Why You Need To Paint Badly With Pride
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- čas přidán 3. 11. 2021
- If you want to become a great painter you need to be willing to Paint Badly With Pride. It sounds like a crazy notion but I believe that if you want to learn to paint well you need to be willing to paint badly... and rather than being embarrassed about this you need to do it with pride.
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Thank-you for this! No one has ever told me it's ok to paint badly, and your videos are starting to sink in to this 'perfectionist' brain that it's ok to just paint and it's not a failure to work the process. In the mid 90's I had an opportunity to chauffeur two professional painting friends to Deep River, where my family had lived for a decade and Zoltan Szabo was having his course that year. Mr. Szabo as very gracious to a total fraud, (as I had more experience with food colour as a cake decorator, than with watercolour!) and I still have his brand of special plastic holder with water on one side and a roll of tp on the other for the wet brush! Maybe today is a day to haul them out and paint badly in watercolour! Thanks also for inspiring my trip down memory lane! :)
Zoltan was one of the best 😊👍🖌 I learned more in one week with him than two years of art college😊
Love the way you explain what I'm intended to hear and to learn. Thank you Tim Packer. I'm excited!...🎨👍🏼💯🙋♀️
You are very welcome😊👍
I completely agree with you here, other than one small thing, in that Salvador Dali's first painting (that I'm aware of) at age 4 - is excellent.
some people do have a higher natural aptitude with the "skill" but that is only one quarter of the Talent equation. It also requires creativity, knowledge of concepts and experience. The skills can be learned then it is all about what you do with them... kind of like the tortoise and the hare😊👍
Bingo. Thank you for this. I’m in painters block. Going to go at it with a vengeance today
Love to hear that... Painters block is just really the fear of creating a bad painting. Once you give yourself permission to do that... the "block" goes away👍
Thank you
I can't seem to get out from this block. I get frustrated and then try something else. I then get frustrated with this and try something else. I have become a jack of all trades and master of none. 😑
One of my favourite pieces of advice was from Frank Webb who said, "We all start out digging little holes all over the backyard... but at a certain point its time to pick one spot and dig deep"
It doesn't have to be forever and it doesn't have to be the "perfect" spot. Whats important is to pick a spot and start digging. If it becomes apparent that this isn't "it". Then pick another spot and dig deep.
I dug deep on portraits initially... and then on watercolour... and then on more abstracted work... eventually when I started digging deep on my current, subject, style and medium I realized this was "it" for me.
But it was not a straight line to this point and I left a trail of half dug holes in my wake👍
Great advice and excellent examples
Glad you enjoyed it 😊👍
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Thanks a lot Sir 🙏 I really need it. Looking for my Artistic Voice. Totally stopped working because I was not getting the results. Will start again. Love from India🇮🇳❤
Most welcome 😊
Love the Intro, well said, love your work, can't wait to get back to painting!
Love to hear that Lynn 😊❤️🙏
Hi Tim! I just finished up a bad painting today and will start on another tomorrow! I guess the next question is how will we determine if we are going at least in the right direction? I have been painting steadily since 2009 and have two rooms full of bad paintings!! Lol
Hi Catherine,
That is exactly the right question. The first thing is to do is to determine what is the one aspect of your work that is the weakest... and would also have a dramatic impact on the quality of your work if you were to make it a strength.
Then you should focus on improving that particular thing. That might involve doing more exercises than actual paintings... until you can see noticeable improvement. What a lot of artists do is just avoid subject matter or stylistic approaches that showcases their weaknesses. This is exactly the wrong thing to do and results in zero growth.
For most artists that I see... the two biggest weaknesses are drawing and composition. By mastering these two basic skills most artists would see a dramatic improvement in all of their work.
As you master various skills and concepts... then you need to ask... ok what's next... and as Gary Vee says just rinse and repeat for the rest of your journey.
Hope that helps
That seems like excellent advice. I guess the next trick for me would be to identify what is my weakest area. I'm not convinced it's either composition or drawing. I think it may be an ineffective use of value ranges - perhaps a subset of comp or drawing or both!! :) Anyway guess what? I live on Big Bald Lake (near Gallery On The Lake) and have seen your spectacular art in person many, many times! :) I met you at a demo right there about 10 years ago when I was beginning my own journey. You were in the rotunda.. do you remember that? I was too new to this challenge to actually learn much tho!!
@@catherineselinger4806 Gallery on The Lake has been very good to me over the years😊
I have an online course on Colour and Composition that you might find helpful. It’s regularly $79 but here’s a link to get it for 50% Off if you are interested:
www.timpackerartacademy.com/offers/q73DLR2y/checkout
You also might get some value from my free webinar
10 Keys To Selling Your Art
In it I talk a lot about how to continually improve your work.
You can watch it at
www.aspiringartist.ca
Cheers😊
@@timpackerfinearts thanks so much Tim! I just purchased the course. I have the Birches and Crimson course already and it was just great! Thank you! :)
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I hate wasting paint canvas time
How do you handle the thoughts that say you need to be productive
Or frugal by making theses mistakes
You need to be clear about what is your actual goal. If it is to reach your ultimate potential as an artist and to reach a point where you can consistently create great paintings... then I believe that you need to be willing to spend time in process mode... where you will have paintings fail... lots of them.
When that happens you need to understand that it was not a waste of time or materials but a necessary part of your artistic development.
The important thing is to examine what went wrong when a painting fails... creating successful paintings is not just about knowing what to do... its 50% about knowing what not to do. The only way to really gain that knowledge is through your failures.
Hope that helps 😊👍
Thanks
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Have you got a tiny bit of Irish in your accent?
Its the Canadian "eh" 😊