Today’s Happy Artist Tip:

✨Try making experiments a cornerstone of your practice.✨

Why? Because experiments are:

👍 forgiving
👍 fun
👍 a fantastic way to find out what’s ‘yours’ as an artist

If you have an idea, and have or can create the means to try it – try it!

Experimenting doesn’t have to mean inconsistency.

You can try all sorts of things within parameters you choose {and can un-choose and move around!}.

And if consistency is not a thing you’re concerned about, well then the world is your oyster!

I had an idea to play with contrast by incorporating both gloss and matte in a single painting.

So I tried it!

I learned a lot about how many coats of gloss varnish are necessary to achieve satisfactory glossiness 😅, and exactly the degree to which gloss shows up every detail and texture, whether you like it or not. 😆

That is the magic of artistic experimentation – whatever the outcome, you always learn something.

And on this occasion, I even loved the result! {Although it’s quite hard to photograph.😄 }

I’ve also made plenty of experiments that were, to put it kindly, not quite what I’d had in mind!

But every single one teaches us something, whether it’s a huge pivot point in how we make our art, or simply, ‘ok, not that’. 😊

Do you make use of experiments in your art practice? What could you experiment with today?