- It's the worry of not being able to do it that is making you feel you've lost your inspiration. To get rid of the worry, you must approach your painting as if it were a job and plan to DO IT.
- Set a goal of completing "X" number of paintings within a specified time frame. (Week/Month/Year)
- Try changing media. If acrylic, go to oil. If oil, go to printmaking. If watercolor, go to mixed media.
- Search for new artists on the web, using Google's image search. Go to artist galleries. Try to find an artist who's doing something that interests you, something that sparks your interest to say, "I could to that" or "I'd like to be able to do that." Find out what that artist did and how. What inspired them?
- Visit your public library or borrow books from an artist friend on creative thinking to give you a jolt. You can also refer to the SGVA Blog for tips and their sharing library.
- Consider a trip to somewhere you've never been, even if it's only to a local town you've never explored. Remember to take your sketchbook, everywhere you go. Or your digital camera.
- Keep your own journal of drawings and writings for a month. You may want to pick something from the journal to paint or put it away, then review it in six months or a year.
- Compile a scrapbook of your favorite family portraits -- not just faces, but each family member doing something ordinary -- a "candid" sketch with writing about the person, the time, your impressions.
- Consider taking a class that forces you to produce in a structured environment.
(Dr. Janet Montgomery, About.com)
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