I painted 1 million skies…you should too. #watercolor #arttips

I painted what felt like 1 million skies before I stopped hating them. 🌤️

Okay maybe not literally a million but close enough. For the longest time I was obsessed with beautiful skies. Those soft sunsets, dramatic storm clouds, peaceful morning gradients…but the second I tried painting them total frustration. Muddy colors flat clouds zero depth. I would stare at my attempts and think why cant I capture this?

Then I just kept going. Hundreds of skies. Thousands of brushstrokes. Lots of meh results. Somewhere along the way something clicked. Now painting skies is my comfort art. The thing I do to relax reset and feel proud of my progress.
If you are sitting there right now with a blank page or canvas scared you will mess it up or that you are not good enough yet I see you.

Two quick confidence boosts for you…
1. Start messy on purpose today. Give yourself permission to paint 10 terrible skies in a row. No pressure for them to be good the only goal is to log the reps. Every single one teaches your hands and eyes something. The confidence shows up on the other side of volume.
2. Trust that the payoff is coming even when you cannot see it. I did not feel good at skies until long after I expected to. But all those earlier attempts were secretly building the foundation.

If you love skies but they have been stressing you out try them again. Your future comfortable, confident artist self is waiting on the other side of the practice.
Save this post for later “I’m ok with not being ok at something”

#arttips #WatercolorSky #ArtJourney #BeginnerToConfident #CreativeProcess

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