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Is Artist's block such a thing?  We have all heard of writers block but what about all of us visual artists that have struggles.   One artist calls it the struggle bus and if that's a thing then I am definitely on it.   I still create everyday but things are not coming together for me like I want them to, so what can I do to get out of this funk.  The first thing I am going to do is take a road trip somewhere I have never been before and always wanted to go (someplace close) and I am going to observe and take photos and see if anything inspires me.  Get me out of the studio, and the gallery and do something different.  Just a relaxing fun day without worrying about what needs to be done.  I have several large shows coming up and I want to have material to be able to create paintings for them.   I think for me the next thing on my list would be taking a picture that I like and painting it 100 different ways.  Pushing the color and values, changing the structure a little and just going way out of my comfort zone.   With my current work I am tending to make the same mistakes over and over again so I think that this exercise will challenge me to think outside the box.  I take a life drawing class 2 x per month and it's always such a struggle for me.  I have never done any figurative work at all so this pushes me out of my creative boundaries and I am tending to make the same mistakes over and over in this class.  So tomorrow I have a live model session and I am going to do something way out of my norm.  I need to just do it and if I fail then I fail but I will learn from it.  So wish me luck tomorrow as I push myself to do something way out of my comfort zone.  Who knows I may fall off that bus.  Ha!!!!!

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