Can painting daily really help you improve your art?

Yes, painting daily will put your art into overdrive!

There is a current craze among the art community to complete a small painting every day. Painting regularly will improve your skills and creativity.

Actually, this is not a new concept. Artists over the centuries painted nearly every day. Their dedication is how they created so many artworks.

Vincent van Gogh completed a painting in about week, over 2,000 paintings. Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa over several years while working on other artwork.

The time they spent painting is what made them accomplished artists.

Painting daily is the fastest way to improve your art skills.

Daily painting speeds-up our art journey.

who wants to learn to paint?

Artists everywhere (including myself) want to learn more about painting. There is always more to learn!

As long as we keep painting, we are learning.

People often ask, "How long does it take to learn to paint - to become an artist?"

Well, I did my first painting in high school art class, back in the 1960s. Painting has been my intermittent hobby ever since. So how many years has that been?

Painting is such a joy! I find the more we paint, the more we learn and the better we get.

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how do we learn to paint?

Daily Painting is a great way to improve our painting skills.

Celebrate our paintings

Learning to paint takes practice, lots of practice.

Professionals work at their trade often, many times daily. Repetition is what makes them excellent at what they do.

The hardest step is getting started. Once we get started, it seems like time just flies by because we are so engrossed in the process of painting.

Striving for perfection can be a stumbling block. That has been a problem for me. So, I have learned to tell myself that we can't expect to paint a masterpiece every time.

Trying to be perfect takes the joy out of painting.

Instead, relax and enjoy each step of learning, even the small steps. Celebrate our victories.

painting daily

We don't have to paint every day, just more often. Nix the excuses.

Rose practice

Not painting: Everyone has different time restraints.

Getting started was my stumbling block. I would put off painting, waiting for a large block of time.

How often does that happen?!? Rarely, so my painting sessions were intermittent. Sigh!

The answer: We don't have to have a large block of time to paint. Even an hour can be a great painting time.

Perfection: I wanted every painting to turn out perfect. A problem would cause me to stop painting.

The answer: Just paint - It doesn't have to be perfect. Instead of painting for perfection - call it practice.

what do we need for daily painting?

First, a place to paint.

The ideal place is where we can have our painting supplies ready to go each day. If we can leave them out and ready to use, it makes more time for painting.

Some people put their painting stuff on a roll-away cart that is tucked out of sight when not in use. Get more tips on setting up your art space.

Clean the brushes after painting, so they're ready for the next day. Time spent on cleaning before we can paint, tends to dampen our painting enthusiasm.

Second, a supply of paint.

Nothing can be more frustrating than running out of paint in the middle of a painting.

Art supplies are so easy to order over the internet nowadays. We can even have them shipped directly to our house. Oil painting supplies or Watercolor supplies

Paint what we see around us.

Third, what size will we paint?

Decide what size we want to paint.

Many of the daily painters do small pieces they can complete faster, like 3x3 or 4x4 inches. They don't have to square, 3x6, 5x7 and 6x8 are also popular.

We may want to paint larger, 11x14, 16x20 or 18x24. When we paint daily on a larger painting, it will be finished before we know it.

Fourth, have a subject.

It's wonderful when we can go out and paint on location. But most of us paint at home.

So, we need a supply of things to paint; flowers, fruit, still life objects, photographs, our dog, children or whatever subjects are available.

Fifth, set a routine.

Set a time for painting each day and hold to the commitment.

Decide how long to paint. It could be only be 20 or 30 minutes or an hour or whatever our schedule allows.

It's not how long we paint, it's the commitment and dedication for painting that counts.

Painting can be profitable. We can sell daily paintings or put them for sale on eBay.

painting daily takes child-like faith

An oil daily painting by artist Carol May

This was a two-day painting.

Aspiring artists practice painting on their way to becoming a master artist.

Painting every day is not my habit, but I'm working on making it a regular habit.

You can do it, too!

This Monarch Butterfly painting is on an 8x8 panel.

A 6x6 or 8x8 size makes it easy to complete a painting in a day or two.

For more information the book 'ad' Daily Painting by Carol Marine is an excellent read that encouraged me. She gives plenty of examples with lots of helpful tips.

keep painting and enjoy your art journey!

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