Leisure Painter

Ignite your imagination

Sometimes, in amongst all the painting and creating, I run out of oomph. I’m not necessarily blocked, but bored, and any ideas that I have, I just don’t fancy bringing to life. It can also feel as if all the ideas that I normally think are fabulous, seem rather drab. Does this happen to you? If it does, take the opportunity to relax, play and ignite your imagination.

We have all heard the usual advice on how to encourage the creative juices to flow – take a break, get outside, go for a walk or exercise – but what happens when we then sit at our desks, still uninspired and still unable to make a forward move on our work? Here are my top ten ways to ignite the imagination:

1 A different colour palette

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