How to Overcome the Fear of Making a Bad Painting

right so appalling light I apologize I'm gonna do my best now to quickly show you this is a problem painting that I son did back and I was talking about letting go and painting big and emotional and just making the worst painting you can and that's what I'm gonna do here because there's nothing else to be done with this anyway so I've mixed up the quick pout I've got a really basic palette of black white yellow ochre burnt umber and I've made a gray to get started with so it's going to be not a pretty power anyway so I'm scared to do this against black is nice yellow very saturated core so against that black it's nice but also nice against black it's burnt umber but that's more transparent so it's not gonna pop quite as much I'm just gonna stop your essay right now this I've just dried it off because otherwise everything goes muddy and it's not quite dry yes I still might get mud but this doesn't feel bold enough and emotional enough to me if I'm going for emotion so I need to be bigger with my brush strokes and I've got really dark now I've gone black on here and get you know about fear I think it's getting really dark I've got this orange or your crayon Apostoli thing one of the things that creates drama and emotion in a painting is contrast between light and dark so I'm just gonna go in and put some kind of again it's all about the execution though it's got to be done with confidence and even if the marquee make you don't like because we're trying to make an ugly painting it's got to be made with a sense of vigor otherwise it won't come across with that that you're trying to get that's what we're not going for a nice painting so I'm just just letting go and not be frightened and I think the fear of painting emotionally can often be the fear of feeling the emotions that will come up on me paint emotionally I'm quite sounds poncey to say and quite an emotional person and I'm quite aware of my emotions and pretty much rule by them so I have any problem accessing that and painting from it but if you protect your emotions guard them then letting them out on the board or canvas can be difficult because you don't do that generally but this is what's tough golden talks about is the importance of facing the fear he calls it dancing with fear it's the importance of letting go when you feel fear his theory is that means you're about to do something important and therefore you should feel the fear and then God do it because this the fear is telling you this is something important you need to do and if it's the case that what you're worried about is letting go painting big maybe what you're worried about is letting go and being big in life and that's something too to just face in to go do the big painting and see what happens it won't kill you and see what comes up anyway that's my suggestion so here we are we have an ugly painting you're not trying to make a nice painting you'll get caught up at this point in trying to make it nice so what can we do to make it worse and then my suggestion when you get to this stage right now you have right so you've done the hard part now you've covered up that board you've got your big emotional brushstrokes big bold crazy brushstrokes and you've done the worst part now you start to think about what parts of this don't please me what don't I like and then mix up a very light color white mixed with a tiny bit of black or white mix with a tiny bit of yellow walk or whatever you want and then take a big brush and if there's something you don't like do a big brushstroke one brushstroke over that piece that you don't like and then leave it do the next part you don't like cover that then step back look at what you've got now and then go back in and react again to what you've got now and that way you've got a living painting that your constant that's one way to get started on this painting being bold but we now have a painting we can work with so go do it [Music] you [Music]

Channel: Louise Fletcher Art

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Keywords: painting, art, artists block, art and fear, louise fletcher, this painting life

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Length: 9min 6sec (546 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 01 2018