# Anything bigger than A5 gives me the yips!

**URL:** <https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/anything-bigger-than-a5-gives-me-the-yips/880>\
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**Created:** [June 9, 2020, 7:32pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/anything-bigger-than-a5-gives-me-the-yips/880 "2020-06-09T19:32:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rambolini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9a140/32.png) [@Rambolini](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Rambolini)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 7:32pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/anything-bigger-than-a5-gives-me-the-yips/880/1 "2020-06-09T19:32:42Z")

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When I joined TVI, i bought byself a number of A5 sketch pads.

Now I find my brain scrambles when I look at or consider using a surface bigger than that.

I’ll get over it, I’m sure - but was wondering if anyone had any other silly/funny/traumatic tales of art?

Does your white Polychromos bring out the sweats, or the thought of unboxing those pastels give you the shakes?

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**Author:** ![tgp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.thevirtualinstructor.com/tgp/32/701_2.png) [@tgp](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/tgp)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 8:27pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/anything-bigger-than-a5-gives-me-the-yips/880/2 "2020-06-09T20:27:14Z")

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Ramb,  
I’m hoping you get an answer…

I’m a n00b who feels rather similarly about big pictures. somehow- the size is daunting…

but why is that exactly? idk- but I can vouch for the feeling.

also-this makes me want to try it. (we’re supposed to do stuff that seems difficult,right?)

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**Author:** ![Rambolini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9a140/32.png) [@Rambolini](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Rambolini)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 9:08pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/anything-bigger-than-a5-gives-me-the-yips/880/3 "2020-06-09T21:08:14Z")

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Yes, doing difficult is the way forward!

I keep telling myself that… but… 🙂 😃

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**Author:** ![Biddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@Biddy](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Biddy)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 6:00pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/anything-bigger-than-a5-gives-me-the-yips/880/4 "2020-06-14T18:00:44Z")

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There is a way of getting over this fear of doing larger pictures. Scenery, for instance, think of it as something you can see on a stage. Break it down into Background, Middle ground, and Foreground. This way your mind set could be that you are dealing with 3 subjects so you only worry about one at a time. I am sure it must be the same for portraits, vases of flowers, anything really.

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**Author:** ![lilnora](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.thevirtualinstructor.com/lilnora/32/1050_2.png) [@lilnora](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/lilnora)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 2:39pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/anything-bigger-than-a5-gives-me-the-yips/880/5 "2020-11-23T14:39:35Z")

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I would have issues with big pastels, My silly/funny/traumatic is my family says “You have more paint on yourself than on the canvas” I wish I could figure out how to change that bad habit, laughing: 😆 😆 😆 😆