How do you give your art more value?

Say you're bored with your art.

Or say you can't find a way to put more into it. You can only knock out small works. You get bored with them, your inspiration only lasts for a day or two. You know that your viewers are getting the same experience: Bam! Nice. On to the next. You'd like to make people more invested in your work, but you can't find a way to get yourself more involved. Energy in... energy out.

How do you increase the value of your work. For you, and for your viewers?

If you're an artist that's happy with your work, then you approach it with your inspiration first. You approach your canvas with your idea, and you work that idea. You don't work around the idea, doing preliminary sketches of ancillary aspects. You don't let your inspiration leak away while you do studies, test out a new brand of paint, or do a "warm-up" painting. You get right down to it and work on your idea. You work in the medium you're comfortable with, at the time you usually work, in the space you're comfortable in. You do everything you need to in order to get the idea down.

This is a sure-fire way to get work done. But by itself, it doesn't leave room for growth. And growth is the way to increase the value of your work. But what is value?

Value is LAYERING. Value is combining as many creative aspects as possible into a single work. You do it now, and you probably know you do it.
You combine background and foreground. You combine knowledge of figurative expression with pattern. You combine a love of composition with painterly technique. You combine natural forms with stylized line work. You combine texture with lighting. You combine careful dimensional modeling with impressionistic color work.

Where you are probably stuck is at the things you think you're NOT good at.

Are you a painter, but don't think your draftsmanship is worth considering? If you have a unique painting style, then of course your draftsmanship is latent in how you paint.

Are you an excellent draftsman, but have no painting chops? You're already defining shape and composition just in line. It's just prioritizing line over shape that makes painting seem difficult.

Are you inspired by composition, but think you can't draw detail? Your ability to analyze composition is all that's needed to dissect the structure of a face, figure, lighting, texture and color.

Talents that we haven't expressed yet in our work are latent in our love of that kind of work.

Do you love M.C. Escher's precision, but you have a painterly technique? There is probably a way to combine them that no one has before.

Is your work based strictly in carefully constructed line work, like that of comic book artists, but you also love the dynamism and fluidity of John Singer Sargent? Who else has combined those two things?

Who else can express your vision of how those two things should fit together to make an amazing whole?

Originality comes from the courage to combine ALL of the aesthetic loves that we have.

I know, it feels like no one is asking for it. Cute with threatening? Droll with precise? Home-spun with vampires? Organic with Furniture? Satanic with food recipes?

All of your heroes combined things in a way that nobody was looking for. Why? Because those were the things that they loved.