Fear of comfort - When you’re too comfortable, you don’t have to analyze your work. Why push yourself in a new direction if the one you’re on is just fine?
Fear of likes - Too many approvals can keep us from risking something new
Fear of personal projects - Ideas without outside pressure or time constraints can easily disperse and disappear.
Fear of not being good enough
Fear of creating irrelevant work and going broke - if you depend on your art for your income
Fear of being out of ideas
I can think of many more, just thought he summarized our discomforts in a new way.
Loosen Up Your Watercolors
There are so many discussions about wanting to create looser, freer, more spontaneous, pieces, that I am finding articles and videos to share.
Go (a Little) Wild!—How to Loosen Up (Just a Bit) in Watercolor
1. Choose 3 colors at random and do the entire painting with only those colors.
2. Start with a wild underpainting.
3. Work wet-in-wet within shapes.
4. Connect as many shapes as possible into one big wet area, and “separate” them by lifting and glazing small areas later.
5. Whenever possible, draw with the brush.
6. Touch a wet edge in a few places as you lay in an adjacent wash and let the color run.
7. Use a spray bottle to soften and make color run, especially around the edges.
Here is the full article, with examples: Go (a Little) Wild
Heather Solway @ Gallery Sanchez
