Mistakes often lead to discoveries. Well, you couldn’t make this one up! Today I’m taking that colour-wash landscape idea a little further, exploring what else we can do with it — and somewhere along the way I managed to work on the whole thing upside down! Not deliberately. I genuinely got it wrong. But rather than abandon ship, I kept going, worked with what was in front of me, and actually discovered something along the way. And isn’t that so often the case with art? We get terribly hung up on doing things the “right” way, when sometimes the wrong turn is the very thing that shows us a new route.

You’ll also see today why I keep saying that I’m not finished with this colour-wash technique yet. Yes, I’m showing you more tricks and ideas here — but every time I play with it, another “What if…?” pops into my head. So I’ve decided we really are going to take this much further in the live online course I mentioned the other day. Think of these little Arty Challenge sessions as a taste of what’s possible. When we get together for the longer session, we’ll have the time to slow it down, explore the variables, push the ideas further and see what else we can discover together.

And perhaps that’s the lesson for today: don’t be too quick to throw something away because it hasn’t gone according to plan. Turn it round. Look at it differently. Keep going. You never know — your “mistake” might just be the beginning of your best idea yet. Mine certainly gave me a laugh today!

Day 30 – Mistakes Often Lead To Discoveries

Daily Affirmation Cards – ARTY – Create Your Own Edition 32032

Clarity Blending Mat A4 30214

Distress Ink Pad – Bundled Sage 50074

Distress Ink Pad – Dusty Concord 50078

Distress Ink Pad – Shaded Lilac 50102

03 Large Watercolour Flat Brush 32044

Micron Pen Set of 7 30778

White – Uni Posca Marker Pen – PC-1MR – Ultra Fine 31719

Faber-Castell Polychromos – Essentials – Set of 12 Artists’ Pencils 31031

And don’t forget the Click HERE to go to Day 30 ingredients, and have a browse through the SALE PAGE HERE too. A little heads-up: those Micron Pens and the Posca Pen will definitely be making an appearance in the Online Colour Washes course! So if you’re thinking you might like to join me, now would be a very good time to get yourself kitted out while they’re in the sale. 🥰 🥰 🥰

Love and Clarity

Barb x x x