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8paint Inspiration Friday Blog Banner Is the pressure to be original keeping you from being creative

Inspiration Fridays! Is the pressure to be original keeping you from being creative?

It's already been done before. And probably by someone with more skill and better connections...
8paint Inspiration Friday can you leave it alone

Inspiration Fridays! Can you leave it alone?

Knowing when a painting is finished and then actually choosing to stop is a very underrated skill...
Inspiration Friday is the tangent actually the main event

Inspiration Fridays! Is the tangent actually the main event?

You know that feeling. You’re totally lit up about something, maybe even slightly unhinged...
8paint Inspiration Friday Make It Yours (Even When It's Theirs)

Inspiration Fridays! Make It Yours (Even When It’s Theirs)

Commissions, in an ideal world, can be a magic act of collaboration...
8Paint Inspiration Friday Are you limited by invisible critics

Inspiration Fridays! Are you limited by invisible critics?

We all want our work to connect, to be understood...
Inspiration Friday Is your painting in the ugly stage

Inspiration Fridays! Is your painting in the “ugly” stage?

There comes a time in every piece where it feels like a disaster...
8paint Inspiration Friday Are you in just one more thing purgatory?

Inspiration Fridays! Are you in “just one more thing” purgatory?

Creativity isn't linear. Learning isn’t linear. Most of the lines I draw...
8paint Inspiration Friday - Are your eyes playing tricks on you?

Inspiration Fridays! Are your eyes playing tricks on you?

Drawing from a photo? Turn it upside down and see...
8paint Inspiration Friday Let's Start Before We Feel Ready

Inspiration Fridays! Let’s start before we feel ready.

We don't start with talent and it doesn't show up one day with all of the answers.
8paint Inspiration Friday Trust the Wind But Bring an Oar

Inspiration Fridays! Trust the Wind, But Bring an Oar

What if the unknown wasn’t something to fear but something to follow?
8paint Inspiration Friday - What's the first step toward something beautiful?

Inspiration Fridays! What’s the first step toward something beautiful?

Beginnings are fragile things. They ask us to wade into uncertainty...
Inspiration Friday - What happens when you swap doomscrolling for painting?

Inspiration Fridays! What happens when you swap doomscrolling for painting?

When we work with our hands, painting, drawing, sculpting... making cookies, we engage with the world differently.