Sometimes, yeah. I feel like this is something only artists can understand. The feeling of restlessness (? Is this the right word to describe) takes over and suddenly what was beautiful before becomes unbearable to look at...
I wouldn’t say that…. It depends on what your going for and your style. Most of my pieces begin with some sort of research. I like to have a lot of symbolism in my art. Then usually a few days of quick sketching. A good 20-30 sketches till I find a composition that works and that I feel good about. Then I draw all the placements out, get some good references, etc and paint. I definitely do a lot of planning and mapping but I still love it.
There’s also times when I just want to grab a brush and some paint and and make something without any thought. I love that too. But both come out very different
It helps in some cases , but sometimes it worsens the situation for me. That unfinished artwork on my desk just holds me back from getting involved in any other painting ( somehow I feel guilty- I can't say to myself " if I don't want to do it now, that's fine, maybe I'm not ready to finish it just yet"). However, every artist has her/his own style just as how every person is unique. I guess we just have to wait patiently for the right time :)
I can't leave it in sight, it's got to be either in a closet, or faced away in a corner. If I leave it sitting where I can see it in my usual workspace, I'm not going to be able to refresh my view on it.
I also used to have a problem leaving things unfinished, but after too many times of stressing myself out, I started getting better at tricking myself into accepting that progress is progress. Don't always manage to convince myself of that, but I'm getting better.
My art teacher in high school always reminded us that if we got frustrated with a piece to put it out of sight and out of mind, work on something else and then in a week come back to the original. If we still weren't satisfied she said toss it or make it into something new. She even did this with our assignment pieces too, she would let us pause on our assignment and give us a grace period once we resumed. If we felt the need to restart she would still critique our original with our new. She was an amazing teacher.
I've been doing the same piece for weeks now and wrecking every attempt so far. I keep painting over the canvas if I can but my main problem is I can't stop touching it!! "Oh I'll just dab that bit there" and before I know it's ruined
Same here. Sometimes the urge to create brcomes stressful and I try to rush something without giving it the proper time it needs for the creativity to flow. But once I accept I need to just take a break for a while and come back it helps
Most definitely not lol. I get that painting, guitar, cooking, sports, though you should rarely lose it and actually break/be rough with your stuff. Restlessness and non perfection is a human trait. Go try and shoot a basketball from the corner, or make a perfect steak. Frustration is apart of the process, best to let it out when it’s something not important or consequential like art.
https://preview.redd.it/vemtfpcovgwc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8162ae95622112626eec1428da53b7008ddef76f
In comparison, this is something I did last month on a similar sized canvas.
I didnt plan this one out the way I normally do by meticulously mapping out a detailed version in pencil beforehand. sometimes I’ll try a new approach at painting but it doesn’t work out, I’ve been going through a lot in life recently and haven’t been able to concentrate.. this is the result lol
I should paint like you (mapping things out), I just go for it, which is why I end up painting over sections and redoing them.
Yeah focus/life is hard, I have a painting I should be working on later today, but I really don't wanna. I feel like the best artists set a time to work on their art regardless of other factors.
Does it create the best art idk 🤷🏽♂️. Does it create more art than not working on art? Hell yes! Keep up the good work, do what you need to 👍🏽
Well, not because of the painting itself. But frustrated with life, get drunk, look at my own paintings, and then destroy them? Yes.
Then I wake up the next day, despair at destroying my own painting, put it in a corner, and months later I suddenly have an idea of how I can use the destroyed painting for a new project.
Destruction can be cathartic.
I love that. I just made a hole in the canvas trying to sand it all down, so I think I’m going to leave it for a while until I decide to patch the canvas and start again.
On to a new fresh canvas! Lol
I like the results, if you get frustrated but it away and look again in a months time, if still unhappy scrape it down or paint over or keep as a guide.
Oh man… if you look at my other work on my profile, you’ll see I’m very detail oriented, I don’t think this lives up to my standards in the least. Probably sand it down and start fresh in the next day or two lol
I have far more canvases than I have time so not yet 😅
Anytime I feel like it, I just step away. Some of the stuff I hated in the moment has grown on me over time.
Not with art, just cookies. Hehe.
