Artist Problems: Creative Burnout

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We've all been there. That moment when we've reached a creative road block that we just can't seem to find our way around. Join me as I share some of the best ways I've found to dig yourself out of those creative ruts and get back into the groove of artistic creativity!

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[stephanieh]

LMAO, whoever doesn't watch through to the very end of these videos is really missing out!

[rainerburmeister]

Finally a new artist problem. Missed them so much. Thanks!

[mjpete]

Hullo Mike, I have a different recommendation for breaking out of your “normal” routine. In 2015 I was recovering from a stroke. I asked my Dr. For help getting my dexterity back. She recommended an occupational therapist who told me to take up Art! I had to tell her I was an Artist and there were few mediums that I had not already worked with. She said that I needed a challenge to activate the part of my brain and using a new way of working/seeing the world around me. I had never used soft pastels, I had done a sidewalk project but that is NOT soft pastels! I believe going back to a beginner level. Starting over as a newcomer helped me reactivate my brain and started a new chapter in my art journey and now I am working again in my most favorite medium of watercolor as well as pastels! I was also reluctant to work with the messy medium of pastels, but I have and I am working quite cleanly! It truly just takes preparation and dedication to reduce the dust floating about! Here’s hoping that someone can benefit from the idea of breaking into a new to them medium. Keep creating and sharing your ideas with us. I would still like to see a practical exercise video using water soluble oil paints and Chelsea Lavender Products! Working with the fat as well as the lean mixtures and keeping the paints water soluble! The cleaner is not as important, but seeing the brush soap in action is! I hope this leads you to a new video topic and I look forward to watching your next video. Til then be safe and take care out there!

[libbysmithstudio]

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[golden]

Everyone make sure you watch COMPLETELY to the END! Swatch journal wonderful. Nothing like that I have found in the UK. I love your videos.

[theartsypixie]

The new Hawaii five O always gets my watercolor painting going. The Queens greatest hits album always gets my woodworking kicked up. My family and my favorite piece of art that I ever created was an inspired monochromatic inspired by the song the sound of silence. Music is very inspiring.

[pattid]

I am using the painters diary. I bought two. I swatch all my paints: by pan sets, by tubes arranged by pigments. It’s a great resource for me! I use it when planning out the paints I want to use for a project. I love the baby diary!!! Will have to get that! I paint the same piece in a different medium also. Thanks for this video!

[lynnquast]

I just love your videos!!! Always so real & helpful!!!

[jenniferhunter]

Hi Mike! Just wanted to let you know that I appreciate your sense of humor. ALSO, I could never use soft pastels and charcoal I must use in pencil form. Getting dust on my hands is not going to happen. So I appreciate that about you, too. It actually took me years to try oil painting just because of the mess. But water soluble oils saved the day for me. Thanks for the great videos!!

[jessicalarson]

Thx for doing these videos. I love watching them and they always help me. I Love to laugh along with ya guys as well. Hope you and the whole staff have a blessed new year!

[lstchcglch]

Hi Mike, Your video and comments are really helpful. I'm inclined to disagree about 'taking a time out'...as we know all artists (like all people) are different and for me I find 'taking a time out' to be extremely helpful....especially when I've been working on a series of some sort. (I work predominantly in transparent w/color...sometimes with some pen work and sometimes without). Recently I've thought of doing a complete palette makeover: new colors, new arrangement of paint on my palette, etc. This goes along with your idea of changing up your perspective/environment. Maybe rearranging your studio...etc. Thanks again for your video(s) and I do order from and like Jerry's: great products and super service to my home here in SW Idaho. Best to you, Glen

[Msannamitta]

yup happened to me artist burn out. Ill invent things related to my art journey because i love building things with my hands so yah i really get what your talking about.

[lisaowen]

I've been wanting to draw a contour drawing of a still life. To jazz up my drawing skills.
Another idea is just do some basic mark making. Sometimes I listen to music when doing art. Change your usual record . These things can lead you on a different path. It could spark a new direction in your art. And don't worry about wasting, ink, paper, paint, canvas, or other artist supplies . That's why we shop at Jerry's . We can always get more.🎨😁

[lorisewsstuff]

I have been living on a tight budget for so long. But I love art! So I decided to take up watercolor painting. (I'm a total noob.) Now that I've seen how much supplies cost I'm plagued with cost anxiety. I love that Arches paper but I don't want to ruin a bunch of it just learning stuff. I keep getting told to buy the best I can afford so I don't wind up trying to correct problems that have nothing to do with me. That makes it worse. I hate to waste money. Then I got a bit of advice that is genius - think SMALL. Either small pads or a sheet cut into small pieces. A big pad costs a lot but the cost of 1 tiny piece is negligible. Then something really amazing happened. Instead of trying to shrink a whole landscape into a 5" space, I wind up focusing on one tree or a flower and the rest of the forest is just the background. I think I was trying to do too much. It's like thinking small has removed a lot of distractions I didn't know I had. That's keeping me from giving up. Buying supplies is less intimidating and I have a different perspective to boot.

And, Yes! I do want the baby bear color diary.😆

[reneecailloux]

Harry Potter audiobooks do it for me. Just listening to them, I'm somewhere else and I know them so well that I don't really need to listen. It's just the perfect ambiance to make me do "magic";-)

[ivonneirias]

I don’t have a block or a burn out. My issue is that with health and physical issues, I have nowhere that I can more easily or readily work. Having a dog that can throw hair all over the place and only place I might be able to work in a rented apt, is the living room. So haven’t been able to paint at all. Did I mention I work with watermixable oils? Yeah, no easy way to dispose dirty water, clean brushes or dispose of unused semi dry pigments

[theartsypixie]

I step away from painting and move to another medium like wood carving, leatherwork, ephemera making etc. Btw the papercrafting is mindless creativity that i have found to act like a plunger for creativity block. It allows you to mindlessly mass make and create some pretty nice stuff. A huge creativity system used in its geli printing so your just bring loose free and random with no sumi e stroke rules or is it leam over fat ot fat over lean rules 😉