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VINTAGE SWIMSUIT and CREATIVE BLOCK by Linda Popple

7x5 on Canvas Panel For purchase information click HERE. To view my blog click HERE. After attending two fantastic workshops, I found myself without focus and momentum to work in the studio.  Each time I did (thinking "just get in there and get busy and this will pass"), my attempts to paint larger were so bad that I would end up with wipe out after wipe out.  In between these times I would paint smaller and read about art with my books and magazines and on the internet.  Although my blogging stopped I have continued to look and admire all the work on your blogs.  I've reviewed my notes from workshops and watched DVDs.  It's been a difficult time.  Thankfully, my good friend and artist  Linda Reedy  listened patiently with my complaints and offered good advice and a wonderful book that I am now reading and will re-read again and again.   The War of Ar t  by Steven Pressfield is a book that speaks to every creative person tha...