{"id":29,"date":"2025-12-29T13:54:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/asketchylife\/?p=29"},"modified":"2026-01-01T21:12:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:12:50","slug":"born-again-creative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/asketchylife\/2025\/12\/29\/born-again-creative\/","title":{"rendered":"Born again Creative"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been dormant for many years as a creative, no sketching painting or sculpting. I think I\u2019m not alone in this creative void, this shapeless, object less and colourless plain. No texture no smells of oils, thinners, no feeling the wet paints on my hands the brush colliding with the pallet swirling around searching for inspiration and hoping it will release itself onto the canvas\u2026? Trial and error trial and error trial and\u2026.. eventually something nearing my vision, oh yes that\u2019s it the right shade and perspective I think?. But I\u2019ll probably have to check again in half an hour or so, viewing from different positions in the room.<\/p>\n

My partner can paint a huge canvas in a couple of sitting\u2019s, not me! I need weeks and weeks, eons\u2026\u2026. \u00a0 \u00a0She is openly emotional about her work maybe that helps the creative flow move a bit damned quicker!<\/p>\n

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\"Damnation

Damnation and struggle<\/p><\/div>\n

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I\u2019ve been dormant for many years as a creative, no sketching painting or sculpting. I think I\u2019m not alone in this creative void, this shapeless, object less and colourless plain. No texture no smells of oils, thinners, no feeling the wet paints on my hands the brush colliding with the pallet swirling around searching for\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","category-the-beginning-i-think"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/asketchylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/asketchylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/asketchylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/asketchylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/asketchylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/asketchylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/asketchylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/asketchylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/asketchylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/asketchylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}