Experimentation

How do you learn to make your art? You experiment. You try something and if it works, you progress. If it doesn’t, you take note of it and keep going. It’s like a maze. If it works, it’s a green light to keep on with that technique, and if it doesn’t, it’s a red light to stop and try something else.

Often we have to emulate others’ styles - watching videos, taking classes, and playing with new techniques until we find our own creative voice. You will end up discovering - often through accident - a technique or specific use of a medium that will render a result that really hits you.

Through trial and error – much trial and error – you will begin to collect a body of specific techniques which you can use in unison, to create the overall image that is uniquely YOURS.

While materials themselves have great potential, on their own, they are powerless. They do not listen to your fantasies and respond, they do not sense the visions in your head and move on their own accord. They do only what the hands make them do. That’s where practice comes in.