This story is about putting in place a handful of strategies to ensure that you paint in a soft colour palette, but forgetting about the power of intuition, creative flow and instinct.. and then painting with your favourite colours anyway. Every piece craves some phthalo blue and torquoise.

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If you’re a creative maker selling art prints, then this is for you. It may seem more time-efficient to find a stylised stock image from another Etsy seller, but if you just can’t find something that’s perfectly on brand and inline with your audience, then save yourself time from endless browsing, and create your own stylised stock images. In whatever frame size, orientation, and as much or as little feminine as you like.

When planning stifles your creative flow, especially in painting, then just ditch it. If planning is only stopping you from making progress on the task you want to focus on, then it’s completely missing the point. Maybe you’re just not ready to plan this task yet, maybe planning is just not that logical next step in your progress. Come back to it, if and when, it’s appropriate.

With thoughts of doubt of bright and bold colours, I decided to try my hand at an earthy colour palette. Something that could coordinate easily with a living area or lounge setting. As I painted and harboured cloudy thoughts of whether bright and bold colours should stay or go, I still wanted to convince myself that there was hope. I wanted to reassure myself that yep, There Is Always Hope.

If you’re an artist who suffers from overworking their canvas, then I’d say you have too much to say but not enough space. When you attempt to put all these thoughts onto a single canvas it looks jumbled up, messy and incoherent. Your solution is to work with multiples surfaces at the same time to ensure that you express yourself, as best you can, as an artist.