In the pursuit of perfection we put an enormous amount of pressure on ourselves. Artists often work through frustrations with their work. Realizing what may seem like a mistake in a drawing, painting or collage can actually be a wonderful surprise that makes a piece of art truly wonderful.
For beginning art students or those who have been too afraid to start making art because they think they "can barely draw stick figures," there is good news. The imperfections in your creative expressions aren't really imperfections. If you step back, let go of your expectations, and look at your piece with new eyes you may actually see the unexpected "imperfection" actually takes the piece in a fun direction.
We need to have more fun.
No more tears in drawing class when the elephant doesn't look like a photograph. Individual interpretation or individual style comes from learning to embrace the little bits of our creative self expression that comes from ourselves.
Dry those tears art students and give yourselves permission to make something imperfect, something unexpected and something uniquely you. That's what art can do for all of us--let us make something that is not born of our crazy need to be perfect.
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