Before I took the Find Your Joy course in 2021, I was paralyzed by self doubt and perfectionism. I’m one of the ones whose perfectionism is rooted in childhood programming. Louise’s course showed me how to break out of that childhood mould, and I’m now having the time of my life painting. I’ve never had so much fun in my life, and I’m SO thankful for you, Louise! ❤️
@ThisPaintingLife
2 жыл бұрын
I'm glad you had fun!
@ellenwilliams6406
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you again. I think we all need this reminder. I am so grateful that you are willing to share all your wisdom. After watching you and a few other artists with your similar belief/attitude, I can confidently say that I have an art studio/room and not a craft room; that I am an artist, not making art or doing crafty things, and I can walk in my studio every day knowing that no matter what, I will have fun and do what I love. Always hoping that something I really like happens but not worrying that it may not. That is when the magic happens. Can’t wait for the course to start!
@markwilson4710
2 жыл бұрын
I'm new to abstract painting and as I progress, I find myself not being as loose, trying to accomplish something a bit more refined. Then I got to the point when I started liking something, I was afraid to continue for fear of messing it up. I know this is self defeating, and you message confirms my feelings. Thanks for the pep talk and suggestions to push through.
@ThisPaintingLife
2 жыл бұрын
My pleasure!
@brigitteshantieaglemeare4350
2 жыл бұрын
This resonated very deeply with me, even though perfectionism is not my block. It is the 70% of unloved outcome that I find so hard to accept. It keeps me from finding the joy, keeps me from even wanting to try. I have found a lot of joy in art that "makes itself", like eco dye and geli printing and suchlike. In that way beautiful things can develop and I can see them and work with them. I have produced a lot of art that way that I really like. However, to grow as an artist I need to involve myself more. At least I have that urge somehow. As soon as I pick up a tool and paints, I do not know what to do and rarely produce something that is meaningful to me or that I even like. I can't wait for the course to begin.
@kerryklaassen
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your lovely chat, Louise! I tend to be rather frugal, and I think for me I am reluctant to "waste" paint and paper. That really doesn't make sense, though, since it is part of the learning process. My new resolve is going to be to create paintings. No judgement, no hesitation, just make a painting. I might even set a timer. I am so looking forward to your taster course!!!!
@ThisPaintingLife
2 жыл бұрын
You can do it!
@carmenjones864
Жыл бұрын
Thank you louise ,your insight into how we think as artists is incredible. This video has been sooooooo helpful for me. I am looking forward to doing your FYJ course again in September
@ThisPaintingLife
Жыл бұрын
So glad to have you Carmen!
@CraftybyToni
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much I think this is one of the many things I struggle with I’m always doubting myself believing I’m not good enough but I also love there’s no restrictions no rules
@robfuzz
2 жыл бұрын
You are helping me SO much. I joined your Tribe today!
@ThisPaintingLife
2 жыл бұрын
So glad to be able to help!
@gillyslikejillysart7458
8 ай бұрын
Louise this was so, so, helpful. I have a nasty perfectionism streak running through everything I do, which I am working on. This was so helpful to hear, particularly for my art. Expecting 50-70 percent of my work in my studio to not work out was a relief. Thank you so much!
@ThisPaintingLife
8 ай бұрын
I think we all battle that at times! We just have to remember we aren't meant to get it perfect every time because that's what helps us to learn. ❤
@joanneleclerc4168
Жыл бұрын
I love mixing colours, you get so many different colours and your own! Love these!💓
@ThisPaintingLife
Жыл бұрын
I love mixing colours too! It's one of my favorite things to do! ♥
@piakelley7477
2 жыл бұрын
I love these Q&A’s. You just have a way of hitting the mail on the head with all of them. One of my issues is thinking if I buy this product or this tool it will certainly make me a better artist. I wonder if other artists have experienced this? Thank you Louise for you guidance and support. See you in class! ❤️
@ellenwilliams6406
2 жыл бұрын
I used to think that but have found that limiting my supplies has made my art better. And some of my favorite tools are regular household items.
