#5. Ugly art is more important

After months of avoiding it, I finally picked up my paint brush. What came from it was ugly! The process of making it made me very happy though, and I was reminded that making ugly art is more important than making perfect art.

While I don't really believe that art is ever perfect, that's what makes it visually captivating. However, the more ugly art one makes, the closer one can get to better art—something I can be happy I made, something I would give no note.

Below you can see my little sketches to block in my fruit, some lean underpainting that helped me mix colours I needed and gave my previous fruit some time to dry. Then I gave my tomato and orange a red hot go before I got inside my head and had to call it for the night.

I am using gouache, just primary colours, as I'm trying to push my colour theory through practice. I had a lot of fun just getting stuck into this, and I got a little bit of my confidence back in the process. So even though it is ugly (and not finished, I will keep going tonight), ugly art is better than a blank page.