Hi again Luc,

I’m glad you found my post helpful. 🙂

I hope you have started your ‘just for fun’ artwork. Don’t let yourself think about if it will turn out ok. Tell yourself it doesn’t matter if it turns out ok or not, that the whole point of the exercise is to simply create something that you find pleasing.

A blank canvas or piece of paper is scary for some, and for others, an invitation to create something new. Don’t let yourself think that the time you put into creating something on there might be a waste of time, effort and money for the materials… just get stuck in and create it!

All artists have a fear of failure. I attend an art club, and occasionally we have a professional artist in to do a demonstration for us. At question time, I always used to ask if these professional artists had bad days, or had their art work go wrong. Without exception, all said the same thing – yes they do have days when their art work goes into the trash, they do have days where nothing goes right. When asked what they did about this, they all answered similarly… out it goes, start again. Shrug it off.

I gained a big insight from this. No-one is perfect at art, even professionals get it wrong sometimes!  Isn’t that enlightening! 🙂