@piakelley7477
2 жыл бұрын
@@ellenwilliams6406 I am learning that now! I’ve only been painting about a year. Thank you for your comment. ❤️
@sarahruns262
2 жыл бұрын
All. The. Time. Then, when I had all the right tools, it was my art studio that I needed to fix. Once I fixed that, then, I'd be a better artist. ;) Sometimes doing this stuff helps us because we get excited about making art again, using our shiny new tools or painting in our new studio, but the magic is in actually doing the work, right? I'm still learning this daily.
@karentomlinson4453
2 жыл бұрын
Yes! Just 'crack on' get started and paint! I needed to hear this today! Thank you...
@ThisPaintingLife
2 жыл бұрын
You are so welcome!
@mimiii4812
2 жыл бұрын
This is a message I really needed to hear. I will work on one part of a sketch for hours and I need to learn to just let go!
@ThisPaintingLife
2 жыл бұрын
You really do - you will have so much more fun!
@tailsfan465
Жыл бұрын
Hey, thank you for making this video! Been struggling myself, for 3 years at this point. Im finally starting to break the cycle, and thank you for this video as it also is helping.
@ThisPaintingLife
Жыл бұрын
You are so very welcome and good luck! ♥
@karenkostoff4904
2 жыл бұрын
OMG. Thank you for this. I had no idea, this is truly my problem in art as well as in life. LOL! Great response and look forward to starting your course.
@ThisPaintingLife
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@KATLABELLE1
2 жыл бұрын
Art is about the artist's feelings, a cathartic way to express the unexpressible. NOT a product one produces at will, in a certain way, over and over, to please anyone else. I tend to fall in a trance and finish whatever am doing when it tells me "Am finished" :) ALWAYS amazed by the end result ... I paint for myself. Excellent therapy :)
@judybrass3068
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Louise! It's so reassuring to hear that even professional artists don't produce their best work every time they take up their brushes. I'm slowly coming to terms with allowing myself to just try things out rather than aiming every time for a great result. My pile of pictures destined for the scrap heap may be growing but I feel I still learn a lot whilst having a go and I love every minute of trying!
@ThisPaintingLife
2 жыл бұрын
So true!
@nowyourSPIRITisFREE
2 жыл бұрын
Dear Louise, last year I did your taster week. I had so much joy and loveee the 'outcome'. Still some of my pictures witch give me the most joy to look at 😍 Thank you 💞
@ThisPaintingLife
2 жыл бұрын
Wonderful!
@63artemisia63
2 жыл бұрын
Great timing. I’m rereading Appetites: Why Woman Want by Carolyn Knapp. Based on what I remember, perfectionism is not just the bane of artists but also the bane of women, imposed over our lifetimes, beginning very early, by the formidable forces of society, patriarchal society in particular. If we afraid to begin a painting, a master’s degree program, the Appalachian Trial hike, the job that seems wildly exciting but also overwhelming, then we don’t begin. We stay put. We hold very still. We breathe very quietly. We even speak very quietly and carefully. We don’t call attention to ourselves or cause trouble or make demands. And society pats us on the back by letting us be that version of ourselves so it can forget about us. But the wanting, the yearning, the APPETITE for adventure or bigger and bolder and wilder never goes away. We won’t go to jail for making a big(ger), wild(er) painting. Our friends and loved ones won’t abandon us. Nobody will flog us, not literally anyway. We won’t get fired. Our pension checks won’t stop. It’s just a big, messy painting … isn’t it?
@sequoia4520
2 жыл бұрын
Very well said, Lynn, and so true! Thank you for posting your thoughts. I will search out Carolyn Knapp's book.
@ThisPaintingLife
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for adding that in! Very well stated!
@p.k.carlson6646
2 жыл бұрын
Wow! That was dead on, Louise! When you said something like - maybe you try to be perfect in most areas of your life - but that doesn’t work in producing art because of its process nature- that really hit the nail on the head because as a perfectionist I’ve been focussed on a perfect end result as a measure of how well the art process is going instead of becoming more perfect at sticking with the process no matter how well or badly it’s going that day. And more importantly, being perfect at trusting the process and going back at it the next day if things went badly the day before. If I were more perfect at those two things - they would enhance rather than hold back my progress and enjoyment of the process. Thanks for the coaching.
