Look, Lazarus, you wrote a whole nice post about not being able to write ) that's what you should probably do - to be natural, to not force yourself to do this or that.
I soooooo understand what you mean by just not being able to write although the ideas are there waiting to be put into realisation, it happens to me all the time... I bought two sets of Matryoshka dolls last summer, guess how many of them I've painted?)) just one))) it's beautiful, but it's 1/10 of two sets )))) that's not the single example, haha, I stop doing something for the reason of being not into it for 100% - my huge project "Russian From Scratch" that would feel like being present in a classroom (an hour long videos, something I've never done before), I could have started months ago, but something prevents me from it, so I do something else - looking at your and other steemians writings, reading, drawing, singing ))) hahaha, and you're analysing yout "block", which is also a way of doing something else!
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Thanks for the encouragement Katya - I'm basically just going to go into casual mode for a while, haha. I get so serious about all this sometimes, it's probably worth taking a proper breather.
I'd love to see the completed dolls whenever you get around to finishing them, or even just a single one by itself! Those big projects can be so daunting, it's hard to even start sometimes. Hopefully we will overcome together :)
We sure will, Lazarus! Haha, here is the one little Matryoshka from the whole set, that I managed to finish painting ))
I pain them in different Russian traditional styles of ornaments, this one is called Gorodets, look (CC0 wikipedia, ahahaha)
Awesome, nice work! Loving the flower details and I can see the resemblance there to the Gorodets style. I had a set of Matryoshkas as a kid, from one of my Grandparents I think - when I thought of Russia, they were always the first thing that came to mind, haha. It makes me smile for some reason, talking to a real life Russian years later, who actually designs them :D