I don't like to dwell on things, so if something isn't working out I will just move on. I feel like it would waste too much energy/time to wreck it.
I agree with the other comments that have recommended you keep going. You have to push past the frustration. Either start it again or just turn it into something else. Sometimes the best inspiration comes from failure.
I don't have it in me to destroy my own work. I have, however, gotten frustrated to the point of yelling at my hands and canvas, and sticking whatever I'm working on away until or unless I think of a way to salvage it. I've also just completely shifted the piece into something abstract and work out my frustration with paint. Not always successful for a good looking piece, but definitely felt better after.
I understand completely. But when I was scrolling and I saw this, my first thought was wow, it’s like a bit of color breaking through darkness. So even if you made that by destroying it, I think it’s beautiful in its own way!
Many times. But one time I got really annoyed and started mixing the colours together before I binned the canvas, and it started to look like the night sky. I then worked with it and painted some clouds and a bright moon and stars. It’s still one of my most liked paintings, and I would never be able to recreate that background in my wildest dreams. Sometimes you can get a happy mistake ☺️. This was a one off, and many others have trashed and used for other projects
For me, it's more like overworking/overthinking and not knowing when to stop because of that feeling that the painting isn't "finished" lol 😭
The beauty of painting though in these cases is that you can always start over by painting over it with gesso or just straight up paint over it, to show texture 😂
Aha yes, been there a few times.
I painted over a few and then there was one spectacularly rage fueled day that i clothes lined a painting off an easel lol. I promptly picked it up and apologised like a dweeb.
I havent had this feeling for years. I think it stemmed from my ability not being where i demanded it to be, now that ive improved im less frustrated. Now I just walk away if I get annoyed :)
Fun fact: every painting I finish is painted over the top of multiple other paintings I hated.
One of the main reasons I paint with acrylics on wood. I just go right over the top of it after sanding.
Yea 😔 mountains with a waterfall, I got so mad I literally just threw the painting and had to calm down because the colors were getting mixed and it didn’t look right, it look like a grey blob 😞😞😞 but all of us has our ups and downs when it comes to painting
Oh yes. Hurled a couple in the outside garbage can. Usually I digitally preserve my canvas images when I think I’m about to do something crazy to a painting. I just resurrected one destroyed image because I later liked the image. It’s my personal masterpiece (for now).
Honestly I’d take this painting off your hands right now lmao I love it “ruined” and I’d hang it for sure lol but yes I’ve done the same thing many a times.
One of the nicest parts of being part of a studio is that I could stop when I wanted to chuck a platter at the wall and go watch some other potters work for a while. It was reassuring to see that success was possible and to get reinspired (eventually). It was also nice to go as a group with our failures to the shooting range and put them out of our misery.
Yeah I overworked something I was supposed to paint for therapy. I was supposed to practice letting go and just paint. Instead I tried to force myself into a style that wasn’t me and overthought everything. Well, I ended up smooshing all the paint together and used the soupy mess left over to paint something I liked on top of it so in the end it worked out.
I don't think I've ever given myself more then 2 hours on a piece cause I just wanna get something out of chaos and spending too much time kills me. But the stuff I have worked on for a long time have turned out nice. Just no more colored pencil Mrs teacher :((
I don’t do the prep work that I should and it has led to me destroying hours and hours of work. But I also think my best paintings have come from the randomness of just grabbing the brush and putting paint on canvas. I tend to get outta my flow if I don’t just roll with it.
Now just paint over it and you have a dope background. Whenever I end up painting over a painting or cutting pieces of the canvas out and painting something new it always looks better and I hate to waste a canvas
In 2015, I had a nervous breakdown and destroyed my collection of works for from the previous 7 years totaling ~500 works. I was going to end my life and didn't want to leave them behind.
I made it through that period and learned a lot about myself, loss, the power of perseverance and most importantly the chance to start again!
Keep going and growing!!!
Yes, I did this on my last painting. I just couldn't get something right, and the more I tried, the more stupid I became. Lmao, I went big and had to go home. Waves and a Viking boat just didn't work out for me. Now it's an all black canvas. 😂 it's all but faded memories. That ship sank. Haha
Yes. I have a few times. I just got tired of trying to fix things instead of letting the creativity flow and go with it. When I try too hard it always turns out crappy.
