Hi Robert and Jennifer thanks for reading and sharing. @Robert, I must say I live long enough to have create bad art or seen bad art that are in museums which is most amusing. I wish you loads of creative mojo and fun everyday! @Jennifer, I am sorry to hear you are having challenging times now. Are you able to squeeze some time for yourself or is your time dedicated for your family? If you can squeeze a bit of time maybe you can start finding out what is available and keep trying until it clicks and get your mojo back. Are you a social person that may like to join a art club or does the hospital have some art therapy program for patients as part of treatment? Or can you involve the kids to make an art project together. To make spectacular art is subjective, I think it could be the process of making art that is important and correct me if I am got it wrong, its getting into the "flow". If you have to think too hard its not in the "flow". I am very interested in art therapy but could not volunteer as one has to be fully certified to practice it. Here in Singapore, some government hospital include art therapy for patients and ex-patients. For me finding time to myself works, its a pity we do not have art clubs here as I would definitely give it a try. I also make horrible art just to get it out of my system, I do bin them its like a cleansing ritual process. Dont give up making art and I wish you well.

What beautiful painting's you created. Your spark has definitely returned and your mojo is back in abundance there. I'm finding it hard to find mine, it's like I'm at a creative block, and I don't know which way to go. I have been doing dribs and drabs but nothing spectacular. Nothing I have really thoroughly and truly enjoyed. It's like I want to do it, I think about it constantly, I spend hours looking at other people's work, and enjoy what they have done, but the process of myself sitting down (or standing up) to actually art has gone. I'm broken! It's like there's something switched off inside, and I need something to come along and switch it back on. It could be that I have 3 demanding young children, a chronic illness or just that I'm being lazy and not making time for me. Whatever it is I really do want it to sort it's self out. Any advice is good advice to get back on track.

Hi Janet. I know only too well the problem of loosing ones “Mojo”, by the way some people get very upset by the use of that word, I don't why as the word does conveys the feeling of loss we get at those times extremely well, in a word the “magic” disappears though I do think the creativity never leaves us or we would not still yearn to be able to express in some way. In my case, well, for me painting is a form of meditation and selfishly I suppose I paint for no ones approval but my own on any subject that suits my mood at the time, so during those few hours of painting with old rock music in the background the world drops away as I become totally immersed in the work, Immersed really is the word as I do tend to get covered in paint through scrubbing brushes out on my shirt, never been able to cure myself of that and so to keep out of trouble I have to save my old shirts for use when painting. Anyway many times over the years I have come to a point where no subject appeals and nothing appears worth the effort of painting, the art world fades into insignificance and strangely I feel that all my previous work is some rubbish painted by another entity (could be true?). At this point I have always packed my brushes away and forgotten about art while positively engaging my spare time either building something, studying something, or outdoor activities, walking, travelling etc, whatever! Sooner or later something clicks and like a rubber ball I once again bounce back to painting quickly settling down to it as if there had been no absence, that said the “later” was once five years and in fact I have only recently started to paint again after another absence, it does give me time to get some old shirts together though.