The art of Connecting with your Muse
Anyone in the field of art or design will tell you that there are days when they don’t feel very creative. That can be scary. If your rent relies on you churning out new work, it can be very stressful to go through times where you just don’t want to even think about your art, never mind actually make anything. Especially if those days stretch into weeks! Even for those who practice art solely for their own pleasure will begin to feel the drag on their life without the joy of “making” in it. I had a teacher once who told his students never to let a day go by without practicing your art. Does that sound exhausting? What if it’s just sketching your ideas – big loose, messy sketches? Too much? Maybe it’s just scrolling though the many color palettes on the Pantone site? There have been some days where scrolling has been all the creative energy I could muster. But then something a specific color combination was plucked from the pages and stored in some small compartment in my tiny ...