I have many of these when im either drawing painting or even writing .. when i do i go play a game called Majongg.. it helps me to rest that creative part of the brain and to use the logic part ..

what do you do when you have a mental block .. i need some more ideas as im getting too good at the game and its not a challenge any more

umm Artists LOL i will recommend you a Very good book called The artists way By Julia cameron

With the basic principle that creative expression is the natural direction of life, Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan lead you through a comprehensive twelve-week program to recover your creativity from a variety of blocks, including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions, and other inhibiting forces, replacing them with artistic confidence and productivity.
This book links creativity to spirituality by showing how to connect with the creative energies of the universe, and has, in the four years since its publication, spawned a remarkable number of support groups for artists dedicated to practicing the exercises it contains

i love the book every artist should have this book and work though it!
am in a 25 year long artists Block LOL
there is a wesite that goes though it with you step by step from THE artists way book! the link is if u like it then u can get the book

http://painting.about.com/library/blartist...?once=true&

Thanks hun it looks like a good book to have so i have added it to my christmas pressy liste .. some one will buy it for me i hope .. if not it will be a pressy i buy for myself

Sweet let me know how it goes!

sure will hun im a spritual person any way so i will find it very interesting to read

I listen to classical music, not only does it inspire me but it relaxes me too.
RJS

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I listen to classical music, not only does it inspire me but it relaxes me too.
RJS
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yeah i know where u are coming from! its good to do we need need it in this world

When I was young I had mental blocks.
Now I find I'm just too busy to have them.

Its like being shy.
I was shy until it became too much of a barrier to accomplish the goal.
At that time is was teaching... hard to teach when you can't get up in front of people no?
So I know longer had time to be shy.
It was simply too much of a nuisance.

Occasionally I'll slip back into the earlier mode and for no apparent reason... BAM! I'll feel that way again.
Stagefright anybody?

Mental blocks are similar.
The more you concentrate on the mental block the more you'll see mental block.
Get out! Do something different! Explore your world!

Then take that back and put it on paper.
You can have a mental block tomorrow.

(I should only practice what I preach)

Rodney

im shy

Riiiigggght.
Hey did I tell you I'm president of a nation?
Perhaps you've heard of it?

The isle of 'Image in'



Hey... gimme a break... I just thought of that on the fly.
Image... Imagine... Imagination...
Get it?
<sigh>
nevermind.

really truelly honest yup yup im very very shy in person in here its easy to chat to people because you dont have to face them..

Well, it seems as though everytime I read your post Woo, I'm facing you! Isn't that your picture beside every post?

I was never really shy. I could strike up a conversation about anything with anybody, and usually do it just break the boredom or monotony of a situation. Waiting in lines, or looking for stuff on a grocery shelf, etc.. I'll tell you what I found though. People really take an interest when you notice them. Sometimes I've ended up meeting the nicest people who were very influential and wouldn't have known it had I not spoke up when I did.

Eric

yes that be me in the photo was taken last year it was for a project i was doing at the time .. but actually face to face with people im very coy and stumble on my words ...

"Mental blocks" Gee are you guys saying there is something wrong with them?It is my favorite passtime!

by the smiley im guessing you get a few of those two .. metal blocks that is

I hate mental blocks. I take them as a sign to put down my pencil for a day or so and distract myself with something else

thats pretty much the best thing to do .. it gives your brain a rest and time for you to think about it

Yeah. It's either that or ending up snapping my pencils in frustration

i understand where ya coming from

have you ever tried talking through the problem .. even if its to yourself .. i know it sounds weaird but sometimes i find it helps

Thats a great solution too.
Once they are snapped sharpen them both and then draw with two hands!

If you were drawing a... Mental Block...
What exactly would it look like?

Hmmm.... <one very small wheel starts turning>

oo thats spooky i was just thinking about that the other day .. i keep visulising a metal block on a white table ... when i see this topic .. do you think its time i need some proffesional help ....

Often I don't know what the problem is. I can have an idea, but I can't for the life of me put it down on paper. I lose totally ability to draw for a day or so, all I can do is sit it out

Other times I simply can't get an idea

When I get a mental block, I go out for a walk and study the landscape and think of what happened there before I was there in that place.
I ended up studying celtic history through landscape interpretation on an environmental course I did.
Just by going for walks after a mental block. Helps create a new insperation. by finding out something in my surroundings I did not know was there to begin with and draw it. Past and present.

P.s Eric a Whisky Bond is a sealed wharehouse that nobody under the age of 18 years can work in. The bonding is to allow the control of spirit into and out of the bottling hall in a manner fitting to Her Majesties Customs and Excise Officers to allow revenue to be collected on each litre of Alcohol.

Woo Waves,
Vikings, Celts and the Beach Boys. Never bothered with waves they just surfed the ontop of them. He He.

Thanks for the warm welcome.

Andy.

I think that a mental block should look like The Scream by Edvard Munch, thats how i think of it.
RJS

oo beach boys .. *dances*

Ok I have an idea. Everyone do a quick sketch of what your idea of a mental block looks like. No matter how silly you think it may be, draw it and post it. Don't worry too much about detail or getting things just right. Just do a quickie...

Ok, here is my version of a mental block, though i was sorely tempted to post a blank sheet of paper!!

RJS

this bad of an artist .. i couldnt think of what a mental block would look like .. i really did have a mental block just blank.. i sat here with this vacant look on my face .. my partner thought i looked constipated

Mental Block, rodins the thinker but pulling his hair out.

Damn! I just got a mental block on how I could depict a mental block!

I had it right on the tip of my ... what was I thinking of?/!//

I hate it when this happens!!!

whan what happenes

When I get these mental blocks!

jugs ??????

... of beer ... remember? We were talking about jugs of beer!

Why all the funny faces???

i have no words for that

I could have drew this,but coping was so much easier.

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Ok, Tehobu. Who are you calling a "Blockhead"?

Hey,me call no one blockhead,no one me say