Welcome to the Sabby Painter Podcast, the podcast for artists who mean business.

Here's your host, Antrice Wood.

Hey, it's Antrice and welcome to the savvy painter podcast. We are now entering year two of bringing

interviews with top artists directly into your studio. I've been talking with many of you offline and I know how important it is to hear from other

artists.

Spending so much time in your studio can feel very solitary and it helps to have other artists to bounce ideas off of or sometimes just to get a reality check.

Based on your feedback, I have been developing an idea for sort of an artist mastermind group. If you are already on my mailing

list, you will get the details sometime in the next week or so. If you are not on the email list and are interested in joining this beta group, you can sign up at savvy painter.com. I'll do a very, very limited group to start.

So you might not hear about this again unless you raise your hand by getting on that list.

Okay, so this week I am happy to share with you a talk with the artist Sean Cheetham.

Sean is a portrait artist, originally from San Francisco.

He now splits his time between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Sean grew up surrounded by artists and encouraged to create. He studied

illustration at the Arts Center College of Design in Pasadena and quickly began

teaching and showing his art. Sean and I talk about his portraits of friends and

how painting became sort of a diary of his life. We also talk about entering art

contests and his experience with the BP Portrait Awards.

On the one hand, these contests can be great opportunities for exposure, but on the other

hand, they can get expensive quickly. We also talk about how tunnel vision

with your art career often leads to burnout. Sean has other creative outlets that

help him stay on track and we talk about why these creative outlets are

categorically not for sale. They allow him to get back to the place where he is

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