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Readers Respond: Where Do You Get Your Best Painting Ideas From?

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Painting Ideas

I keep an informal journal of ideas that hit me, so I always have a few things written down.Right now I'm interested in stained glass themed paintings.
—Guest SRS Guest

ideas for painting

I have many 'themes' in my painting, - so run with one theme, and then the next, and sometimes completely OFF theme. From weeds in botanical form; to sunsets; to herding dogs... then a sunset thrown in from time to time. WAY too much to try to do in a lifetime! No need to search for ideas... they are simple and all around us!
—Guest JPR

Painting Ideas

I believe the sky and its changing colours over the entire days can give you ideas to paint with different colour schemes, just trace and abstract.
—Guest Ritu

Painting Ideas

When one is itching to paint it seems ideas elude us. I think the best ideas come when we least expect them - out of the blue when something says, "paint me". Don't ignore it however bizarre,just paint it you might be surprised by the results.
—Guest papaya/shrl

Emotions

Some days when I don't know what to paint, I paint how I feel. I don't let stereotypes for colors and lines block me in, I use what I think is how I feel.
—Guest Faith

Painting ideas

I am so bursting with ideas I often feel overwhelmed knowing there are not enough years to get them down onto canvas. One set of ideas come from the river and subtropical vegetation around me, another from the fact that I drink a lot of tea, another from Monet and Van Gogh - I look at some of their paintings and try to do the same but better. Now, does anyone have advice for someone with lots of ideas who doesn't produce much work?
—Guest Wendy B

One idea painting

Like Monet I use one idea to lead to another to another to another and so on. Don't need oodles of ideas just a few good ones.
—Guest Josh

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