Art Block

I can relate. I've had writer's block for months at times. It's the worst feeling in the world because not only can you not work, your expressive outlet is missing. In this way, I think artists have a tougher job than regular people. For most people, if work is not going well, they have some hobby they can retreat to. If the hobby is not going well, work is. If you're an artist, however, you get shafted on both counts at once.

Hmm... let's see. (scratches head) 1. She could "explore" her sadness. A grim idea but maybe if she tried to render feelings of sorrow in some manner it would help her move forward. 2. Avoid everything art related for a couple days. Focus on something completely opposite like solving crossword puzzles or math problems or work on a chore that she has put off for a long time. Clean the house or apartment. Nothing like scrubbing the toilet to make you really wish you were doing something you enjoyed. :P 3. Doodle. Basic lines, very little shading or filling in. Cartoonish. Just keep it simple and whimsical. Start with a squiggly line that becomes the broken edge of a wall that corners into a dish towel dripping windows into a simmering pot that bottoms out into a hat brim that has tree limbs growing out to one side and in the tree limbs there is a child's tree house with butterflies swarming out the roof and into a balloon that has a hole in the side where a roller skate, driven by a mouse, zooms towards a clock face whose hands are lifting a piano suspended by ropes while musical notes spill out of it, tumbling into... The spontaneous nonsense may help rekindle your friends creativity.