Moody Days - Get Inspired
I have to admit that there are times when I’m feeling at a loss as to what I want to paint. As a still life artist, for the most part, I find interest in “things”. But during uninspired times I look around at all my still life items and none of them jump out to me. I’m sure it is just a “mood thing” but if I’m not able to break out of it, I will go to the internet for inspiration. I scroll through photos and other artists to get the creativity unlocked and find it helpful to see all the beautiful artwork online. Therefore, sometimes inspiration comes from without, not within, and it does the trick and I start to look at my own objects with new eyes.
But other times I just need to paint, something, to get me re-inspired and out of the blocks, so to speak. So instead of setting up a still life of my own I will find a photo on Unsplash.com and paint it to open up my creativity. Unsplash is a website full of free photos that are available for people to use however they want.
Here is what the Unsplash website says:
Is it really free? Yes.
Unsplash is a platform powered by an amazing community that has gifted hundreds of thousands of their own images to fuel creativity around the world. So sign up for free, or don’t. Either way, you’ve got access to over 3 million images under the Unsplash license—which makes them free to do-whatever-you-want with.
And so, on occasion the generosity of this website gets my paint brush moving again and my creativity as well. Below, I posted one of the paintings that I did from a photo that I found on their website by Olga KHARLAMOVA.
Find whatever way you can to get re-inspired when those moody days hit and nothing seems to spark your creativity. It might mean looking through magazines or going outside and observing nature or visiting a museum. There is something that will ignite the passion of art within you, so don’t give up.
