the ideas are there awaiting my canvas yet i can not seem to find that passion that guides my brush! any other artists out there have any tips for me?...i think part of the problem is that i dont really know any other artists :P

I understand. I lost my keys. any help would be appreciated.....

I would give anything to be where you are. My muse wont shut the fock up!!

Back away from your project for a while. Stop chasing for a bit and let IT come to you.

What keys??....you ride a fookin bicycle.

Try music too n dont think bout it too too much it will come to u then never chase always wait x

Me being a musician, when I hit a dry spell, I have a specific pandora station that plays ALL music, not just the type I listen to and not the type I normally play. You would be surprised what type of inspiration you get when you are looking at your project through different eyes.

(or in my case, listening to your project through different ears)

Hope it helps. :)

Let the canvas guide you.

Check your purse. That's where I usually find mine.

i know zero artists.
well my brother paints but he's not around.
i just wait til i'm on a high.
you'll need a mental disorder of sorts for this method to work.

Or a beard?

nah.
those don't do it for me.

You need a lubricant.

Some known lubricants to oil the stuck wheels from turning:

1. Love. Falling in love.

2. Inspiration.

3. Coffee.

4. For painters, particularly, absynthe.

5. For musicians, acid and LSD.

6. For writers, a good night's sleep and having done the laundry and knowingly so.

7. For actors, a contract.

8. For dancers, the hope of having Rudolph Nureyev or Karen Kaine come up to stage and stuff a hundred dollar bill in the leotard or moo-moo.

9. For singers, a slap on the face and being showered with cold water, while yelling at them, "baby, you're on stage in ten minutes!!" The first time this was tested and found to work was with Leon Cavallo in a double-blind test with Ray Charles and Charles D'Aznavour.

10. For choreographers of sex movies and for documentary writers, a good sense of what reality is for other, normal people.

I am not an artist, I make models, and sometimes I find tackling something more simple can help, leaving the more creative and difficult until later, it gives me the motivation.

thanks for the advice everyone! im gunna hit a gallery opening tonight so maybe getting out of the studio and just checking out others art will help

Hi Chinchilla : I Have had artistic block s before as an Artist Gotcha Seeking Muse back :
Get Out & See The Beauty in All Thinks :
Think NOT About It
Makes It Worse :
I Find : I Focus On " Other " Things Listen to music etc .. Positive stuff Help s Me ..
It Will Flow When It s Ready :)
Good Luck

Annashe

Hi Chinchilla : I Have had artistic block s before as an Artist Gotcha Seeking Muse back :
Get Out & See The Beauty in All Thinks :
Think NOT About It
Makes It Worse :
I Find : I Focus On " Other " Things Listen to music etc .. Positive stuff Help s Me ..
It Will Flow When It s Ready :)
Good Luck

Annashe

When in doubt, whip it out. I mean.....Ooppps! Wrong thread!

Nothing inspires an artist more than a broken heart. If that's not possible then I count on the pen or the brush instead of the mind to do the work for me.

In that case, I'm an artist (or so people keep telling me).