It happens to us all – Unable to draw or paint to our satisfaction…What do you do?
I’m not afraid to admit I have a pile of failed paintings. Mostly watercolours that I have either given up on or lost the interest in finishing.
I’ve had days when I can’t draw for toffee, or even draw the toffee. Days when it just doesn’t go right – the image in my head is not what is appearing on the paper.
Sometimes going back and looking at these paintings will give me new inspiration. But this is not helpful when you are looking for a way to stop artist block.
So this is my secret! I sometimes tear up my image and collage it into a new image. This can be randomly using bits of the image or finding passages that I like and creating smaller paintings from the original.
Either way gives me a new image and a new direction that can be enough to kill off the artist block!
This video is one of my methods.