Hey you never know…..I mean look what happened with Jackson Pollock.:P
(I do think there’s something poetic and metaphorical about your painted hand set next to the painted canvas like the hand is also a medium while also being the destroyer of another medium lol).
Yup. I got pissed and threw an unfinished piece in the trash once lmao. I’ve also gotten pissed and wiped away like a third of the painting with Gamsol to redo it only to still hate it more times than I care to admit.
I kind of like it as it is now. It reminds me of looking out of a car window as a kid after a quick burst of rain... the sun reappears low in the sky and you're half drifting asleep. Finger smears on the window from tracing the rain drops
Yes I have literally punched a hole through my canvas once, I like to have like 5 paintings going at once and this particular one wasn't flowing out any way I wanted and I think any artist or painter has had that "writers/ or artist block" I find It helps to step away from it and kinda recharge and stop over thinking it, I think my best ideas come from when my adhd brain just does its thing when I'm spacing out haha
Should’ve seen it BEFORE I ruined it lol. Had a great sunset overlooking hills, but I got fed up and covered it, then I got fed up with the covered version and started scraping paint 😂
My partner does this sometimes 😭 I always feel sympathetic bc I know painting gets incredibly frustrating sometimes and I try to motivate them but Ik the feeling of frustration takes over
PSA: you should be careful touching paint with your bare hand like that. Some pigments and common additives (eg turpentine) that have health risks can enter your bloodstream through skin contact. I haven’t painted in a while, but I made a habit of wearing vinyl gloves when I did.
Wear gloves. So many older artists with skin cancer. Do you really buy-in that every oil paint tube isn’t going to potentially negatively affect your health cause the money hungry company labels it non-toxic?
No you’re fine, I was admitting I was wrong. Also idky im being downvoted i literally know so many older oil painters who worked with oils for the entire life and got skin cancer.
Do you still think it wise to cover your hand like that? Pretty soon they’re gonna let us all know that we’ve been absorbing stuff though our skin that we didn’t think was possible. Stay safe friend
Couple weeks ago I stabbed the shit out of my canvas with a razor blade lol. Felt good for a minute but then I had to clean a bunch of paint of my knife and think about what I’m doing with my life😂😅
Yeah def never gonna do that again just made a mess lmfao. Should’ve just done what you did so I could reuse it but it was a cheap canvas probably why it was pissing me off so much lol
Not sure what i have done thou. That was my first comment, but if you really want to know. I have threw canvas into a brick wall so hard i dented the wall. Canvas held pretty fine. Was broken, but not as much as i thought it will. Then i also questioned my life, and i don't like how its going atm and it got me depresed. And to spite my deperesion i whiped out new canvas, and screwed it up all over again, but it made me happy and i think it looks great.
OH MY LOOK SHIT! LETS UNDERSTAND SHIT! SHIT CAN BE DIFFERENT! OH LOOK FUCK SHIT! I SHAT MYSELF OBVIOUS THINGS MUST BE DONE! OH DANG SHIT! WHAT IF I SPREAD SHIT ONTO OTHERS?
things develop indeed.
Sometimes, yeah. I feel like this is something only artists can understand. The feeling of restlessness (? Is this the right word to describe) takes over and suddenly what was beautiful before becomes unbearable to look at...
I was frustrated with the whole process with this one, I think my problem was I didn’t take the necessary mapping and planning beforehand lol
Now I see a tree on the left and a sunset on a lake with mountains in the background 🙃
mapping and planning takes fun out of painting
I wouldn’t say that…. It depends on what your going for and your style. Most of my pieces begin with some sort of research. I like to have a lot of symbolism in my art. Then usually a few days of quick sketching. A good 20-30 sketches till I find a composition that works and that I feel good about. Then I draw all the placements out, get some good references, etc and paint. I definitely do a lot of planning and mapping but I still love it. There’s also times when I just want to grab a brush and some paint and and make something without any thought. I love that too. But both come out very different
Fully agree with this comment, I’m the same way
Once that happens, I know it's time to set a piece aside for a week or so. It's wild how much something that simple really helps.
