One thing that’s really interesting about a blog to me is its serial quality. In my artwork, there are very few images that I’ve done that aren’t part of a series. Creating a pretext for a large (or small) body of work, can be a great assist in keeping the creative process alive. In a current movie, a woman decides to prepare 400+ recipes in 365 days. It’s a great motivator, and when ideas and inspiration run short, a simple recommitment to the original goal will overcome the creative block.
In my current series The Weekly Press, I committed to completing 1000 images. There was no time frame set, but the shear quantity meant that I would be with it for a while. I wanted to have a lot of elbow room to explore new ideas and new techniques. What happened was that just about a third of the way through, I started seeing patterns that I wasn’t aware of from piece to piece. This information gave me ideas for more images: work with what I’ve been avoiding.
Then another breakthrough at just about midway point: it dawned on me that I was creating the raw material for a time-based artwork. Now I’m working with images with more intention to accentuate the connectedness that they didn’t always have before.
So, creating a series for yourself to work on will guarantee a creative streak. Do a series of cloud drawings, or all pink images. Do one a day for a month and see what happens. If you watch yourself closely, one idea will turn into ten.