Hello there it's Antrice and welcome to another episode of the Savvy Painter

podcast. So before I introduce you to this week's guest, I want to give a big thank you to Trachell art supplies for sponsoring this podcast.

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Cammy Mendelick is my guest today.

In this episode, Cammy talks about her first tentative steps towards becoming an artist and her resistance to even

calling herself an artist. We talk about embracing the unknown regardless of our

insecurities and doubts.

Painting is a lifelong journey,

and we stubbornly, sometimes irrationally

stay on this path, even when we learn,

we'll never, ever find all the answers.

Cammy tells this fabulous story about finding her first mentor of Mary Pettis

and how important it was to her when she finally found a female painter that she admired to guide her.

Mary agreed to help Cammy after Cammy proved that she was a worthy student.

But Mary had just one condition that Cammy pass on what she would learn.

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