Reply To: Online painting classes – anyone?

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Absolutely agree. I don’t practice enough. As it is, I’m painting a diorama now – I’ve no idea how to even begin, other than slap some paint on and at some point in the future, stop doing it and hope it looks ok! There’s no real plan there. I suspect that if I’d been practicing, I’d have a bit more confidence to start without fear of “messing up”. But practicing without knowing what you’re doing isn’t much use either. If I was going to learn to play the violin, I’d at least get some lessons in before I subjected my neighbours to endless practice – otherwise nobody gets anything from it!

But I agree – and that’s what spurred me into looking to join a class – that progression would be a big motivator for me. And being in a group. On my own, it doesn’t matter if I don’t paint this week. But as part of a larger group, all progressing together, I’d feel I owed it to someone else, if not myself, to keep up and keep painting.