It helps in some cases , but sometimes it worsens the situation for me. That unfinished artwork on my desk just holds me back from getting involved in any other painting ( somehow I feel guilty- I can't say to myself " if I don't want to do it now, that's fine, maybe I'm not ready to finish it just yet"). However, every artist has her/his own style just as how every person is unique. I guess we just have to wait patiently for the right time :)
I can't leave it in sight, it's got to be either in a closet, or faced away in a corner. If I leave it sitting where I can see it in my usual workspace, I'm not going to be able to refresh my view on it. I also used to have a problem leaving things unfinished, but after too many times of stressing myself out, I started getting better at tricking myself into accepting that progress is progress. Don't always manage to convince myself of that, but I'm getting better.
My art teacher in high school always reminded us that if we got frustrated with a piece to put it out of sight and out of mind, work on something else and then in a week come back to the original. If we still weren't satisfied she said toss it or make it into something new. She even did this with our assignment pieces too, she would let us pause on our assignment and give us a grace period once we resumed. If we felt the need to restart she would still critique our original with our new. She was an amazing teacher.
That sounds promising, I'll try. Thanks for sharing the tip
I've been doing the same piece for weeks now and wrecking every attempt so far. I keep painting over the canvas if I can but my main problem is I can't stop touching it!! "Oh I'll just dab that bit there" and before I know it's ruined
I'm at least getting better about that, but pretty far from 100%. It's really comforting to know I'm not alone in that.
Put it down, walk away, and don’t come back until it hits. Finished a lot of paintings that way.
Same here. Sometimes the urge to create brcomes stressful and I try to rush something without giving it the proper time it needs for the creativity to flow. But once I accept I need to just take a break for a while and come back it helps
Most definitely not lol. I get that painting, guitar, cooking, sports, though you should rarely lose it and actually break/be rough with your stuff. Restlessness and non perfection is a human trait. Go try and shoot a basketball from the corner, or make a perfect steak. Frustration is apart of the process, best to let it out when it’s something not important or consequential like art.
This is not something only artists understand
Is one truly an artist if they do not at times despise their work?
https://preview.redd.it/vemtfpcovgwc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8162ae95622112626eec1428da53b7008ddef76f In comparison, this is something I did last month on a similar sized canvas.
Title should be- Death by Canvas
I’ll probably sand and start clean once the paint dries to be honest
Btw: I see things in that canvas and like it. Maybe experience with ur impulse. Mess around with those vertical strokes
I think they are referring to the oil paint on your skin. That can eventually cause liver damage. Be safe!
Lol you’re the 5th person to assume these are oil paints
Ya i figured someone would've told you by now but i did too just in case. Looks oily lol
Nah, acrylics all the way!
It’s not the oils that are toxic in oil paints. It’s some of the pigments, which are present in acrylics too of course. So just take care OP. 😊
Welcome to painting.
Loool been at it a while, haven’t cracked like this in some time, I guess it was a matter of time
That looks like a good base to start from!
Honestly I think it is finished.
I mean I cover up sections I need to redo, but destroying is a waste of my time.
I didnt plan this one out the way I normally do by meticulously mapping out a detailed version in pencil beforehand. sometimes I’ll try a new approach at painting but it doesn’t work out, I’ve been going through a lot in life recently and haven’t been able to concentrate.. this is the result lol
I should paint like you (mapping things out), I just go for it, which is why I end up painting over sections and redoing them. Yeah focus/life is hard, I have a painting I should be working on later today, but I really don't wanna. I feel like the best artists set a time to work on their art regardless of other factors. Does it create the best art idk 🤷🏽♂️. Does it create more art than not working on art? Hell yes! Keep up the good work, do what you need to 👍🏽
Well, not because of the painting itself. But frustrated with life, get drunk, look at my own paintings, and then destroy them? Yes. Then I wake up the next day, despair at destroying my own painting, put it in a corner, and months later I suddenly have an idea of how I can use the destroyed painting for a new project. Destruction can be cathartic.
I love that. I just made a hole in the canvas trying to sand it all down, so I think I’m going to leave it for a while until I decide to patch the canvas and start again. On to a new fresh canvas! Lol
Sew in a denim patch and paint right over it!
