It's official: I'm having artist's block. Over the months, I have been sketching and drawing here and there, but I haven't sat down to do some real intensive art-making. I think I'm all stopped up from what's happened over the past few months with school. I'm not sure if I can pick up where I left off....and if I'm to start something "new", what will it be? These blocks make me feel like a part of me is dead; on the other hand, they make me feel great because there is no equivalent to the emotion you get when you break through the funk. Until that happens, I will feel the former.
Our Team-Up Coordinator told me about an art book sale that Books-A-Million was having. I went to check it out yesterday, and sure enough there were large collections of books for $5. They also had some Eric Carle (who is my hero) books which I picked up, more for myself than for the kids, I think. Definitely a purchase for myself was Raymond Briggs's The Snowman. Does anyone else remember this story? It was also made into a short film which is on youTube right here. Oh, childhood memories.
Here's to 5 days this week and then a break.
2 comments:
I know how to get through Writer's Block, but not Artist's Block.
I prefer to think of blocks as incubation. I'm sure something will hatch out of that brilliant mind of yours when the moment is right. ;-)
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