Why you struggle to paint.

[@JZB1101]

Hi all, I am the student Chelsea speaks of in this video. With all the formal training I have gone through, no one has gotten me closer to my goals than Chelsea. Her mentorship program really zeros in on a student's particular roadblocks. I have seen her give direction to other students and the results are amazing. They go from tentative paintings to bold, confident work they are proud of. Signing up for her mentorship program was the best decision I ever made in my journey to become the artist I have always envisioned.

[@mlcs179]

Thanks it’s good to know it does help. Great advice on this post.

[@ChelseaLang]

I'm so proud of you, Julia! You continue to work so hard, and I'm so happy to work with you to help you reach your goals! For anyone who wants to find out more about working with me, you can find out more about the program here: www.allaprimabootcamp.com/about/
And apply to work with me here: www.allaprimabootcamp.com/survey-page1633565281620

[@jenns_artlandia7896]

I struggle with chronic Cptsd, anxiety and severe depression. I know what my favorite mediums are. I know what my favorite colors are etc.. finding an art style is a serious challenge/problem for me. Ive been stuck for 6 years.

[@katopaints]

Omg, this was so helpful! Being over serious has actually stifled my productivity. I haven’t been able to put my finger on it for months now. THANK YOU 🙏🏼

[@doratiscareno5856]

Chelsea...
Im a retired Artist
50 years🎨🖌
Art was my life...
I would paint every chance i got
I got so into my work... I WOULD LITERALLY FORGET TO EAT
IT WAS EVERYTHING TO ME💕
THEN I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH FIBROMYALGIA
NOW I JUST LIVE A LIFE OF HORRIBLE PAIN
I sometimes cant even get out of bed...i started a GALLERY WALL IN MY LIVING ROOM
2 YEARS AGO
Ive managed to get 3 paintings done...i have around 15 more to complete the wall
I walk by my drafting/ art table
And sometimes i just stand there looking at all my
Art supplies
with sadness😢
I hope one day to paint again

[@laurenjackson1682]

Hi, I am similar to this, I painted every chance I got through my teen years. I was then diagnosed with CFS and being tested for fibro too. It is so hard wanting to paint but can’t. I hope you manage to paint soon x

[@ritekeith]

I am in a similar situation. Look at my paints and brushes and become sad and frustrated. But if I can get some painting done I try to accept this.

[@doratiscareno5856]

@@laurenjackson1682
😥

[@doratiscareno5856]

@@ritekeith
😥

[@DedicatedLightWorker]

Dr Joe Despenza, you can do it

[@KayInMaine]

Feels like your art has changed, Chelsea. All great tips, thank you!

[@annefrench2644]

This is sooo helpful, Chelsea! I am guilty of several of these roadblocks. This video will help me get back to painting. Thank you!!!

[@payntpot7623]

Yes, procrastination is a human failing.
Anyone worried they need to stack the dishwasher, should consider themselves blessed they actually own one!!!

[@hotlineoperator]

Excellent things that can also be applied to other ambitious goals.

[@J0nnygoeswild]

I like how these videos show up when less expected

[@ronschlorff7089]

Chelsea, good one as usual. I don't comment often but do watch often; this one speaks to me. We all "struggle", it's just "part of the deal" with being an artist, and a human, I guess, really. We mostly live by emotion and not reason, hence the world's problems today and throughout history, I guess. Enough of that but for me I've always wanted to do art, since a child, now in my 70's. But I got my degrees in science, not art, since I did "want to eat and buy a house" when considering college and careers. And I've also painted all that time, starting "seriously" in grad school in the 70's, with animals, since that's what my scholastics were all about. So, here's a "news flash", young uns, it never gets "easy or simple or straight forward", especially if a "professional"; it's the process of becoming creative. Not Everyone can do it, and maybe not you! I often think of the mythological guy pushing the big rock up the hill, Sissifies (sp.). Or the pro baseball pitcher. One day you throw a no-hitter, the next time on the mound it is a seven-hit drubbing, including two homers, and a walk, for you in the second inning!! LOL ;D
I'm talking about traditional and representative art, now, requiring the "honing of skills"; and not that "other kind of art". God only knows what that is all about!! :D LOL
Just look at the bios of all the great historical artists like Sargent, for example. He did do portraits and they sold well, made him "rich" for the day, but he came to hate them and the people he painted mostly, saying it was a "good way to lose friends" to paint for them. Yes, the commission is the "666 of painting" and if you make your living doing them you will come to realize that sooner than later. Especially the lousy reference or other things you mentioned. If you have thick skin and really "don't care about people" it can be good, it's just a job then. Since most of my "portraits" were wildlife subjects, I did care about them, except as a species on this planet that we were harming, and my not a "personal acquaintance". I've painted in all genres and all mediums and have settled, for now, on oil landscapes, occasional quick portrait sketches since it's important "for the eye", (as you know, hence my interest in your channel), also some plein air. So, they are easy to do, are all around us, cost little to get to, and never talk back to you, or break into tears if you mess them up. LOL. Happy holidays to you and yours too.

