Make your own pinterest board or have a look in you garden, balcony, in the city park, your neighbours garden (maybe ask first :) ). I love using watercolor for this, but you can use whatever you have laying around. I still love it, and I especially enjoy the sketching phase when figuring out the composition and colors. With colored pencils, watercolor, gouache or acrylic paint. Before I Deep Dived into the Abstract World I painted landscapes all the time. Maybe just make it simple if you feel intimated and draw some blobs and circles on top of each other, some ears and a cute facial expression. I’m a huge fan of the more illustrative styles, and those cute kawaii animals. I don’t have a lot of practice in drawing animals, but when I draw them it’s usually my cat and in a loose sketchy way. Maybe you find some interesting shapes to use in your paintings. This is how we figure out what we like and dislike. Just Grab your pencil and start making random shapes. Think Circles, Dots, Bean shapes, Squibbles, Lines, Wobbly Lines, Triangles, Squares, Ovals and anything in between. I’ll Just leave you with an example from my Sketchbook for you to have a look at. One of my favorite gouache paints are from Winsor and Newton. Maybe try a doodle style, or sketch with charcoal, or maybe paint them with gouache. It’s not like drawing portrait where it’s easy to see the “flaws”, trees and plants are quirky and have all different kind of shapes. I love painting and drawing plants or trees. Feel free to check out my Pinterest board on green plants or flowers. This is also a great way to practice the Art of Seeing! Which is such a good skill to have when you are an artist (no matter what kind of art you make). Your coffee mug? Do some sketching of what you see. What do you see in front of you? Different types of art materials, maybe a plant. If you Don’t feel like reading about them here I made a free Checklist of these 19 Prompts for you to Download. I hope These will Help you out as much as they help me. What do you do when you don’t know what to paint? When my brain is not working properly I use Drawing Prompts.
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