30 Paintings in 30 Days and What I Learned

 

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This is a collage of my paintings for the last 30 days.  Thank you Leslie Saeta for putting this whole thing together!

This is WHAT I LEARNED from doing the challenge:

• Don’t ever feel it’s a waste of time to scrape off and start again.  It’s still putting in the miles, doing the work, and keeping you in the paint!
• Don’t assume anything.
• Painting every day or almost every day or making some kind of art every day makes for a good creative habit!
• It’s really good to experiment – it offers an opportunity to do something different.  You learn a lot!
• I feel I can handle paint better, mix colors more accurately in a shorter period of time, and can get the values correct on the first or second try.
• Making a lot of small paintings is really helpful if your goal is to eventually make large paintings.  There are several of these little paintings that I want to expand on in a larger format with more color detail and/or more abstract.
• Look at the work other artists are creating; it's very inspiring for your own work.  There are a lot of really good artists out there!
• Meditating puts you in a good place for painting.
• All of this DOES make a difference!
• I love having made this colorful series of small paintings!