Do you struggle to finish your art?

Опубликовано: 09 Июнь 2024
на канале: Artist Strong

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Embrace Your Unfinished Art: The Creative Power of Multiple Projects

I am curious: do you complete one project at a time or have multiple works in progress at the same time?

When I polled community members the response was unanimous: you all have multiple projects you work on. That wasn’t the problem. What appears to be a problem is how you perceive those multiple works as a sign of success… or failure.

Some of you said things like:

“Yes!! : too many interests, [sad face] too much going on and not enough time.”

“I have ONE big painting that I work on almost every day… I am exhausted but I won’t give up.”

“I started 2 paintings about 6 years ago and still haven’t finished them. I need to be in the right mood to spend 4 hours on it.”

“My perfectionist personality struggles with the “unfinished” work but I know that I’m unlikely to make the necessary changes, so the easy-going personality lives with it and my creative personality just produces something else to replace it.”

In fact, many people shared they struggle to finish their art.

It’s as if having multiple works in progress is not a sign of a successful, thriving artist but instead represents a creative person who can’t manage their time, is lazy, or easily distracted/bored. But what if that’s not the case? What if multiple works in progress and, in fact, some unfinished artwork, are instead a normal, regular part of the creative process?

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