I feel like I'm in trouble all the time when I'm creating art. It's unfathomable. It's elusive. It's baffling. Where do I start? Where is the middle? Where is the end? I used to run a network in an office downtown. Over the 20 years I worked in that position, I seemed to have encountered every kind of trouble there was, from not enough power, to used equipment being sold as new, to flooding, to hacking, to a tornado. Trouble comes with the territory. And so said Carol Light about art at a watercolor demo I attended in 2002.
As I re-read my art journal, I can take comfort in remembering that I don't need to know everything and that I need to take risks in order to learn. In art, I have nothing to lose (I can always paint it again) and everything to gain (miracles do happen).
"Take a chance with me." ABBA
Betsy! Thank goodness, you don't keep on doing the same thing over and over. Of course, if you did, you'd be getting the same old thing.
A few words from people who have been there:
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist." —Pablo Picasso
"If it's making you nervous, you're doing it right." —Childish Gambino
Putting yourself out on that limb and trying to keep from falling off is what artists do.