I had the chance to sit-in on a wonderful guest class by a local artist, Blaine Deutsch. He got us to try Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies approach for when you’re stuck on something. It’s a set of cards, each with a short phrase aimed at rejiggering your thinking. I got the card below:
You can find the very nice card sets (and other merch) on Eno’s Oblique Strategies website, but there are also lots of webpages that will throw up a random one for you, including my own: