of summer flowers (from a photograph I took) and then I just stopped. I am having difficulty resuming. Any suggestion on getting back on track?
2007-12-04 08:30:20 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
In my younger days, I used to love to paint after the family went to bed and everything had quieted down for the night.
I can recall one painting imparticular that I just could not seem to finish and became frustrated with it. I critiqued myself and took the painting to the closet where I kept my art supplies and turned it to the wall. A couple of weeks later I thought about the painting and took it from the closet. To my amazement the painting really looked good to me and I was able to pick up where I left off. It was probably one of the best paintings of that particular style that I ever did. SOMETIMES....ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART GROWN FONDER.....GOOD LUCK AND GOD BLESS......!
2007-12-04 08:54:12 · answer #1 · answered by nomadic_rogue_usa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try to refocus on the reasons you chose that composition in the first place. Was it the colors? Was it the lighting? Was it the overall composition? What did you want to express with the painting? Do you still feel that way?
Try to remember what it was like to see the flowers the way you saw them the day you took the photograph. Then return to your canvas and see if that is what you have painted. If it isn't, fix it.
Remember your purpose in painting the subject in the first place and what you want to impart to yourself and your viewers.
Good luck.
2007-12-04 08:43:58 · answer #2 · answered by tsalagi_star 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Happens to me quite a bit. I've tried a couple of things. Try turning the painting upside down. Also seems to help to begin another creative project - doesn't necessarily have to be a painting either. If you're inside and the weather permits take your work outside and vice versa. Good luck.
2007-12-04 08:41:55 · answer #3 · answered by stoopid munkee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask yourself what is keeping you from finishing it. Does it lack something that isn't in the photograph? Is there something about the piece that doesn't set right with you? I get this way all the time. Right now the only thing from stopping me is finding my brushes, which I have misplaced sinced I have moved.
2007-12-04 08:39:36 · answer #4 · answered by Harold Sink 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All the time... but unlike writing you can even paint without 'painting' anything.
Go do that and 'the spirit' will return to you.
2007-12-04 08:41:37 · answer #5 · answered by Puppy Zwolle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try taking a photo of the photo, and then blow it out of proportion. Try changing music you listen to if any. maybe even changing the photo to black and white will help.
2007-12-04 12:15:26 · answer #6 · answered by e528austin 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