If one theme jumps out of this month’s issue it is the benefits of learning how to loosen up and add more bravura to our artwork. When you are still learning techniques, it can be hard to let go, but if you stop believing that every drawing or painting you make needs to be a masterpiece and spend time experimenting and following exercises and prompts you’re more likely to relax, feel less likely to give up when your painting doesn’t go to plan, and simply enjoy the process more. Setting yourself limits is one way to overcome the propensity to add too much detail and can help build that all-important confidence. Try: setting a stopwatch for five, ten or 15 minutes and complete a painting in that time; restricting the number of brushstrokes you allow yourself to use on one painting; or picking just two or three colours.
If you love watercolour and want to add a more lively effect to your paintings, follow Adrienne Parker’s advice and mix your colours on the paper, practise the wet-in-wet technique and loosen up your brushstrokes (pages 10 to 13). Steve Strode (pages 28 to 31) suggests you put down your brushes altogether and work with anything that makes a mark, from credit cards, tinfoil and tissue to crumpled paper, sponges and rags.
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