :))
Wishing you lots of luck and beautiful creative energy!
Personally, I go through phases where I create like mad (jewelry, paper art), and then I quiet down and don't create anything new for at least a month--excluding the ideas that I ruminate over, which may or may not come to fruition.
I know after preparing for a show I have mixed feelings Happy/Sad...and a week later I am back at it! Remember we all need a break!
After my December crash, I started painting again, and this year really have found my own voice and style emerging. You've already found yours, but I believe your mind, body, and soul and prepping for the next phase of your creative journey. Can't wait to see where it leads you.
Te deseo mucho ánimo. Que te den mucho cariñito y tú misma date un capricho, mímate y ya verás como pasa.
Besitos!
My husband works 15 hours days rising at 3:30 am and leaving by 4:30 and I am lucky if he is home by 7PM. I know about lonely now that I am retired...thus ART....currently he is working 7 days a week leaves me a lot of time to play with my art. I have so much to learn so that helps but yes, I sometimes feel like just lying with my doggies under the electric blanket, cuz it is so cold here right now for California. I have noticed in the last 2 weeks I am in this blue phase and I don't like any of my work phase I clean mys studio...The thing here is I start discovering things I didn't finish that suddenly seem exciting or new products and suddenly my studio is half cleaned and my hands are dirty again!
Hugs, Diana