Creative block : get unstuck : discover new ideas [Krysa, D. (2014). ]
Many Idaes from the book Creative block : get unstuck
Creative unBlock
Project No. 01
Draw something on a piece of paper. Stare at it.
Trash it. Draw it again on arother piece of paper.
Dane at it. Trash it. Repeat. Orce you feel you’re done, ungrumple all the preces of paper and line them up in order
ARIAN BEHZADI
Creative unBlock
Project No. 08
Visit a thrift store and buy an old magazine and an old book. Take them home, chop them up, and make five new collages.
ANTHONY ZINONOS
Creative unBlock
Project No. 15
Creativity thrives when we are given restric-tions. Ask someone to write a story about anything and they’ll wallow in indecision.
Ask them to write one page about their first pet in less than three minutes, and the story will start to flow. Create an original image in less than thirty minutes based on one of the metaphors below, one from Shakespeare’s As You Like It, and one attributed to Groucho Marx. Don’t worry about the outcome, just get it done.
Creative unBlock
Project No. 34
Choose one thing you love to draw or paint (and feel comfortable drawing or painting) already: an animal, object, a person, what-ever. For thirty days, draw or paint that thing thirty different ways, a different way every day. You can use different mediums, expres-sions, positions, colors, whatever. Each day, push yourself to do something much different than the day before, but keep the subject the same. See how keeping one element constant (in this case, the “thing” you love to draw or paint) can allow you to break out creatively in other ways.
LISA CONGDON
Creative unBlock
Project No. 39
Okay, this challenge is one I’ve given myself many times, and every time it has inspired something new: Do a painting that is nothing like anything you would usually do. Make marks that feel awkward, use colors you would never reach for, use materials you don’t necessarily know what to do with, dare to go against what you know. If you are an artist who works a lot, you’ve probably developed a certain style that is unmistakably yours. Your creative muscle has become strong, maybe overbearing. It’s time to stretch! Try to do something that no one would recognize as yours, that people would look at and say, “Really? You did this?” (And they need not mean it as a compliment!)
This exercise always helps me break out when I’m feeling bored by myself. It has radically changed my work many times over the years, and I’m counting on it to continue doing so.
The rolling stone gathers no moss.
FIONA ACKERMAN
It is when I find myself playing more than trying that I find my way out of a block. —ARIS MOORE
Jc-What advice would you give to your younger self about getting out of a creative block?
AZ-I’ve learned to reassure myself that all I have to do is sit back and patiently wait, or step away from all things art related for a while. It is so easy to get caught up with what you’re working on. By stepping away, it gives you a chance to put things into perspective, and realize that it’s not actually the end of the world. So, I would tell the younger me, “Don’t worry or stress about it; take some time out and do or think about something totally different. The block will always pass, leaving behind some magical inspiration.”
ANTHONY ZINONOS
REF
Krysa, D. (2014). Creative block : get unstuck : discover new ideas : advice and projects from 50 successfu artists. San Francisco, California: Chronicle Books Llc.