Basically, by the end of the summer I'd committed the cardinal sin of art-making: no half-finished projects to work on.  I usually make sure to have something smallish and half-finished at all times, and that way I can keep my hands moving if I run into a little bit of a creative lull.  The work just seems to flow from one piece to the next when I do that, but if I've got to start something from scratch, that requires a lot more creative energy.  When I don't have anything I can easily pick up and work on (especially if I'm not feeling particularly motivated), that leads to me not getting anything done.  I've been working the last couple of weeks, but mostly headed down dead-ends.  It's been pretty frustrating.  I've been in full-on Info Consume Mode for the last month, hoping to find something to jolt me into eager productivity, but with little luck.

Finally though, I got frustrated, irritated, and just plain angry enough waiting around for the Muse to appear that I hung out a sign telling her to sit and spin, I've got work to do.  I've had an 18" x 24" copper plate laying around for nearly a year now that I've been procrastinating working on, so I grabbed it and a china marker yesterday, and got down to business.  I've had the idea in my head for a while now (and no time to really work on it), and it felt great to get it out of my head and laid down on the copper.  Perhaps having a full-blown idea sitting in my head for that long was constipating my creativity.  Now I'm kind of irritated that I have to wait until Tuesday to work on that plate again!  It'll probably be until November until I have anything to show for my work, but I'll try to find some other art before then so that I can post again (one of my previously unwritten rules is to try not to post if I don't have anything to show).

I think that about covers what I needed to cover.  Catch you next time!

c.