Little big moments
It’s not about getting it wrong or making mistakes, it’s about learning.
This concept has been repeated to me many times and in the end I understood it.
Yesterday I was just painting a thangka, working on the nuances.
What can I say…the way the work was coming out just didn’t convince me and I didn’t like it.
There are moments in which that “I don’t like it” is temporary, linked for example to my condition of the present moment. In this case I have learned to take time and space from the work and it often happens that with a renewed look at the painting I think “it’s okay”.
On the other hand, there are situations in which it’s not just “I don’t like it”, there’s something more, it just doesn’t work.
It doesn’t work in the harmony of the work!
At that point, there are two ways to go: remain unsatisfied with something that screams inside or intervene in the painting in favor of a search for beauty and harmony, modifying what you can and yet risking failure or worsening the situation.
In my case, by now I have understood that for me the path is almost obligatory…. and it is the second one.
Almost always the courage is repaid, if only by the internal feeling of having done the best possible.
And you learn a lot from these moments, both in attitude and technique!
