I am an artist.  I paint, I sculpt, I draw.  And I do it spontaneously, without planning it, without worrying about how it will turn out.

That’s the secret, you know.  If you just stop fretting whether what you’re doing, whether what you’re going to do, will make the grade, that’s when your artistic side is freed to really dig in and express.

Try it yourself.  Get worried about whether a line is going to be curved just right or straight enough, fret whether your perspective is off, and every line, every curve, every arc and trajectory, will skew itself, turning out just the way you were afraid it would.

See that?  You pre-programmed yourself to fail — to do it “wrong”…which in and of itself is a whole other conversation we won’t get into right now.  But, when you fear, you set what you didn’t want to happen in your mind, and then it happens through your worried hand.

Instead, draw, paint, sculpt with confidence, freely letting go and letting your creativity ride on the thrill and high that is its own best spirit.  Then what turns out, though maybe not quite what you envisioned, will be glorious. 

Really.

Just try it if you don’t believe me.

Oh, and, remember, always let art steep after its initial birth.  You can’t see well when the innate self-adulator or self-critic is on the loose.  Wait and see it on a “neutral day.”