Just Start Painting!

It's about painting but even more, it's about you. This book invites you to pick up the brush, not to impress, but to express. It's for anyone who wants to rediscover their creative voice, reconnect with their inner world, and explore what it really means to make art without pressure or perfection. It's not a how-to. It's a why-to. Through gentle reflections, inspiring prompts, and real voices from fellow creatives, this book holds space for your doubts, your breakthroughs, and your quiet moments of joy at the canvas. At its heart, it's a reminder: You are creative. You are allowed. You are enough.

Because this book isn't just about paintingit's about coming home to yourself. It's for anyone who wants to reconnect with their creativity, let go of perfectionism, and rediscover the joy of simply making something with their hands. Whether you're starting from scratch or picking up the brush after years, this book offers more than inspirationit offers guidance, reflection, and emotional depth. You'll get practical tips, gentle prompts, and soul-nourishing insights that support your artistic process and help you build confidencestep by step, image by image. It's not about being good at art. It's about being honest, being curious, and letting your inner world speak through color and form. If you're looking for a creative companion that encourages, uplifts, and challenges you in the best waythis is it.

Autorentext
The artist Petra Schmiedecke lives and works as a freelance artist in Oldenburg, Northern Germany. Her central medium is painting - a space in which she intuitively interweaves color, form and line and repositions herself with each work. For her, the creative process begins in the moment: a conscious pause, a return to zero, where movement arises from stillness. Her works reflect inner and collective transformation processes - visual resonance spaces between structure and openness, in-between space and presence. For her, painting is not reproduction, but encounter. Not explanation, but a search for traces.