Part 1 – The experiment
Day 1: spent 10 minutes cleaning and painting undercoats on 8 small pieces of glass, then 17 minutes copy-tracing 2 images [just 2!] before deciding other things were “more important” than painting glass. Felt bored and distracted.
Day 2 … Day 3 … Day 4 … Day 5 …
Day 32: began with 60 minutes practice on light-box – thick lines, thin lines, dark lines, light lines, straight lines, squiggles, spirals, signature, various symbols, anything! Was surprised to learn an hour had passed. Then spent two hours painting a complicated roundel from start to finish without a rest. Very focussed. Couldn’t be distracted by “necessity” of other tasks.
Big change in just over a month, yes? That’s what this post is all about. It applies to everyone who doesn’t paint glass every day.
Is that you? [click to continue…]
