Getting Bored with Your Medium

It’s very easy to get bored with your medium. More than once have I stopped drawing because all I did was use the same medium for weeks on end. If this happens you can either quit using it for awhile and use something else, or my favorite solution – try a new technique.

For some that’s really hard to do because they are set in their ways, but even working in more bold colors can help change your mind on what you’re working with. Another idea is to work my abstractly. If you usually work in a very realistic sense try and do something completely different. Use giant strokes in a painting if you don’t typically. Try something called “pointillism” which is making a picture out of a lot of small dots. If you work with clay add some different textures to your piece. There are multiple ways that you can change the medium that you’re working with. It can even give you new ideas for new pieces.

If you get bored with your medium it can become annoying to work with and make you want to do something else entirely. Try playing around with it and having fun with it. You can gain entire new ideas for projects and expand your artwork as a whole.