I MADE A MESS

So last week I challenged myself to make a mess this week. I wanted to pull out paint and just splash it on an empty canvas. 

I wanted....

 

But it never happened. I looked at the paint tubes several times. I sketched a few ideas but it all seemed so organized and neat.

I did the sketch of the girl on the swing. It took everything I had in me to keep myself from trying for perfection. I colored outside the lines and - okay - this is technical - I merged my layers before I could change my mind with any of it. 

And than a week passed by and I didn't do any more about it. It wasn't until today as I knew I had a blog post to write that I opened up the file again and started pulling in files from the latest M3 collection from The Lilypad. 

Even when I try to just play I make rules for my creativity. So I decided that once a layer was pulled onto my canvas it had to stay there. No moving, no tweaking - just intuitive creating. So the whole process was a pretty fast one.

I did this earlier in the week but not exactly with the same game plan as the above. I spend hours on the drawing and the placement of the elements took just as  long. Isn't it funny how something that looks a lot more simple took so much longer than the more complicated - messy - one?

So I guess that I didn't manage my challenge from last week - which means I'll give it another try this next week - or should I just give up? Maybe just accept my limitations and move on?

As usual I'll be linking up to Paint Party Friday, Art Journal Every Day and Kim Dellow's Show your face. Thank you for stopping by ♥