I need more stock.

Posted on May 23, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Anxiety, Art, Artists block, Canvases, miniature painting, Necklaces, Paintings, stall, Time, Worried2 Comments

I’m doing a craft fair soon but I haven’t replaced the paintings I have sold with new ones. I need to get my act together and paint. I just feel a bit down. This has been going on for weeks. I think its artists block? I know why, lots of thoughts on my mind and anxieties, so I prevaricate because I don’t want to get things wrong. I’m fine when things are going OK, but sometimes I let things get on top of me. I will try and sort my mind out this week! Then hopefully I will have new work to show you…..

Owlish

Posted on April 16, 2023April 16, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artists block, Canvases, Craft fairs, Crafts, Fine Art, Life, miniature, Owls, Painting, small, Thinking8 Comments

A small turquoise and blue painting of two owls I painted a few years ago. I want to do a few more like this, semi realistic but with a bit of quirkiness.

I’ve got a small craft table in June and I need to restock my paintings. I’ll post about the craft fair soon.

I’m asking for suggestions for small paintings, ideas for new pictures? These will be matchbox sized or slightly bigger. I need to do some paintings of bees on flowers. I painted giraffes against sunsets. I might add some metallic paint again.

I just want to get going. But I’m a bit blocked mentally at the moment. I look at me easle and think, tomorrow? But that begins tomorrow again…. Life is strange.

Get my brushes out

Posted on October 12, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Artists block, Brushes, Colours, Darkness, Light, Painting, prism, Rainbows, ThinkingLeave a comment

I feel guilty that I haven’t painted. I think I need to get my brushes out. Painting is my reason for being. It’s not negotiable, I have to paint, or at least draw. It will happen, I’m just not sure when. As the days get darker I always find it more difficult, especially painting under artificial light. By the way, I must have a hundred brushes around the house, I think they multiply when I’m not looking!

I was looking for an image to use for this post and found this. Where the light through prisms in the mobile in my window was casting rainbows on these brushes. I hope I don’t get artists block, sometimes I just can’t paint…

February dragons

Posted on November 28, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, art block, Artists block, Depression, Life, Pandemic, Sketching, Thinking, TimeLeave a comment

Looking back at my sketchbook I found this from February this year. I think I was going put more then. Going for walks and not exactly seeing people but socialising more.

Then I pulled a calf muscle and it really knocked me back. I am seeing a lot less people and turning into a recluse. My walking consists of going to the shops a couple of times a day. This weekend I actually went to my art group meeting. I was trying to finish a dog painting and I used it as an excuse to get out the house and do some art. I think that has helped me break out a bit. My mojo needs to be released again!

Got some new canvases.

Posted on June 8, 2020June 8, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artists block, Canvases, Fun, Garden, Landscape art, New canvas, Painting, Pictures, Want to paint the gardenLeave a comment

Excited to have got some new canvases. I hope to get out in the garden and paint from real life. The weather is not really good enough for it at the moment. We are having heavy showers so I would need cover to keep dry. If the weather improves I will try….

One day I might be able to exhibit my art again and I would like to have some new work ready for that.

I’d say ‘watch this space’ , but it might be better to say ‘don’t hold your breath!’

Get on and finish it!

Posted on March 15, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artists block, Cleaning, Design, Frustrating, Help, Kingfisher, Life, Painting, Spring cleaningLeave a comment

This has been hidden behind envelopes and letters for weeks, artists block holding me tight in its grip. So why is it uncovered? Is there going to be a spurt in activity? No, spring cleaning, removing piles of old letters and finding things to shred or burn…. And I cleaned the cooker, cleaned the bathroom sink, did the washing up, cleaned the fridge, the sink in the kitchen, wiped the walls down and… Still didn’t paint, despite having things to do…. My bum needs a good kicking!

Must get my brushes out

Posted on March 13, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artists block, Blogging, Brushes, Depression, Life, Need to paint, Painting6 Comments

I admit, this week I should have painted. But I’ve found a colouring Web site where you sit and ‘colour by numbers’.

I want to get on with things, but with everything that is going on in the world I think I’ve got a bit down again. I need to paint.

So tomorrow, I’m going to try and get my act together and start painting again.

Make me paint!

Posted on March 11, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artists block, Blogging, Life, Painting, Thinking, Writing2 Comments

_20190310_022442 I need to paint. I’ve had a break, partly self enforced because I was busy and tired and lost my way in doing other things like blogging, plus it’s been winter and it’s too cold and dark. I was doing lots of things as hobbies too. But I’m nervous of spending too much of dwindling resources. I’m scared of putting a toe back into the world of work. I want to be helping people as well as painting.

The cliff edge is looming and I want to take a step back. Writing here is allowing me to explore ideas and thoughts that I have never been able to do before. It’s all very gentle and kind and I’m afraid I’ve found a cosy space that allows my dreams, but perhaps I have to let go and try harder in the real world. I’m saying I’m an experimenting artist so I need to do that….. Give art a chance.

Painting

Posted on March 5, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Artists block, Creativity, Life, Painting, Poem, Poetry, Rescue, Stuck, SubduedLeave a comment

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Sometimes my creative juices freeze

then like a bird I flit and flitter

from one path to another

sit and shiver.

Like a lonely lark.

Sometimes they thaw

but not enough

so the thought is there

but cannot reach from my brain

through my heart

to my hands.. ..

In other times my mind is woken,

colours flow

shapes fly from my fingers

hot sharp ideas stagger me with their invention.

Later, all is quiet again.

The mood has stormed its way through me.

Calm descends and I am lost in fog again.

Mallaband-Brown

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