This week’s topic for Studio Friday February 16th: Drawing a blank!

It’s one of the most feared events in the life of an artist. Sometimes it can take a long time to overcome this sudden stop of the creative juices. What do you do? How do you act and react? How do you get back to splashing around in all colours? Do you fight it or work with it?

One really good thing with working in many different materials and genre like I do, are that I seldom or never have a totally stop of creative flow. Of course I sometimes have a hard time too get started. It happens when I have to think a lot on how I will do something and can’t decide how I will make it. But when I get stuck in one thing I most of the time only change project and work with something else. I have always ideas of stuff I want to do. But for example, if I have a lot at work I sometimes get problems with focus on my project when I come home from work. But that I don’t call a stop, it’s more that I’m not in the mood. And then I give it a day or two and then I’m back on track working again.

Like now for example: I’m working with wool embroidery. I made the pattern Sunday but didn’t feel 100% sure that I found it perfect. Therefore it took med five days before I could start sew on it because I hade to think, and rethink again. But now I have started to sew. I don’t call that a stop, I only don’t like rushing things out.

If I have problems with my ideas I surf some of the blogs I like, looking true my notebooks and old ideas that I don’t had time to carry out get. That always helps too.

I’m feeling happy that I don’t have had any bigger stops or totally meltdown in my creative work. I guess that I probably will experience it sometime or somewhere. Don’t we all do that?

Or maybe I should put down the spade and just rest and don’t create or work with any projects fore a while sometime? I don’t really know? Have to think about that…