I have been bearing my artist block from last 3-4 years. No matter what I tried to paint, I just couldn’t do it. I was surely up for some commissioned wall murals and canvases now and the but none of the work came inspired from within.
Once in a while, I’ll pick up my pencil and sketch a sketch or two , may be did a few brush strokes here and there But then it didn’t continue for much longer. It was always a phase. And Nothing helped. I put a lot of pressure on myself. I pressurised myself, that I am an artist hence I am suppose to paint, which made things even worse.
But I never lost hope. I wanted to be that. I wanted to be that artist who does nothing but paint. Who see painting in everything they look at. There, there came the biggest block. To see art in everything was my ideology which was just the halfway. The complete ideology was “ to see things artistically and to do things artistically as well”. That applies to every small bit of things that you do.
When you start putting meaning in every small bits of things that you do, you eventually become an art yourself . The bigger meanings starts to show themselves to you. Hence, I started giving thoughts to the little things like what I want to eat and how I want to eat it. Clothes that I wanted to wear and in what way. What’s making me more me was my go to question to everything .
Finally, things have started to show up. I Now enjoy most of the things that I do. I try to add meaning to them. I have started to listening to myself . And funnily, it’s not hard at all and rewards to it comes in such a beautiful way.
These things Have lead me to paint as well. Even when I don’t feel like painting, I ask myself why and why not.Then I try to figure out the mood, as what kind of art I want to do today. Then I add medium to that imagination and once I finalise, I do it with all my heart.
And that brings me to share a beautiful creation of mine that I did.
Would love to hear what you guys think about it :)