Here are some quick tips that you can use right now to improve your art.  Whatever medium you use, these tips can help:

• Take a photo of your painting
  • You can take a photo at any stage thoughout your painting and look at it in isolation from the work itself.  This gives you a different perspective and helps you see where you can improve or where you’ve gone wrong.
• Turn your painting upside down.
  • This can highlight errors in the shapes you’ve created, again giving you a different and unfamiliar perspective to view your art.  Sometime we need fresh eyes to see our art and this is a great way to do that quickly.
• Fresh Eyes
  • Speaking of fresh eyes.  A good nights sleep will give you fresh eyes and highlight things you couldn’t see the day before!
• Use A Mirror
  • Look at your art from a mirror with your art work behind you.  Again this gives you a different perspective.  You can also reflect the photo of your work to get the same effect.
• Monochrome
  • turn your photo to black and white and also your art work.  This will help you focus on contrast and you’ll end up with a better painting.

Do you have any other tips?  comment below

This past week we’ve been looking at improving art and in my Facebook group Pastel for Beginners and Beyond we shared our art – art that we thought was the worst we’ve ever done!

SOOOOOOOOOO………

So, what did I learn from this piece?

• Complimentary colours don’t always work
• Edges, edges, edges. My edges are not soft
• Grumpy cats aren’t always fun to pastel 
• Paws need lots of shadow and form
• Background needs more detail
• the chest fur is so, so flat
• Whiskers, definitely need improving!

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