The best time start learning to design your own paintings is right from the beginning—or from wherever you are now—instead of waiting until you have more skills or more practice.
Here are 3 simple strategies you can use to get started designing simple paintings of your own, even if you just picked up a brush for the first time today.
WAIT! Have you done part 1? Important: Please do the activity described in “Just-So” Stories, part 1 before reading this post! Please take as much time as you need for part 1. You may want to spend more than one journaling session working on it, to give yourself plenty to work with in part 2….
This article is the third in a series. The preceding articles are: Is My Painting Done? Are You a “Photocopier”? There’s a Better Way In response to the last article, a reader made a couple of excellent points about why it’s sometimes difficult to deviate from a reference photo: lack of confidence, and the planning…
A couple of weekends ago, we had a beautiful 70-degree day with this year’s glorious fall colors just hitting their peak. On the spur of the moment, I grabbed my backpack and headed out to paint with a friend. I had forgotten to bring masking tape, so I couldn’t tape down my paper to keep…
Save yourself some headaches by choosing subjects and creating designs that work with the medium.
Try exploring different watercolor effects and “textures” and asking “What does this watercolor effect remind me of? What could I use it to suggest?”
This activity can take some time to “complete”. Don’t feel that you have to finish it in one sitting. In fact, you will likely get more out of it if you return to embellish and add to it later. I’ve deliberately split this activity into two posts. I’ve found I get more creative and flexible…
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