https://johnhaywoodwatercolours.co.uk/2024/11/20/testing-times/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=testing-times Bold, Evocative Watercolour Paintings by John Haywood Fri, 22 Nov 2024 09:26:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://johnhaywoodwatercolours.co.uk/2024/11/20/testing-times/#comment-5245 Fri, 22 Nov 2024 09:26:34 +0000 https://johnhaywoodwatercolours.co.uk/?p=14500#comment-5245 If it helps, I often find myself struggling to finish a painting but I just tell myself it’s a MAWGUN (pronounced Morgan) Moment = “might as well give up now” and, since I know I always get them in the middle of any painting, I push on through and the end is normally okay. When it feels difficult to enthuse about even starting a painting, I look for a complete change. For example, I’ll switch to a pen-and-ink drawing or just a pencil drawing or two in order to face myself with new challenges. Or I’ll find a new challenge in a new kind of subject – something I haven’t successfully painted before. So, for example, I’ll go from portraits to landscapes or animals or full-length portraits or even still-life. Another challenge is a texture or material that I haven’t really painted before – could even be a particular type of sky. One of these will usually freshen things up until I find something that I’m desperate to paint again. Good luck!

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