[@NarcArtTherapy]

I heard someone say for you to get motivated you have to be innovating. Most people think art is about rendering an image well. But that's just an aspect the reality is, exciting art is always innovative. For me, this means taking inspiring elements and melding them together to create something that inspires me. Not just recreating a photograph, or something like that. I think that is what held me back more than anything. Breaking barriers often has to with our own source materials and how we combine them.

[@normanmerrill1241]

I love watching you paint…thanks

[@crochetomania]

I was hoping I would recognise myself in one of the roadblocks, but I didn’t. I just don’t feel inspired anymore. And when I feel a tiny glimpse of inspiration it’s like a have an inner voice that says “what’s the point, it’s gonna be an unfinished rubbish anyway, like the other 10 you have laying around in your studio”… 😢

[@suzannebonham583]

Beautifully done you are painting like your curated board! 💫💫💫💫💫

[@rodeastell3615]

Great video ... and so helpful. Thanks for posting.

[@glaight6362]

Great tips, thank you

[@ChantelleArts]

so many fantastic tips, you've done fantastic work this year, cant wait to see what you get up to next year 😊

[@vanniekerkjohannes5568]

Thanks for inspiring! Me! You realy a tonic! to motivate students when they day dreaming! Waisting lot's of time through lots of laziness! 🤩

[@joywall9106]

Thanks. Very interesting. Trying this. 😊

[@inspiredflower]

Perfect timing 🥰 thank you ❤

[@Herr_Vorragender]

Art is the ultimate end boss battle. 👊😬
When I have beaten the end boss down to his last 5 hit points, he morphes into an even bigger and more powerfull opponent. 😤
He, who we call "art", is not one, he is a legion. ☝😑 Everyone brave enough to conquer him, faces his own opponent.
He's a cunning trickster, too. He pretends to grow stronger and more fierce with every skill the artist achieves. It is as though we chip away bit by bit from the iceberg and with every bit more and more emerges from the depth.
And just when the brave artist thinks he's got it, suddenly out of nowhere art launches a hard right uppercut with the new yet so close art area of sculpting with clay. 😵‍💫
My ego thinks it's cool to have skills that are wicked hard to achive.
Like dancing, baking, cooking, playing the violin, and drawing and painting.
How I wish I had a simpler mind only interested in lifting weights and building muscles to impress girls. 💁‍♂

[@didgeridooblue]

I've only arrived at the weight lifting stage.

[@Herr_Vorragender]

@@didgeridooblue 😳 you know I was joking, right? 😅

[@didgeridooblue]

I thought so, but this is where I'm at on my journey. @@Herr_Vorragender

[@coramuller6065]

🌲Thank you very much, Chelsea. Great explanations ! I wish you a Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year 2024.💖🌲

[@frognpitt69]

Wow!

[@renzo6490]

When the video that I am watching is interrupted by an advertisment, It makes me hate the product.

[@amateurbarnabycreates]

Just think of it as a way to support the artist.

[@renzo6490]

@amateurbarnaby .. I am not bothered by advertising per se.
I just don’t think the video should be interrupted by it.
Show the ad BEFORE the video begins.

[@angeladee8789]

CZcams red is how I solved that

[@damustafa2416]

Pay for CZcams or get ads. Don’t assume the world owes you free anything

[@renzo6490]

@@damustafa2416 I’m not assuming anything.
And I am not bothered by ADS.
I AM bothered by ads that interrupt a video that I am in the process of watching.
Ads at the beginning or ending of a video do not bother me.
Do you understand?

[@raymccall6496]

Nice to see you do real time painting ❤

[@laurensakuma4160]

this content is super super helpful! THANK YOU! ❤

[@AshaDrawsHerself]

Love this video ❤

[@SteSeed]

I've been trying to paint for a while now, without any success whatsoever. I've found the reason why I'm so bad, I'm simply not talented, and painting is a talent. I've quit and excepted the fact.

[@tevinsinks8059]

Still learning how to paint with oil. Just did a painting after I got off and it took me four hours still not done. I couldn't put it here but it's on my Instagram. Have some adjustments to make to it but I'll get there. Great video and like always great painting.