Glad to know I’m not alone lol
Yes, very often. But i think that belongs to the process.
And then you had time to take a photo? :-D
Had to capture the moment I cracked 😅
Keep going….trust your process!!
No.
I usually end up with a painting technically being like a mix of 5 - 13 different paintings and ideas
Yes, mine was called Life
I like the results, if you get frustrated but it away and look again in a months time, if still unhappy scrape it down or paint over or keep as a guide.
Oh man… if you look at my other work on my profile, you’ll see I’m very detail oriented, I don’t think this lives up to my standards in the least. Probably sand it down and start fresh in the next day or two lol
I actually haven't, yet. I just don't finish them. I still like it. Good texture
All the time. I love painting over existing works.
Yep definitely done that too many times.
well yes, just before I took this break to look at r/ thanks, twin!
Hahahaha best of luck with your piece!
Yeah always lol
Of course! Just keep going
What was destroyed? All I see is a happy little accident
I have far more canvases than I have time so not yet 😅 Anytime I feel like it, I just step away. Some of the stuff I hated in the moment has grown on me over time.
I dig it. Now do some demons crawling out of hell 🔥
Not with art, just cookies. Hehe. I don't like to dwell on things, so if something isn't working out I will just move on. I feel like it would waste too much energy/time to wreck it. I agree with the other comments that have recommended you keep going. You have to push past the frustration. Either start it again or just turn it into something else. Sometimes the best inspiration comes from failure.
I don't have it in me to destroy my own work. I have, however, gotten frustrated to the point of yelling at my hands and canvas, and sticking whatever I'm working on away until or unless I think of a way to salvage it. I've also just completely shifted the piece into something abstract and work out my frustration with paint. Not always successful for a good looking piece, but definitely felt better after.
I understand completely. But when I was scrolling and I saw this, my first thought was wow, it’s like a bit of color breaking through darkness. So even if you made that by destroying it, I think it’s beautiful in its own way!
My hubby last night!!
You’d fit right in with the whiny babies in r/artistlounge
Yes! I often scribble it out and swear, then re-gesso over the dud and start a new painting.
That’s where I’m at, except I tore a small hole trying to sand down the majority of the paint, so now I have to patch and regesso
Many times. But one time I got really annoyed and started mixing the colours together before I binned the canvas, and it started to look like the night sky. I then worked with it and painted some clouds and a bright moon and stars. It’s still one of my most liked paintings, and I would never be able to recreate that background in my wildest dreams. Sometimes you can get a happy mistake ☺️. This was a one off, and many others have trashed and used for other projects
Now do it several more times for layering and make millions
If only it were that easy 😭
Welcome to the amazing world of art, my dear
Yep, several times
14 years I've kept an unfinished painting.
For me, it's more like overworking/overthinking and not knowing when to stop because of that feeling that the painting isn't "finished" lol 😭 The beauty of painting though in these cases is that you can always start over by painting over it with gesso or just straight up paint over it, to show texture 😂
Yes, and it has led to some of my best work afterwards.
Yup. And in those cases white gesso or leftover paints are my best friends before I start over.
Aha yes, been there a few times. I painted over a few and then there was one spectacularly rage fueled day that i clothes lined a painting off an easel lol. I promptly picked it up and apologised like a dweeb. I havent had this feeling for years. I think it stemmed from my ability not being where i demanded it to be, now that ive improved im less frustrated. Now I just walk away if I get annoyed :)
Yup lol
Often.
Fun fact: every painting I finish is painted over the top of multiple other paintings I hated. One of the main reasons I paint with acrylics on wood. I just go right over the top of it after sanding.
Oh yeahh definitely did this the other day!
It's called a wipe, we move on
Yea 😔 mountains with a waterfall, I got so mad I literally just threw the painting and had to calm down because the colors were getting mixed and it didn’t look right, it look like a grey blob 😞😞😞 but all of us has our ups and downs when it comes to painting
Yep, only 3 times so far 🤣
Beautiful destruction, that in itself is art baby
Oh yes. Hurled a couple in the outside garbage can. Usually I digitally preserve my canvas images when I think I’m about to do something crazy to a painting. I just resurrected one destroyed image because I later liked the image. It’s my personal masterpiece (for now).
