Up: [[Expressive Art Ideas - A Long List]] Course: Touchstones with Tara Leaver on Happy Artist site Created: 2025-01-03 Set a timer and paint for 2-3 minutes. Then start the timer again but this time don’t paint, just look at your painting for 2-3 minutes. When those minutes are up, start the timer again and paint. Keep going with this back and forth until you feel done or it’s time for something else. Allow ideas to come to you during the 2 minute pauses. The only rule is that you have to do the idea(s) that come, even if you don’t think they will work or you don’t like them. All you never need to do is take the next step, which is the next idea you have. [[Tara Leaver]], the artist who developed this idea, says it is great for all sorts of artist problems including - when you’re feeling stagnant and uninspired about what to paint - when you’re stuck on a current painting - when you’re getting hung up on perfection, or being crap at art - when you don’t have much time but would like to just move some paint around