FINDING FREEDOM IN YOUR PRACTICE
Does this sound familiar?
You’re in the midst of painting and you only know one thing for sure. You are JAMMED up.
Everything is tight.
You are critical of each and every move, every mark, each brushstroke. You feel like if you could just let loose, then you’d be onto something, but currently you hate everything you are doing.
this is completely normal and you are not alone.
I have something I want to share with you that has helped me get out of that place over and over again.
>>>My sketchbook.
Wash from your mind all those amazingly perfect sketchbooks you’ve seen on Instagram and Pinterest. That is definitely not what I’m talking about. It’s certainly not what my sketchbook looks like. My sketchbook is a place I can go where I can explore color, marks, brushes and other tools without fear of correction and editing. Where it is more than OK to just let things happen. More importantly my Sketchbook is a place where I find FREEDOM. It is inexpensive. There is no preciousness of supplies. More importantly it is a sounding board of sorts. A brainstorming session where nothing is ‘wrong’. A no rules and nothing is wrong zone.
It is one of the keys to my creating heart over head.
It unlocks the door to freedom in my practice, building a foundation that supports that freedom when I move to canvas, or panel or nicer paper.
Sketchbook Freedom is a playground and there is no teacher supervising. You get to do whatever you want without reprimand for coloring outside the lines.
And DAMN if that doesn’t feel GOOD. Which is exactly how you want to feel when you are creating because it creates more success. It strengthens your painting muscle.
Catch a glimpse of me creating in my sketchbook in the new video I just uploaded to my YouTube channel of me in midst of a Sketchbook Freedom session yesterday.
BETTER YET, make sure you are on my Art Lover’s subscribers list and you’ll receive a link to the FREE Sketchbook Freedom Class I am hosting live on Zoom next Tuesday, August 5th. We are going to let it RIP and have a ball.
Do you paint in a sketchbook? Have you painted with me? Stop searching for freedom. it’s in your sketchbook!
Are you coming?