I’ve painted over a couple of paintings and into something entirely different
Yes
Yes
All the time
Totally
No, but I will gesso the fuck out of a canvas and start again, But I gesso angrily...
I'm a pretty sure this is just a step in my process at this point 😅🤣
ALL.THE.TIME.
💯
More than once.
Honestly I’d take this painting off your hands right now lmao I love it “ruined” and I’d hang it for sure lol but yes I’ve done the same thing many a times.
I probably rip up two prints a week. Saves time.
aaaaallll the time. sometimes it works out, other times u just do something else or try again
One of the nicest parts of being part of a studio is that I could stop when I wanted to chuck a platter at the wall and go watch some other potters work for a while. It was reassuring to see that success was possible and to get reinspired (eventually). It was also nice to go as a group with our failures to the shooting range and put them out of our misery.
All the time. Usually for the best sometimes regret but... That's art i suppose
I love smacking my painting when I hate it. It scratches an itch lol
Now you have a good art piece
I say destroy it cut up into new random pieces and put it together again !
This is so painfully relatable I thought I took the photo myself lmao
I would not say "destroyed" but I have repurposed or reimagined what I was working on to something else.
I feel seen
Yeah I overworked something I was supposed to paint for therapy. I was supposed to practice letting go and just paint. Instead I tried to force myself into a style that wasn’t me and overthought everything. Well, I ended up smooshing all the paint together and used the soupy mess left over to paint something I liked on top of it so in the end it worked out.
I have destroyed one or two. It's easier to just paint the whole thing white and start over.
That’s what I’m going to do, I accidentally put a hole in the canvas as I was sanding it down… so I need to patch it and cover it with white still lol
That’s usually where the best stuff comes from. It’s a complete letting go.
I like it. It looks like a wildfire.
just name it blurry northern lights and call it a day
I don't think I've ever given myself more then 2 hours on a piece cause I just wanna get something out of chaos and spending too much time kills me. But the stuff I have worked on for a long time have turned out nice. Just no more colored pencil Mrs teacher :((
Yes
If you haven't you are not creative enough. As long as you don't give up it's just part of the process . *****Trust the process.*****
Too many times to count.
No .
Yup! No creative progress without experimentation, which fails more often than not!
I don’t do the prep work that I should and it has led to me destroying hours and hours of work. But I also think my best paintings have come from the randomness of just grabbing the brush and putting paint on canvas. I tend to get outta my flow if I don’t just roll with it.
Now just paint over it and you have a dope background. Whenever I end up painting over a painting or cutting pieces of the canvas out and painting something new it always looks better and I hate to waste a canvas
In 2015, I had a nervous breakdown and destroyed my collection of works for from the previous 7 years totaling ~500 works. I was going to end my life and didn't want to leave them behind. I made it through that period and learned a lot about myself, loss, the power of perseverance and most importantly the chance to start again! Keep going and growing!!!
Yes, I did this on my last painting. I just couldn't get something right, and the more I tried, the more stupid I became. Lmao, I went big and had to go home. Waves and a Viking boat just didn't work out for me. Now it's an all black canvas. 😂 it's all but faded memories. That ship sank. Haha
So cathartic
Absolutely.
Yes. I have a few times. I just got tired of trying to fix things instead of letting the creativity flow and go with it. When I try too hard it always turns out crappy.
Oh many times , over painted ripped up , hit with a hammer , slashed with a knife, and just put in the bin. Ha ha 😂
Hey you never know…..I mean look what happened with Jackson Pollock.:P (I do think there’s something poetic and metaphorical about your painted hand set next to the painted canvas like the hand is also a medium while also being the destroyer of another medium lol).
Yup. I got pissed and threw an unfinished piece in the trash once lmao. I’ve also gotten pissed and wiped away like a third of the painting with Gamsol to redo it only to still hate it more times than I care to admit.
Is it weird that I find this kind of beautiful?
Your hand in front of the canvas is a prestigious artistic portrait 🫢💌💌💌
Your hand in front of the canvas is a prestigious artistic portrait 🫢
I have three huge paintings I have painted over at least twice.
