One of my hobby is that I love to paint, and sketching and maybe experiment with some new ideas to paint. For me painting is relaxing and fun. But honestly there are many things that you can learn about life through painting. when you paint or sketch. There is no a perfect way, but there is several way to be good at it.
1. Be brave
sometimes whenever you want to paint or sketch, you afraid. Fear of what is it going to be. Be brave, let your hand stroke the brush. This is the first step on your journey to paint. Like in life, whenever you have a decision to do something, be brave and took the first step to start. taking the first step is halfway journey.
2. Let it flow
Relax, Don’t fight it. Don’t fight for perfection that make you hesitate. there’s no such thing as the right way to use the brush or pencil, do experiment, use as many media that you can. Remember there is no such thing called right and wrong in art. and it also apply when you are doing something in life, there’s no such thing called right or wrong, you just got to do it even it’s not perfect it is okay, continue moving forward to achieve your goals no matter circumstances you faced. If you hesitate for the sake of perfection you will be going nowhere, because in life there’s no such thing called perfection.
3. Mistakes means creativity
Whenever i sketch, i avoided to erase wrong part, instead from that over colored, paint dripping, or unwanted trace. I started to think how to elaborate from it and created something new. That’s the beauty of mistakes.
Like in life, people make mistake, but you need to get up and recover your mistake. There’s no turning backward, the only way is to move forward and create something from that mistake to start a brand new journey.
4. Do it often
Derek Sivers on his speech in TedXJakarta tell the story about the experiment of a pottery teacher in a school did, she divided the class into two, first it is a class that their main task is to create the most beautiful pottery, and the other class their task is to create as many pottery they can. Suprisingly on the end of the semester,student from the class that making as many pottery that they can, are creating the most unique and beautiful potterry compared to the other class
Means that, when you do it often, you will get used to it, you will having more innovation, and you will having a better result. rather than try to think to paint or sketch beautifully, do it often and you will be suprised that you will create a wonderful art
5. Stop when you are ready
the curse of painting or sketching (especially if you are dissapointionist) is to know where you want to stop. Somehow you will be craving for a little detail, here and there. but when you ready, you will know where to stop and enjoy your art. And like in life, whenever you feel that you already reached your pinnacle, stop and look back on what you have done. you will be amazed on how much you grow, how much you achieved, how much the differences from that single step or first brush stroke created something remarkable
so are you ready to stroke your first brush?
by Almira Dea Rezkitha | VP Communication AIESEC Indonesia
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