it is not going to be effortless to restart having a painting routine. Drained is the correct word. But when one is drained, I guess one needs to “get some humidity”, in the form of museums, books, and most of all, painting. Getting a brush in one’s hand, pigment on that brush and putting said pigment on paper. That is the only real way to unblock. I will do it. I finished last night a dog I had sketched and left on my desk the night before leaving for Italy two months ago. Dogs have dominated these past two months. The difficult dog of my guests and the many, too many, dogs of Monti, which barked unchecked for hours at any time of the day and of the night and which truly almost drove me insane. Weirdly, I seem to have called this on me, since the last three pics I did in June and now are about dogs. Is there something to understand here?
In the end it was not so hard to pick up my painting routine again.