@ThisPaintingLife
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@christineterry9681
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for your encouragement and permission to be imperfect! Art for me is first and foremost an adventure in finding out what is inside me...sometimes,though I do get hung up on wanting to make it, maybe not perfect, but at least 'look good' not just in my eyes but in others'. Then I a light bulb clicks on and I remember my 'adventure of discovery' and get curious again. I'm really looking forward to your workshop!!
@ThisPaintingLife
2 жыл бұрын
Best of luck!
@lisaengel-franklin8594
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video.... This is the 2nd time I've heard a talk on this subject of PERFECTIONISM and I never realized that it was my major problem. This is the ONE thing that has made me NOT do my art for the last 15 yrs. I've been an art student my whole life, even going to college for it and receiving my degree in ART. Thank you for speaking on this.
@ThisPaintingLife
2 жыл бұрын
You are so welcome!
@toniweberstudio
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you Louise! So spot on. I’m a long time listener of Art Juice and always enjoy hearing you and Alice’s conversations :) I signed up for your free Joy course, can’t wait!
@ThisPaintingLife
2 жыл бұрын
Wonderful!
@jameshopkins7507
2 жыл бұрын
"Perfect" is the enemy of "good". "Good" is the launching pad for "better". "Better" is the fun of it all. If everything we created was perfect from the start, where would be the joy in that? I am a writer, not a painter, but when I write something better than I ever did before it brings me joy and satisfaction - and the excitement of knowing that there is better yet to come. Louise, thank you so much for sharing. I learn so much from your videos, applicable to many art forms.
@ThisPaintingLife
2 жыл бұрын
Did you hear our podcast episode with my friend who is a novelist? I think you'd enjoy it www.louisefletcherart.com/podcast/living-a-creative-life-art-juice
@jameshopkins7507
2 жыл бұрын
@@ThisPaintingLife Thank you! I will check it out!
@jameshopkins7507
2 жыл бұрын
@@ThisPaintingLife I listened to the entire podcast. It is spot on and filled with sage advice and ideas. I recommend it to everyone.
@josephkillick8659
2 жыл бұрын
Many thanks Louise. You have described me to a T. Very inspiring video
@ThisPaintingLife
2 жыл бұрын
So glad!
@janinesisk7594
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you....you hit it on the head!
@ThisPaintingLife
2 жыл бұрын
You are so welcome
@kimimarlowe5826
2 жыл бұрын
I love these q and a's too ! and im very much looking forward to the course x
@ThisPaintingLife
2 жыл бұрын
Glad you like them!
@Fidelabstractfineart
2 жыл бұрын
I have been painting for longer than I can acknowledge in public. For the majority of these years I struggled to compose and create a painting, each and everyone of them. Whenever it was not working, whenever I had to start again, from scratch, - I got the feeling that I had no talent, that I was a fraud because I really did not know what I was doing, or almost. I now call it the "spaghetti painting" - throw colors and shapes at the canvas and see what sticks. Throughout those many decades I was averse to Process. I saw it as a waste of time. Product was the important thing to accomplish. Come to think of it, knowing what I know now, I was against something I actually knew nothing about! After taking some amazing art courses (including your youtubes, your Tribe courses, etc.), I understood what Process was. And since then I have been more accepting of myself, my "failures", even my spaghetti days (now I call them Play days - big difference!). I have many bad painting days, I re-do paintings as a matter of course, I make good paintings worse and kick myself around the block. But all this is now par for the course. Another day at the office. Accepting the journey is key to going deeper, to humility, to a roller coaster that gives us, artists, an exciting, marvelous life.
@ThisPaintingLife
2 жыл бұрын
So good to hear Bela x
@aliciarodriguez9271
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you . I need it this.
@ThisPaintingLife
Жыл бұрын
You are so welcome
@manuelagalli2456
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
@ThisPaintingLife
2 жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
@LavishHim
2 жыл бұрын
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 🎨🎨🎨 go for it!
