Don't burn them, you'll regret later. Put them away and try something else. Make some doodles or use different mediums. I've been feeling the same and since I started trying new thingss, not only found new passions, but went back to the old ones
No need to be sad just because you don't seem to enjoy your painting anymore, it's like you said, it became boring. But once you try different things you'll see things differently, wich eventually leads to something different.
That sounded really silly, sorry can't find a better way to put it.
Your work is great i'm sure you'll find something great.

We all get artist's slumps once in a while. Take a break and ease the stress..you'll inspiration will return eventually. As for repetition, well..not like anything hasn't been done before.

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I'm more protected than a box of extra strength Trojans.. - ~slayerv2

perhaps it's time to just take a break from the brushes and express yourself elsewhere...maybe other mediums...screenprinting, um...sculpture?
or even other activities like say...music and, I don't know...documentary making, mountain climbing, I suppose...but maybe, at least you'll take your mind off of the "not-being-able-to-find/define-self-with-painting-anymore" issue and be able to rejuvenate...

I get that way sometimes and I just use a different medium and subject matter. It gets me all fired up again.

Don't get too worried about this! Every painter and every artist has periods in which his/her imagination is stuck on something and it won't do anything else... I know it's frustrating, but have patience... I know you think that a few months is too much, but it isn't...

I'm not trying to act like "wise ass", but I felt I should tell you... I had two periods like this, first one was over an year long and I thought I would never paint again... I was saying to myself, this was it, I just lost it all: my patience with painting, my inspiration, my skills... I even trew away the colors, the brushes and canvases, thinking I couldn't find a use for them anyway...
It was killing me, but I was coping with it...

Art is like love, U sometimes feel the passion is gone, U sometimes feel that U have consumed every drop of joy..of satisfaction... U sometimes feel there's nothing new to it... Sometimes going away from it can make it better...

Keep it up, U are good at what U do and U should be more optimistic... Don't force your way back in your creative mood, it could do more damage than good. Find something else to do(something U enjoy) and let your muse come back from her holiday when she feels like... Even if U can't paint anything, your brain is gathering data for the paintings you will do later....
Man, I wrote a whole novel... I hope U don't mind...

I am quite curios to see what will come up after this non-productive period... usually, things change...

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It's OK...
I got lost on the way...
But I'm a SUPERGIRL!
And supergirls don't cry!

I see, I've felt similarly before.
I know that when I feel like this, it's because mentally I'm treating my work like a job; which even if it it, it shouldn't feel like it.
Perhaps is the the same scenario.

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Your Daily Slap in the Face.

S.K.I.N at AX'07 - If you were there copy this into your signature.

See I think That's a big part of my problem...subject matter. I've been painting portraits for so long that I can't seem to get away from it. Every time I try to come up with a new message of thought for a painting, I seem to always want to apply it to painting a portrait. I just don't know how to get away from that habit. What the hell else do I do? I don't want to paint landscapes, and I suck at abstract work. Ug...I just don't know. I really want to paint, but I don't want to paint the same old shit again. Does that make sense?

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Gallery

Neosynthesis

well... you could always start over.

when you first became an artist you worked on paper with a pencil right? go back but do something different, if you started with portraits,now start with landscapes... learn nature in ways you never thought to then by the time you're back to painting!

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Dislexics untie!!

yup...may I toss my computer into your bonfire?

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You are either pitiful or powerful... you can't be both.
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