I’m sure you know the feeling. Your head is just full of creative ideas, so you simply have to paint. However, while you’re working on transferring that painting in your head to one on the canvas, fresh inspiration strikes, serendipity chips in, and you find yourself wrestling with detail, managing abstraction, and striking a balance between what you want and what you can create.
They say a painting is never finished, only abandoned, and there’s truth in that. However, I want you to consider abandoning your work to be a temporary separation, to give you time to think how things can change and get better.
Generally speaking, what ends up on the easel is most likely nothing like the original picture you had in your head. Nevertheless, it’s important to…