Study

[razielim]

Good morning. :)

It's the second day of Plein Airpril and I'm already phoning it in because it's cold outside and I spent entirely too much of my painting stamina on this bottle and still need to doodle on my main project a little. I'm not particularly invested in the whole "plein air" thing to begin with, but I was starting to already get hype about trying to stick to the rules 100% and maybe win a prize. And also I have a tripod mounted mini-easel coming in next week, so I was like "HELL YEAH, I'll get a bunch of use out of it immediately and use gouache and stuff!" but like... whatever. I'm not bothered. And I don't like the official theme this year either. Honestly, i just hate having official themes/prompts, period. And I hate having to follow and tag all the sponsors, blegh.

My initial reason for joining in was because the artist I'm making a lot of mastercopies from recently was saying that his use of color improved specifically from plein air, and I'm definitely looking to push towards brighter, bolder color from my usual moody tones, so I was thinking to use April to go in that direction. But like?? Idk. I'm not hype. I'm just. not. hype. I'll do plein air when I'm hype.

I think it was Nassim Taleb who wrote that if you have to list reasons either for or against doing something... you're essentially against doing it. If you want to do something, you only have either ONE or ZERO reasons.