Paint Until You Feel Like Painting

 This entry was originally posted on Friday, February 10, 2012.

The past few weeks I almost forgot one of the most important things I do when it comes to painting.

That is I paint until I feel like painting.

If you must know, I don't feel like painting everyday. Some days I would rather read. Or sleep. Or watch TV.

There are all sorts of excuses I have for not painting.

But because painting is my livelihood, paint I must. So I show up in my studio every morning and paint until I feel like painting.

Recently this has not worked for me. Finally I said, enough is enough. Get to work.

So I told myself that I will spend one hour in the studio painting and I will paint until I feel like painting.

And you know what?

I painted all day.

It felt good. Happy.

My tip is if you are having a hard time getting into the painting groove, paint something simple and easy. 

Tell yourself that you will paint for 15-30 min. 

Then before you know it, you feel like painting.

And you paint like mad.

 

Now I must return to my studio and my latest creation.

The Best Eraser

 This entry was originally posted on Thursday, February 9, 2012.

The best eraser to use on your watercolor paper is a kneaded eraser.

It is grey and comes in a square or rectangle shape when you buy it.

It is called a kneaded eraser because you can knead and shape it into different shapes.

So it ends up looking like a lump of clay.

What is great about it is that you can shape it into a point and erase in small areas.

It is also good to get up those smudges from the transfer paper without erasing the pencil lines you want to keep.

The best part is that the eraser is soft enough that it doesn't harm your paper.