Do you keep a sketchbook?
A sketchbook can be your most important asset in your artistic growth. It can be your
private world where ideas get recorded or arguments are explored or where you can play until your heart is content. Nobody but you need see what's there.
Explore Quick Studies in Watercolor
You don't need an expensive watercolor kit. One of those little Prang sets is adequate for doing watercolor studies in your sketchbook. Explore gesture, color, shape -- whatever catches your attention.
Play with Different Approaches or Materials
Play with different materials or do quick, unedited responses. Make notes or just record your thoughts.
Be Spontaneous. Don't Have a Plan
Play with different materials or do quick, unedited responses. Write down whatever thoughts come to your mind whether ideas about art or how you feel or just random thoughts. The
space is yours to freely express yourself.
Gesture Draw! Doodle! Push that pen or pencil without fretting about getting it
right. Here is a place of no judgement. You can let your pen or pencil go wild and respond to movement or shape or whatever gets your attention. I like to chase baseball players with my pencil.
Make your sketchbook a place of joy, a place where you can go to get away from other people's ideas, a place where you can do or say anything you want. When you can get comfortable doing this, you will be amazed how much freedom you will find in your artistic life.
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