From the Robert Genn newsletter:

“Artists tend to get used to doing things in a certain order. (OK, yes that’s usually me) Reverse, or at least vary, your usual order. The starting order, particularly, can often be quite arbitrary…

Many of us have a tendency to “conceive and execute.” (OK, yes again, that’s usually me)The “foolery way” is to make it up as you go along. Leave your options open….

If your work depresses you, and depresses you more as you go, you need to get happy. Count your blessings. Count your winnings. Take a few minutes to fly the flag of optimism. I don’t know about you, but I often feel I’m getting drunk on a painting. It’s better to be a happy drunk than a mean one. ”

I know that be-sotted feeling while the work is under way – wanting to work on it always, to look at it in passing and again. Towards the end of it, I begin to worry that something will happen and I won’t be able to finish it. I don’t worry worry about it, but the thought is there. Always has been so.

Sandy D has her own take on this same newsletter so you can wander over and read about using the WHATIFs to help your process along.

Thanks again Robert Genn for all the brain fodder. You know us all too well.