@SharonAgassiArt
2 жыл бұрын
Louise, thank you for this and all your great answers to all these questions! I was amazed to hear you say that you sell almost everything you make. Wow, what a dream that is for me, never having sold anything yet. I hope you will talk about the path to getting there, because I’m sure there was a time you never would’ve believed that would be true. It’s kind of hard to keep painting and painting and having my work pile up around the house. I have no intention of stopping, but I really need to sell some to make room! How did it start for you?
@ThisPaintingLife
2 жыл бұрын
Come take the free course and find out :) www.louisefletchercourses.com/wait-list-fyj-2022
@SharonAgassiArt
2 жыл бұрын
@@ThisPaintingLife I’ll definitely be there! 😻
@janethughes9589
2 жыл бұрын
I think people often use “perfectionism” as code for ”fearing the result won’t be good enough”, because seeking perfection sounds faintly noble, unlike fear of failure or exposure.
@kameliat7704
2 жыл бұрын
Dear Louise, I LOVE love love what you're saying and how you're saying it, you are much needed support for me 💗 Can I buy you coffee like...6 times a day? 😊
@ThisPaintingLife
2 жыл бұрын
Haha, thanks for the offer!
@lizmccowage8031
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you I’ll just have to let the fear go.
@ThisPaintingLife
2 жыл бұрын
come and join the course to learn how www.louisefletchercourses.com/wait-list-fyj-2022
@urbanchili
2 жыл бұрын
I had a creative job for 30 years, where I had to be creative and my experience is: When we make art, it is a journey to become "perfect" when, and if, you reach the point where you can do, what you find perfect, every time, then you are either done with your journey and art will be in your past or you start a new (creative) journey, new challenges.
@ThisPaintingLife
2 жыл бұрын
exactly!
@libbyshipman9607
2 жыл бұрын
I have a question about creating a large painting ( I have a 3 foot x 4 foot canvas. I read or heard recently that it's much more than enlarging from a smaller design. If it's not that, then what is it?
@juliebabb3365
2 жыл бұрын
"have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it" Salvador Dali
@sequoia4520
2 жыл бұрын
I'm registered for the free taster course starting this month. Can you kindly tell me when your paid course starts and how long it lasts? Just trying to firm up plans for the summer. Thank you much!!!
@ThisPaintingLife
2 жыл бұрын
It is a 10 week course that runs from June 5th to August 8th.
@sequoia4520
2 жыл бұрын
@@ThisPaintingLife Many thanks, Louise!
@daledanby6831
2 жыл бұрын
My problem is that when I start painting I can’t slow down and all things that I have learned go right out of my mind,until it becomes a big mess.can I paint abstract in slow motion? Thanks Dale from Kingston Ontario
@ThisPaintingLife
2 жыл бұрын
You can do it!
@63artemisia63
2 жыл бұрын
(Louise - please delete my comments if I’ve gotten carried away!) I’ve had some periodic success ignoring my mother’s voice, which is where my perfectionism comes from. She spent her whole life trying to buy perfection - the right clothes, furniture, tchotchkes, makeup. I may always hear it. But, for a good while now, I’ve been wanting to make looser, more energetic and abstract gel prints. So, looking at gel prints by artists whose work has lots of energy and noticing why I think that is has helped. (Louise gets lots of the credit for the “noticing” idea.) For instance, big, bold, handmade stencils and light bright colors. (I’ve been using commercial stencils, magazine images and midrange colors, much too carefully arranged. Not much of me happening when I work with elements created by other people.) Boom. With the new colors and stencils, Immediately, my prints have more energy! I still have to resist those midrange colors and precut stencils, even though I’ve put most of them away. And not every light bright color combo with the same stencil has the same energy. That’s where I have much more exploring to do. But it’s a step in the right direction, away from my familiar but unsatisfying way. Hope that may help someone who’s struggling to make her paintings “right”.
@ThisPaintingLife
2 жыл бұрын
Glad to hear this is working!
@marigoldwood8494
2 жыл бұрын
Who exactly decides what is perfect? A perfectly executed painting by a highly esteemed professional artist may not be perfect for me simply because it's not the sort of thing that I want to hang on my bedroom wall.
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