Droppin Thangs

[Fei Ou]

Going through your in progress pics is an adventure, haha. Do you have a plan for these pieces usually? Or do you just build as you go and continue adding to the awesome?

So far what I've been doing is trying to constantly paint one painting at a time and pushing myself further with each new painting. Reason why I've only focused on one painting is because I found it more consistent than working on multiple pieces at once. I feel I'm not at a level which I can pump out multiple good paintings at once and instead, I only have the stamina and attention span to work on one at a time at the moment.

When I attempted to do multiple paintings I end up with multiple crappy paintings. My brain is just burnt out trying to plan out all these paintings at once and I eventually tire myself out to the point where I would stop caring about those paintings. So now I'm just focusing really hard on one at a time and trying to go at it with a steady pace instead of blitzing out blurs on my canvases.

I constantly have this intense urge to start work on a new piece, but I promised myself that I cannot start on another painting unless my current piece comes to a finish. This current regiment of finishing one piece before starting another has been working out pretty well. It works for me because that urge to start work on another piece is what drives me to finish whatever painting that I start and when I finish, I immediately start painting a new piece with a ton of excitement.

Time is pretty sparse at the moment because of summer classes and when my lady is over, of course I'm gonna halt work and give her all of my attention. Balancing assignments and cuddle time really builds up my itch to paint and its what drives to be more active over these couple of weeks.

Sorry to blab on like that! Hopefully this answers your question!