If you are making art for yourself, you are playing, not working.
I like to really lean into this and do something completely unstructured either as a warm up or as a break while Iām working on a project. I like to do what I call āshit canvasesā where I use up old supplies and garbage and what not. I layer things onto the canvas, building up some parts as I go, covering parts I donāt care about as much, maybe even ripping things off of it. I also so something on a smaller scale in my journal. Maybe Iāll start with a scribbled rant, or writing a few phrases down, and then I start to cover it with more words, or stickers, or I paint a little thing, or a sticky note, then more paint, then take the sticky note off. I have no end goal in mind, Iām just playing and seeing how things work together.
Make yourself let loose