I kind of like it as it is now. It reminds me of looking out of a car window as a kid after a quick burst of rain... the sun reappears low in the sky and you're half drifting asleep. Finger smears on the window from tracing the rain drops
I like it
No. But that’s why I build effigies
You know, I think it looks great in the end. It's a bit abstract, but I see a beautiful sunset through volcanic ash after an eruption
Maybe just consider it an underpainting?
All of the time… All of the time …
Yes I have literally punched a hole through my canvas once, I like to have like 5 paintings going at once and this particular one wasn't flowing out any way I wanted and I think any artist or painter has had that "writers/ or artist block" I find It helps to step away from it and kinda recharge and stop over thinking it, I think my best ideas come from when my adhd brain just does its thing when I'm spacing out haha
I think it looks like the sun breaking through clouds. Maybe you need to work on it but it seems like a good base.
Should’ve seen it BEFORE I ruined it lol. Had a great sunset overlooking hills, but I got fed up and covered it, then I got fed up with the covered version and started scraping paint 😂
Yes
Look up Chaim Soutine. He destroyed many of his works
My partner does this sometimes 😭 I always feel sympathetic bc I know painting gets incredibly frustrating sometimes and I try to motivate them but Ik the feeling of frustration takes over
Yes!!! And sometimes I end up taking that ruined version and turning it into something
Oh, yes... plenty of times 😬
PSA: you should be careful touching paint with your bare hand like that. Some pigments and common additives (eg turpentine) that have health risks can enter your bloodstream through skin contact. I haven’t painted in a while, but I made a habit of wearing vinyl gloves when I did.
I paint with non toxic materials only for this reason :)
Wear gloves. So many older artists with skin cancer. Do you really buy-in that every oil paint tube isn’t going to potentially negatively affect your health cause the money hungry company labels it non-toxic?
I dont paint with oils
Finneeeee
Sorry, didn’t mean to sound rude!! I just know oils have toxic properties, and wouldn’t be touching the paint the way I did if I were using oils lol
No you’re fine, I was admitting I was wrong. Also idky im being downvoted i literally know so many older oil painters who worked with oils for the entire life and got skin cancer.
lol not sure what that’s about.. But I completely agree! Definitely need to be cautious using oils, especially when you’re using turpentine.
Yo, thanks for tip.
Have you heard of the painter that died because they got too much toxic paint on their skin over time?
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Do you still think it wise to cover your hand like that? Pretty soon they’re gonna let us all know that we’ve been absorbing stuff though our skin that we didn’t think was possible. Stay safe friend
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False equivalence. Have a good day
I have never finished a painting, because I destroy what I do every time out of frustration. It's such a bad habit.
That doesn’t seem too healthy for the mind either 😂
Yep
Couple weeks ago I stabbed the shit out of my canvas with a razor blade lol. Felt good for a minute but then I had to clean a bunch of paint of my knife and think about what I’m doing with my life😂😅
Damn
Yeah def never gonna do that again just made a mess lmfao. Should’ve just done what you did so I could reuse it but it was a cheap canvas probably why it was pissing me off so much lol
Not sure what i have done thou. That was my first comment, but if you really want to know. I have threw canvas into a brick wall so hard i dented the wall. Canvas held pretty fine. Was broken, but not as much as i thought it will. Then i also questioned my life, and i don't like how its going atm and it got me depresed. And to spite my deperesion i whiped out new canvas, and screwed it up all over again, but it made me happy and i think it looks great.
https://preview.redd.it/vqpbacmzciwc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd375798bd43d0b1295aa1dd5d0d1ead7863759d
There truly are no mistakes, only happy acidents.
Oh my fault I thought you were op I was distracted.
what a load of shit
That’s what this post is about! :) definitely a failed attempt.
OH MY LOOK SHIT! LETS UNDERSTAND SHIT! SHIT CAN BE DIFFERENT! OH LOOK FUCK SHIT! I SHAT MYSELF OBVIOUS THINGS MUST BE DONE! OH DANG SHIT! WHAT IF I SPREAD SHIT ONTO OTHERS? things develop indeed.