How to Save a Bad Painting
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2024
- This week I made a real mess of a painting - and then I rescued it. In this video, I share my secret.
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The same lesson…the same message. It’s fascinating that we hear it repeatedly yet still find ourselves ignoring it! Thanks for normalizing that experience!
You're very welcome
Dear Louise, thanks for the laugh-when you said “this is after 4-1/2 hrs” 🤣 What can I say? You are the most wonderfully relatable person on CZcams ❤️❤️
Oh thank you!
@@ThisPaintingLife I totally agree with Sharon! I was just cracking up at the remarks about your painting you were making because I think I just felt relief that I'm not alone in making a mess of things!
Thank you! I just took a break from a painting crash and this is exactly what I needed to listen to. Thank you for sharing and caring.
“It’s really simple, but not that easy…” made me burst out laughing. Exactly true.
Haha Glad I could make you laugh! 😀
Louise, your journey into portraiture has started a fire in my gut. Robert Henri's were the first portraits that excited me & I enjoyed copying them in pastels. Shortly after, I discovered Find Your Joy & began learning about myself, acrylics & what was joyful! Thanks to your courage, I am drawn to give portraits another try with my own voice, whatever that turns out to be. As always, a heart full of gratitude. Perhaps Art Tribe will have a masterclass in portraits??
Coming up actually :)
Thank you for your honesty,advice and sharing your work that you were unhappy with.
My pleasure! Happy painting!
Dear Louise - it’s like You are in my head, when i am “going down” with my paintings, your advises and talks are priceless (hope you understand my danish/english) You are such a great help in my process, I cant thank you enough 🙏🏻
I absolutely adore your wisdom!
Thank you a thousand times over!!!
You are so welcome! Thanks for watching ♥
Yes thankyou indeed. Finding that enjoying zone is priority!
Absolutely!
Very valuable to view the process, especially when it goes off the rails! Not a minute wasted in that initial 4.5 hours.
Yes I don't think we ever waste time if we are painting x
The colour palette you chose for that portrait is fabulous, I love it!
What you said reminded me of how I reacted when I went on my first ever drawing class, I did 95% of the classes with no problem, until it came to the portrait session, I'd tried and tried so hard at home I couldn't face the class so skipped it. 10 years later I managed a passable portrait, then learned to walk away from the frustration (most of the time)
Thank you so much for sharing this. I often need to be reminded that it's the process not the outcome. And I absolutely love your portaits!
I am so glad it was helpful and thank you for the love. ♥
Excellent guidance as usual Louise. Always great to have a recent video from you pop up on my feed!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you, Louise. I get in my head often. Learning to walk away, change my attitude, and let the painting guide me.
Your portraits are amazing! ❤️
Thanks Pia
I like your portraiture!! My problem with fixing canvases is painting and excavating so many times that I have holes in them and have to throw them out or recover with new canvas.
Yes I do this too - that's why I prefer wood
Such good advice. And so refreshing.
Thank you. Carolann.
You are so welcome!❤
You are absolutely right, Louise! I am an abstract artist who recently took a portrait class (totally out of my comfort zone). It gave me "new eyes"! It's always good to step away and regroup when getting frustrated with a painting. I take pics of my paintings and look at them on my computer screen. It gives me a new perspective and where to go and what needs to be done.
Yes I like to do that too
Yes, that's exactly it, Louise. Thanks for your openness and sharing your authentic experience!
You are so welcome!
Great video for us but awesome portraits
Thank you so much 😀
Thanks for all you do Louise!❤
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Thank you so much for such encouragement. You are so generous. Thank you..
You are so welcome
Thanks so much for your great advice. The painting turned out fabulous! 👏🏻❤️❤️❤️
Aww thank you Cathy! ♥
Beautiful painting Louise! I love the colors you chose. Very helpful video. Thank you.
You are so welcome!
thank you Louise. always enjoy your honesty and openness, and 'straight to the point" sharing.
So glad you enjoyed it!
Great video thank you so much for sharing!!!
You are so welcome!
Thank you - that was very helpful! 👍♥️
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you Louise. We all need to hear and remember this message. We are often too hard on ourselves.
so true!
Thank you, dear Louise.
Your thoughts and advice are always right on.
I could have used this advice a couple of days ago,
as I was struggling with a painting.
Glad it was helpful! Happy Painting! 🖌
You are right about being fixated on the outcome ruining the painting. Art is a process of learning. Making videos killed my art because I got stuck in this cycle. If I think about it I don’t actually think bad art is a problem because we have to get the ‘bad’ art out the way to get to the good art. It’s all the lessons we need to learn to get to the good stuff. But your insight about intention is what I was missing for me about why I stopped making videos. Thank you 💜 p.s.Sometimes if the art goes so wrong there is no saving it, I cathartically tear it up and make it into collage 😂
At least it's not wasted!
Thanks Louise
You are so welcome!
Thanks and blessings to u!!❤🌿❤
Thanks for watching! 🖌
Oooh you do talk such sense. Thanks!
You're so welcome!
love the "makeover"!
So glad you enjoyed it!
Louise, thank you for being inspirational in teaching me to paint for myself and not worry about what someone else may think of my work. I guess I must be too much of a newbe ha ha, cuz when my painting doesnt turn out the way I think it should I just paint over it and start again or toss it. Maybe when I spend 4 hrs on a portrait I'll feel different about trashing it. Thank you again and again for all you do. ♥
you have the right attitude - keep going!
Thank you, really helpful!
You're welcome!
Just went thru this today....three versions! Thank you.
well done for keeping going!
Thanks for showing us how we might salvage things!
You bet!
Such a beautiful painting and I'd love to learn to paint portraits with the lovely colorization! Oh, and Magnificent advise, thank you!
You are so welcome!
Yes yes yes! Same for me!
So glad to hear it!
Very helpful, same thing happened to me this week, too concerned with the outcome.
It's so funny to see how often we do this!
Getting out of my head is difficult for me.
It can be difficult for all of us at times. You are not alone but art is supposed to be relaxing and fun. Let that flow ♥
I am a huge fan of DS9 and Louise was spellbinding as Kai Winn, especially in the last season. Rest in Peace.
I'm still here! I'm not the actress
@@ThisPaintingLife OMG I thought you had passed away. I am so sorry if I scared you. I've never heard your real accent before, I never knew that you were Australian, it just shows what a good actress you are. Do you still keep in contact with the old cast? I heard they were going to be doing a continuation show called The Dominion War, could you be in that? I know your character died at the end of Season 7 but I was thinking maybe you could return as a Pah-Wraith or something?
I literally had this happen to me a couple of days ago. I ruined a perfectly good abstract painting that was looking good but that I knew wasn't finished. It still has some promise and I think it can be fixed but it looked better before I started working on it again. Part of my problem is that I have moments of inspiration when magical things happen but when I go back and continue on the painting and try to finish it I can't remember how to do what I did before. I can't reproduce the inspiration. Maybe I'm moving too fast instead of waiting on inspiration. When I try to copy what I did before it doesn't work out.
Hi Matt, the thing is, that is an essential stage of every painting. I call it the 'ugly teenager' stage. Just keep going in the way I described (light and fun without pushing for an end result) and you will get where you need to go. And the finished painting will be much better than those early layers that you liked
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Thanks for telling me! I changed my website and totally forgot to change all the links. You're a star - and if you want to get the newsletter, this is the link www.louisefletcherart.com/contact
I need to stop throwing my paintings away that I think are ruined.
Yes!
Do you think the ‘good’ portrait needed the 4.5 hours of exasperation to succeed?
No! That's my point - if i had not been focused on making a 'good' painting for the video, I probably would have made a good painting!