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Pam W
We are visiting a former exchange student and her family. They brought wonderful gifts when they visited us, what can I bring them?
Answer
Something distinct to your region of the country. For example, if you're from New England... some maple candies, real maple syrup or a coffee table book that shows the nature & different seasons. If you're from a beach area, a seashell picture frame with a pic of her with your family while she was in school.
Remember, for something like this, the $$$ isn't as important as the sentiment.
Something distinct to your region of the country. For example, if you're from New England... some maple candies, real maple syrup or a coffee table book that shows the nature & different seasons. If you're from a beach area, a seashell picture frame with a pic of her with your family while she was in school.
Remember, for something like this, the $$$ isn't as important as the sentiment.
How can I get back and improve my imagination?
Aria
I am an artist, so imagination is very important. However, I've noticed that mine is fading. Does anyone know of any exercises that will help? I've tried the whole looking at other art thing, and it's only temporary.
Thanks!
Answer
Hi Aria! We all hit the wall and our imagination packs up and leaves us behind wondering what happened. It's not a great feeling especially when you've had the benefit of a lively imagination for a long time. I would suggest just not stressing about it, that only makes the situation worse and turns the whole thing into a vicious cycle. Give yourself permission to take a mental holiday right now. In the meantime, read some good fiction that you've been putting aside, see some movies. I would say that Avatar sounds like a good one to see if you're into that genre of movie. At the same time, I'd suggest journaling each day and writing about what you're feeling, what you're doing to get past those feelings and here's the biggie, why you think your imagination is fading. Be open, honest and tell it like it really is. Read back over your journal entries at the end of each week and see if there is a common thread. Has your home life been taking over your life completely leaving you drained of any energy to feed your imagination? Imagination is just like a small child demanding to be fed, NOW. So, you need to take the time to feed your starving mind. Reading, seeing movies, being good to yourself, taking long bubble baths with the bathroom door locked and a do not disturb sign on it. Once you're feeling a little more like yourself, make a cup of tea, coffee, hot chocolate or whatever the beverage of choice is and sit down with a sketch pad, some colored pencils and just doodle away for an hour. Put the pad away, go about your regular schedule. Do this for a few days in a row to see if you can persuade your imagination that it's safe to come out and play again. Now, move on to a few more difficult challenges. Take your sketchbook and illustrate some key portions of some books you just read. Illustrate how you think that movie you saw should have looked on screen. Think of yourself in the movie Avatar, how would your avatar look? Now draw it. Keep doing simple things like this and it will jump start your imagination and the ideas will flow. Keep a notebook with you to jot down ideas that come to you while you're out and about. You just never know when your imagination is going to rev up its engine and go full out giving you more images than you can possibly write down. You can do this, we all have to learn to feed our imaginations to keep them alive and nurtured if we're going to benefit from them. Who said you had to stop imagining things when you became an adult? How many times have we all heard
"stop daydreaming and wasting your life away?" Well, guess what, it's not a waste of time and we still need to dream even when we're grown ups. So, sit back, sketch pad in hand and let your mind take you to some imaginary lands, to a sandy beach somewhere sunny and south or perhaps to a wonderful bed and breakfast in a quaint old village somewhere deep in Scotland. You have the power to do all this, but you need to give yourself permission to dream and then to draw what you saw, what you felt, how everything looked so new and fresh. It's a cheap holiday, but it's a vital one for an artist to take every day. Also, go to http://robertgenn.com/ and scroll to the bottom of the page and sign up for his twice weekly e-mail newsletters. Sometimes they're funny, sometimes a little sad, but they are always insightful. It's almost like you are sitting down with him at your kitchen table drinking coffee and chatting about the challenges of being an artist. I think you'll find some inspiration in his stories and you can go to the home page and read the archives of previous newsletters. He's a very prolific painter, managing to paint well over 200 paintings a year. He hits the wall just like the rest of us, but somehow he knows just what he needs to inspire him and get him back on track and he's willing to share this information with you. Hope this helps you a bit and that you may have smiled once or twice through this epic answer. I'd be lost without my imagination, I'd never survive nor would I want to. Keep positive and I promise, the days will get brighter, your imagination will come back full force and this colorless time will be a distant memory.
Hi Aria! We all hit the wall and our imagination packs up and leaves us behind wondering what happened. It's not a great feeling especially when you've had the benefit of a lively imagination for a long time. I would suggest just not stressing about it, that only makes the situation worse and turns the whole thing into a vicious cycle. Give yourself permission to take a mental holiday right now. In the meantime, read some good fiction that you've been putting aside, see some movies. I would say that Avatar sounds like a good one to see if you're into that genre of movie. At the same time, I'd suggest journaling each day and writing about what you're feeling, what you're doing to get past those feelings and here's the biggie, why you think your imagination is fading. Be open, honest and tell it like it really is. Read back over your journal entries at the end of each week and see if there is a common thread. Has your home life been taking over your life completely leaving you drained of any energy to feed your imagination? Imagination is just like a small child demanding to be fed, NOW. So, you need to take the time to feed your starving mind. Reading, seeing movies, being good to yourself, taking long bubble baths with the bathroom door locked and a do not disturb sign on it. Once you're feeling a little more like yourself, make a cup of tea, coffee, hot chocolate or whatever the beverage of choice is and sit down with a sketch pad, some colored pencils and just doodle away for an hour. Put the pad away, go about your regular schedule. Do this for a few days in a row to see if you can persuade your imagination that it's safe to come out and play again. Now, move on to a few more difficult challenges. Take your sketchbook and illustrate some key portions of some books you just read. Illustrate how you think that movie you saw should have looked on screen. Think of yourself in the movie Avatar, how would your avatar look? Now draw it. Keep doing simple things like this and it will jump start your imagination and the ideas will flow. Keep a notebook with you to jot down ideas that come to you while you're out and about. You just never know when your imagination is going to rev up its engine and go full out giving you more images than you can possibly write down. You can do this, we all have to learn to feed our imaginations to keep them alive and nurtured if we're going to benefit from them. Who said you had to stop imagining things when you became an adult? How many times have we all heard
"stop daydreaming and wasting your life away?" Well, guess what, it's not a waste of time and we still need to dream even when we're grown ups. So, sit back, sketch pad in hand and let your mind take you to some imaginary lands, to a sandy beach somewhere sunny and south or perhaps to a wonderful bed and breakfast in a quaint old village somewhere deep in Scotland. You have the power to do all this, but you need to give yourself permission to dream and then to draw what you saw, what you felt, how everything looked so new and fresh. It's a cheap holiday, but it's a vital one for an artist to take every day. Also, go to http://robertgenn.com/ and scroll to the bottom of the page and sign up for his twice weekly e-mail newsletters. Sometimes they're funny, sometimes a little sad, but they are always insightful. It's almost like you are sitting down with him at your kitchen table drinking coffee and chatting about the challenges of being an artist. I think you'll find some inspiration in his stories and you can go to the home page and read the archives of previous newsletters. He's a very prolific painter, managing to paint well over 200 paintings a year. He hits the wall just like the rest of us, but somehow he knows just what he needs to inspire him and get him back on track and he's willing to share this information with you. Hope this helps you a bit and that you may have smiled once or twice through this epic answer. I'd be lost without my imagination, I'd never survive nor would I want to. Keep positive and I promise, the days will get brighter, your imagination will come back full force and this colorless time will be a distant memory.
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