Does your art often get tighter and tighter until your paintings feel overworked?
Do you find it hard to stop yourself making realistic art, especially when you use reference images?
Do you want to loosen up your painting style so it's a bit {or a lot} more abstract?
You are not alone and you can change this!
This is one of the most common frustrations among both beginner and more experienced artists. You want to shake ingrained habits of making detailed, representational art and make paintings that feel more reflective of your emotions, experiences, and inner world, but it's not always as easy as it seems.
Many of us come from an educational system which prizes realism and accuracy over wild abandon, and it can feel hard to break out of that mindset that says 'good art = realistic art', even if logically you know it isn't necessarily true.
Not to mention that taking off all the parameters and safety nets you're so used to, and stepping up to a blank canvas with no prior plan or starting point can feel completely overwhelming.
But you know there's more - inside you, within the process, and in terms of what you could create - and you want to find out how to access it. Enter Loosen Up!
