I have been very busy this week! After years of avoiding drawing and painting faces as I struggle to get them realistic and lifelike I have thrown caution to the wind and started drawing and painting whimsical folk art style faces… and love them! I have a new addiction I think and have taken the pressure off wanting the realism result. I am not and never will be an artist that paints realistic images. I just like to paint and love to have lots of colours in my images. It has taken me a long time to get away from the ‘you are not good enough’ style of art that was taught at school. I am not brilliant with fine art techniques and only achieved a grade C at GCSE art as I enjoyed art too much to take it or myself too seriously. Art was my ‘chill out’ subject, I took art as a was of de-stressing from my academic subjects at school and was forever told I did not plan enough, or I was not technically brilliant enough. I have decided to let that pressure go and just paint and draw what I enjoy and make myself happy… And do you know what? I am getting much better results in what I create since I have taken that pressure off! Here are some of the things I have created this week: