Do you ever say “it’ll be ok” when deep inside you know it won’t? It’s a big problem for me sometimes, and of course whatever it might be rarely works out and boom, a chance to beat myself up. 🫤
Today I was prepping some cards for my website and getting a large piece of paper taped off ready. I knew it was the wrong paper “it’ll be ok” but I taped it up and added the 1st layer of gesso. The paper buckled. “It’ll be ok” so I added a 2nd layer. It buckled again. “It’ll be ok”. So I added a layer of acrylic paint. “It’ll be ok”… Suddenly all those “it’ll be ok” phrases filtered into my conscious brain and I was able to break the cycle. “No it won’t!”. I ripped up the paper and started again with the heavyweight watercolour paper I should have used in the first place. 😂.
Doesn’t seem like much but interrupting that pattern is huge for me.
So yay! 😀
So lovely to spend all day in the studio instead of an hour or two at 7am only now the weather has cooled a bit!
Ailsa Brims Art 