End of the summer holidays

Since my graduation I have been feeling quiet a bit of pressure to create and produce some work... I'm not even talking about making anything of worth or value, just something...anything! The thing is, I was very inspired when artist Mark McGowan spoke at my graduation ceremony. He set a challenge to begin a new project, not to wait, but start on a new one the very next day. He said if we took too much of a holiday it may turn into months, years before making something. Apparently he has been involved in something like 75 different art projects since graduating 4 years ago. Obviously some projects were smaller than others! I initially came away feeling very inspired & motivated to begin my new found freedom as a professional artist & not just a student of art. But it soon became obvious that as the days began to merge into weeks that it was not going to happen like that for me. The thing is, I was thinking about it constantly and was feeling pressure as I had done nothing. The only one of course that was putting me under pressure to perform to this notion of creating straight away was me myself & I. It seemed like the more I thought about it the harder I was finding it to feel any kind of inspiration to create. As the end of the summer drew nearer I began to realise that I had to begin at some stage, but that it had to be in my own time, in the way that I work. Once I started thinking like that it was as if the juices of creativity started to seep back into my mind...right down to my fingers and toes. So, I have picked up pen and paper again...hurray! I have had a good long break and it's time to begin again, my sketchbook is beginning to bulge...no pressure though!