Procrastinating on a painting. Do many artists experience bad anxiety when a painting's going well and it's time to pick up the brush again? I never had stage fright, but mucking up something not awful puts me in a panic! 馃槣
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YES. Painting, writing, a house project... I totally resonate with this.
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It seems to be especially strong for me with painting. I didn't have stage fright or performance anxiety or probs writing (although I created plenty of terrible along the lesser good lol). Painting is not easy to apply UNDO to ;-)
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Oh good point. I guess it鈥檚 easier to make writing good if you鈥檝e got something to work from. But painting can quite literally get muddied with one wrong choice. 馃槵 Not helping!
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Replying to @JessViceUX
Exactly. It seems a subtle difference at first but the anxiety factor is far higher when it comes to screwing up something that had great potential (kinda like life 馃槀). Writing can be edited. Songs re-sung. Mistakes owned up to, work toward better. But muck up a painting? Panic!

Apr 30, 2018 路 6:25 PM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag @JessViceUX
I totally feel this. Even those adult coloring books stress me out because THERE IS NO COMMAND-Z!
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Exactly. We can Undo in the digital world. A talk falling flat a few times - happens. Writing? I had a cascade of wonderful editors in my career who enriched me. But committing paint to canvas, yikes! I do like the "adult" coloring books (sounds naughty but it's not, usually lol)
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