In a bit of an unusual mood for me. I was meant to do a bit of drawing this weekend. That's not happened. Instead I've gone out with friends, played some basketball, done some reading and generally speaking very little creating. I think after close to three months solid of concentrating on my various projects I just really needed the breather. It's strange but I just really can't bring myself to write any words on my script, can be arsed to open up photoshop, don't want to pick up a pencil and concentrate on a drawing.
One project that I couldn't help but tinker with was the site design ever so slightly; wish I could make my comments details show up in IE (god how I loathe IE bugs, I can never get them to work out, seriously pisses me off every single time I do a redesign, something screws up in IE).
Tonight's agenda is more reading and Smallville. Hopefully this break will have energised my batteries, and I can create like crazy from tomorrow.
You really have to have down time or you will burn out.
The good artist knows when to step back and just be for awhile.
For some of us that means we have been "being" for 5 years. Hopefully I am filled up again enough to be able to create again.
Good to see you taking it easy as well as playing hard.
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I can empathize, I immersed myself in the fine arts (drawing and painting) for most of my life, and as of the last 5 years or so I havent picked up a brush or conte crayon. Ive been behind my computer doing design and code.
I seriously long to stretch out a raw canvas on my wall and smell that oil paint again. But one thing that I have taken to heart in all of this and its something that has helped a great deal. My niche so to speak as an artist is process, I LOVE process. My strength in fine art has always been gesture and composition.
Well having been away from my first love so long I came to not only realize but know and accept that being an artist is an ENTIRE creative process no matter what you put your hands to. They are all vehicles and tools you carry and use at different times in your creative life. And as my pal Chris said, there are times when you need to stop and breathe.
This brings experience and maturity to your work that people can relate to, sometimes I think "yeah great" I have this experience and things I want to say now but I havent painted in so LONG, thinking Ive lost my voice and have to start all over again. Happy to say that, the majority of the time that is not the case.
As King Solomon said, there is a time for everything under the sun.
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