[@payntpot7623]

Wait till it takes you over 10 years to finish a painting. Then you may understand what "frustration" is!

[@tevinsinks8059]

@@payntpot7623 😮

[@tevinsinks8059]

Long time

[@LisaRSArt]

Love the video. Thank you. ❤

[@mlcs179]

I get in my own way - perfectionism, negative self talk and judgement, my own. I have watched, read, etc and feel little improvement, not the breakthrough I want.

[@mikenoneofyourbusiness7122]

Letting go of perfectionism, and creating just for yourself, remove pressure and allow to relax and create freely. Developing self-confidence is essential for the artist, to see your own dynamic growth and stand firmly by your internal vision (“artist statement”) throughout artistic evolution.

[@afonsoazevedo34]

I struggle because it's expensive !! And nobody cares what i'm doing 😕

[@afonsoazevedo34]

No, i watxhed the video. And for i think it was "i spend more time preparing the painting than paint"

[@sally-annllewellynartist9362]

My problem is the WHY?.... Why am I painting this? And if it inevitably ends up skipping the stages to No Point At All.

[@janerimer6475]

Holy smokes. Thank you. I’m a watercolor artist and I’m THAT stuck

[@cynthiamarston2208]

I, for some reason, think art is a useless waste of time and objectively I know this isn’t true. The creative process is part of everybody in some form or another! It is also work. It starts out fun then becomes a string of frustrations. I want to change! It’s over serious! I have a lot of supplies and a ton of time and been told I’m good artist…. Why I have started and stopped my whole life. Kind of the story of my life. Discouraged by frustrations . Soooo…hypnosis to make me embrace frustration? Ave you ever seen that show with dozens of art students in China making masters copies? How does that make you feel? Makes me feel soooo average at best. How do you divorce yourself from what others are creating?

[@deanusmanus]

Chelsea, do you know any other artist that does kinda what you do for landscape painters instead of the portrait painting you do? I never really done portrait paintings & mostly do landscape paintings. I'm looking for someone to mentor with for more landscape focused work.

[@ronschlorff7089]

Check out Phil Starke, he has You Tube vids on all aspects of landscape painting, his specialty, with demos, compositional tips, exercises and does take students if you want. Google Phil Starke artist, I watch him almost daily as he posts, he's been doing it for several years so old ones as well as new ones available. Good guy too, lived where I live in Tucson, (yes, also check out Gabor Svrcek of Tucson Art Academy as well) but now in Georgia.
BTW, doing some portraits/figures are excellent for All artists to know, that's where you learn how to draw. If you can't draw very well, then all your artwork will continue to suck, extremely badly, in any genre!! Good luck!

[@margaretelyse]

Try Stuart Davies for wonderful easy steps landscapes

[@rdendelacruz4332]

Maam, im a watercolor and oil painter artist....im craving to paint again using oils but i dont have a studio like you since our house is small and i wanted to paint a big or huge masterpiece.... What advice can you give?

[@payntpot7623]

I have been in this situation before. Try locals schools during holiday time You can pay in money or in kind (helping out during term time). Hire someone's garage for a 2 or 3 month period. Think outside the box. Even join a local class if you have one and see if you can leave the painting at the venue between times. Your local art society may have the perfect room, who knows until you ask around? I have painted under a canopy in the garden before, but the weather was warm and still for days on end. I will be keen to see what suggestions Chelsea has.

[@mikenoneofyourbusiness7122]

Paint outside of your home. No need to be stuck there.

[@deelynn8611]

Because I SUCK at painting!

[@ronracette2445]

Hi Chelsea , what kind of canvas or canvas board do you use for portrait demos ? thank you

[@ChelseaLang]

I paint on Raymar C15DP panels. :)

[@josephososkie3029]

5:40 Ain’t that the truth. I’ve learned to hate Chihuahuas.

[@ronschlorff7089]

So easy to do, without having to paint them even!!
I "learned to hate horses" after accepting doing a commission of one on, of all things, a big milk can. The horse's head is "wonky" enough to get right without having to be doing it on a cylindrical surface as well!! I still love zebras though, and have painted many of them, over the years, but all on "flat supports"!! LOL

[@josephososkie3029]

@@ronschlorff7089 so true.

[@renzo6490]

Actually......

[@saranevillerogueart9627]

I am constantly interrupted by my over needy son. Who talks loudly constantly up in my face. I need to evict him

[@mariam2964]

You raised him

[@mikenoneofyourbusiness7122]

Is he an adult? If so, YES! Evict that аsshоle.