Paint, Even If You Haven't Painted In A While

Haven't Painted In A While???

Do NOT let that stop you!

Often times we paint a lot,

and then not so much.

Not sure how or why that happens, but it does.

Then when you're ready to pick up your brush again,

the "voice" comes to you telling you,

"well you haven't painted in a long time, may as well just forget it".

Ignore that voice, just like it's your three-year old asking "why" for the 1,000th time this morning.

Here is Aidan painting after not painting for a long time.

Dig out some reference photos, set up a still life,

put a flower in a vase, or paint something from your imagination or from memory.

Just sit down, spend an hour and play in the paint.

My grandson Aidan hadn't drawn or painted for a while,

but he was in the studio the other day while I was making a video for my youtube channel.

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He got inspired and wanted to paint.

I taped some 140 lb. water color paper to a board,

set him up a palette and gave him 3-5 brushes and a pencil

and let him alone.

He drew a car, he's a boy, he likes cars and he has

 learned how to draw them.

Then he painted the car using a lot of color.

Then he asked me if he could mix colors.

I said, hey it's your painting and your paint.

Knock yourself out bubba.

He's 9 so I left him alone to paint anything he wanted,

any way he wanted.

You can tell by that smile, he was pretty tickled with his art.

We should all be tickled with our art,

even if it's just that we

 learned a way how not to do something.

Don't let the "voice" talk you out of 

learning and improving your art.

Regardless of your art form.

Don't let the "voice" tell you you can't do it.

Don't let the "voice" tell you you don't have time.

Don't let the "voice" tell you you don't have talent.

Don't let the "voice" tell you you don't have

 a creative bone in your body.

Don't let the "voice" dictate your life.

Much of art is learning how things work, or the rules.

The rest is practice and learning how to break the rules.

This was Aidan at age 5 learning how to paint the rooster that is in my full blown art course.

He has always loved creating anything, and he wanted to try his hand at the rooster.  

Practice and trying again and again is when the real magic happens.

Have a great creative day.

If you want to learn how to paint,

visit my website at www.paintingwithacrylics101.com.

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