I love your posts. Your careful tutoring has enabled me to break through the “rules” and put colour and shapes on paper. Enjoyment is at the hard of this for me as I use art as a form of therapy. Thank you ❤️
Thank you! In striving to learn new things I sometimes forget that my OCD side (read as my perfectionist side) tends to come out. I want my paintings to be looser because they are the ones that draw me to watercolor in the first place. But I ALWAYS wind up painting in the details, it's the Wretched Little Monster!
If it's any consolation, that's partly a side effect of the way our vision works. We are primed to attend to visual details in things we look at intently. Everyone shares this tendency, regardless of personality. (How do you get around it if you want to paint looser? That's a great subject for another post (or several)!
Treasure you profoundly. A fave painting is in my Scrapbook. I drafted it, then mailed it to my young granddaughter who changed it dramatically & mailed it back to me. She saw the scene differently! Creativity should be a little crazy. Since Christ created duckbill platypus, I get to listen to classical harp as I dink, & paint with a Qtip while on the road. Rules? Only for exhibits. Not for platypuses.
Love the Art Fairy! Great drawings!
I love your posts. Your careful tutoring has enabled me to break through the “rules” and put colour and shapes on paper. Enjoyment is at the hard of this for me as I use art as a form of therapy. Thank you ❤️
Let's write some rules! I'll start.
Always give priority to painting time over washing floors.
Rules? Is that shorthand for a straight edge?
Thank you! In striving to learn new things I sometimes forget that my OCD side (read as my perfectionist side) tends to come out. I want my paintings to be looser because they are the ones that draw me to watercolor in the first place. But I ALWAYS wind up painting in the details, it's the Wretched Little Monster!
If it's any consolation, that's partly a side effect of the way our vision works. We are primed to attend to visual details in things we look at intently. Everyone shares this tendency, regardless of personality. (How do you get around it if you want to paint looser? That's a great subject for another post (or several)!
Treasure you profoundly. A fave painting is in my Scrapbook. I drafted it, then mailed it to my young granddaughter who changed it dramatically & mailed it back to me. She saw the scene differently! Creativity should be a little crazy. Since Christ created duckbill platypus, I get to listen to classical harp as I dink, & paint with a Qtip while on the road. Rules? Only for exhibits. Not for platypuses.
I need to start a Dragonfly quote board! "Rules? Only for exhibits. Not for platypuses." Fabulous! 😂