Afraid to show your paintings? Listen to this.

Savvy Painter Podcast with Antrese Wood

Antrese Wood

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4.8 • 891 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Getting your work out there is scary for a lot of artists. Sometimes it’s because we’re afraid no one will like it, but more often it's because we are so worried about whether or not the paintings will sell.

That creates a ton of pressure.

This episode is for you if you want to show your work but secretly resist taking actions to get it out there.

I give you 3 ideas to make it easier:

Showing your work makes you a better painter: you get to see how people react to your work. Art is communication, part of communication is listening to the response.

Putting your art out there helps you find the people who will truly love and appreciate your unique voice. These are the collectors who will support you as an artist. Help them get to know you.

Sharing your work, even if it’s scary (especially if its scary) boosts your confidence. The more you do it, the easier it gets ( I promise!)

Start small, go slow until you build your confidence. Sales is just one of the byproducts you get when you purposefully practice sharing your work with other humans.

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0:00.0	Well, hello, welcome to another episode of the Savvy Painter podcast.
0:10.9	This week I wanted to talk with you about showing your work and in this episode I am going to share a few ideas about showing your work and hopefully give you some alternative ways of looking
0:28.6	at just the whole idea of sharing your work.
0:42.0	I know for a lot of artists the idea of putting your work out there and having people look at it with the intent of offering it up for sale it can be very very
0:47.2	intimidating can be scary there's a lot of baggage that goes along with that most often.
0:55.8	And so I thought it'd be a great conversation to have today.
1:00.5	So one of my philosophies that you have probably heard if you've been listening to the
1:07.0	podcast for a while. If not, welcome. This is one of my philosophies. That is that art always comes from a place of love.
1:16.9	And what I mean by that is it comes from a place of love
1:22.3	for the art, love for the craft of making art, everything that
1:28.8	has come before us, all of the amazing painters throughout the history of art, the pieces that we love to look at,
1:36.4	the pieces that we delight in looking at, those paintings that for you are the ones that just break your heart right open.
1:45.0	That's where our art comes from.
1:47.5	It comes from that love.
1:49.5	Love for the arts, love for the craft,
1:53.4	which of course all of those artists and all of those paintings
1:56.8	that you love to look at, it influences that
2:00.0	and that influence often inspires us to want to improve our skill set, to become a better painter,
2:07.6	to become better at color, to become better at line, to become better at composition at making these marks that just break other people's
2:18.2	hearts wide open.
2:20.0	So it is that love for the art that drives us forward in the creation.
2:26.3	And it also comes from a place, when I say it, your art comes from a place of love that also includes love for the artist so again
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