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Patience In Art

Patience In Art

How can I develop more patience when I am doing my art work?

Art Patience

By relaxing. Do not rush your work. Rushed work looks sloppy at best. If you relax and take your time your going to finish with a much better thought out project.

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This is another reason why I haven't gone far in art either. Anything where you have to be concentrating for a long time makes me lose focus, I know that is a contradiction in terms, but so is my art!

Art Patience

Stop thinking of art as a way to make something, and embrace the process itself. Approach art as a meditative act. Listen to music while you paint. Sing along with the music. This will help you turn off the critical, thinking part of your brain, so the creative, feeling part of your brain can take over.

Art Patience

That my friend is actually a good way to look at it IF you can do art well, if not you will be engaging the critical part of your brain even more thinking - what the heck am I doing!

Patience In Art

Then the first thing you need to let go of is the idea that art is something you need to do well. Try this: If you can't turn off the critical part of your brain, give in to it. Give it what it wants. Give it a plan. Find a painting you like, and analyze it, Then copy it. For this exercise, cheating is allowed. Trace it, project it. Do whatever it takes to duplicate it. Keep working on it till you reach the point where there is nothing you can do that will make it look better. Then start another picture. No matter how bad you think they are, keep making new ones. If the twentieth century taut us anything, it taut us this: quality is irrelevant.