The Real Reason You Give Up Before You've Even Started

I think about this a lot actually. The amount of people who decide they want to try painting, make a genuine attempt at getting started, and then quietly give up before they've ever really begun.

And if you ask them why, they'll say something like 'oh I just wasn't very good at it' or 'it wasn't really for me' but when you dig a bit deeper, it's almost never actually about that.

What it usually comes down to is that getting started was just too hard. Not the painting itself, the bit before. The buying supplies, the figuring out colours, the not knowing if you've got the right things, the sitting down on day one and immediately feeling uncertain before the paint has even had a chance to dry.

That's a lot of friction for something that's supposed to be a fun hobby. And friction kills enthusiasm really effectively. You start to put it off because it feels like a lot. So you put it off again. And then it's been three months and the paints are in a drawer and you've sort of decided it wasn't your thing.

But what if it was your thing. The setup just let you down.

The colour decision is the bit that trips most people up. There are too many options, you don't know which colours will go nicely together, mixing your own shades is difficult to successfully repeat, you don't have the experience to make good instinctive choices yet. So you either spend ages researching and still feel unsure, or you grab something random and hope for the best.

Neither of those is a great start to a hobby.

The fix? Just having someone do that bit for you. A set where the colours were chosen to work together. So you open it, everything is ready, and you just get to paint.

That's what Plinky Paints is for. The colours are sorted, you just have to show up.

Find your perfect palette here.