Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Praise the lord!
I got over my hump.  Got in the right mind set and actually did some work today.
One painting was a sketch I was working on, that looked really stupid and going no where.  I dabbled on it just to get in the mood and wahlah!!  I was making sh** look like shinola.  At least better than it was.
Then I was able to tackle a tougher painting that was daunting me.  Woot.

Pat of my process is the "50 paintings on paper" approach.  Basically it's the idea to have something set aside that you can just not care of you make it look good or not.  Then you just paint, just do it and see what happens.  These little pieces may be nice in themselves or they may flop horribly, which is there purpose.  If the painting isn't going to survive on this trial piece , it would have went the same way on a bigger canvas.  Now your fore armed with some known issues and now in the mood to tackle the daunting process of painting.  Really helps.  The only thing I really waste on these pieces is alittle paint but not much.  Right now I'm painting on 5" diameter scrap wooden circles I collected from work.  I have dozens.  So I'm well stocked in the materials.  Any time I'm stuck or have a idea and want to know what it would look like in paint, I grab a circle and experiment.

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