There was a great thread in the Fantasy Art Workshop facebook group about sketchbooks that really got me thinking. I love my sketchbooks, and I burn through them at a fairly terrifying rate. And that’s ok, because in my mind they’re totally disposable, they’re just for practice. But paintings, those are for some reason trapped in this ‘precious item’ category where there is no room for experimentation, trial and error or anything other than execution of an already realized image.
And as a result of that mentality, I’m not painting enough.
I need a painting equivalent of a sketchbook, permission to myself to totally f up the canvas and then just toss it.
And then Michaels sends an email that they’re now offering Bulk items.
Like canvases. Cheap. And lots of them.
So I stocked up.
I now have a pile of 40 8 x 10 canvases are now sitting next to me ready to be played with. I’ve made a checklist of exercises that I want to do, and setting myself some basic ground rules.
- 3 days per painting MAX before it moves to the side
- when it is put to the side only minor tweaks, retouches allowed
- only one painting on the side at a time.
- Run out of canvases before August 1.
I’m so excited! Here we go…
