I'm in the early stages of learning to paint and am using 11x12 sheets of canvas. I can store them pretty easily but I don't know if the clutter is worth it. Have any of you regretted tossing work from your early days? I just finished painting #4. So they are truly practice pieces.
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Each week I mulch about 10 A2 or A3 newsprint / craft paper drawings and apply fixative to the 2 or 3 l want to keep and store in a display folder. The keepers are also photographed for continued work on an iPad with Procreate.
What is important is that the practice pieces are used to improve. The digitally stored images can be annotated with…
*** three dot points of what looks good
*** three dot points of what could be better
*** three dot points of what to try next time.
Denis
I get matboard cut-offs from a local framing shop, seal them and prime. Or Bristol board or heavy watercolor paper. I'm not a fan on modern synthetic gesso, so I just use oil-based primer. Since I don't sell my works I'm really not concerned about "archive quality" though I do use better-quality paints and brushes.
I paint to relax, work on technique and effect.