Hello, hello. Welcome to another episode of the Savvy Painter podcast. I'm your host,

and Trees Wood. If you're new here, welcome. I am so glad that you found me. And if you've been

listening for a while, welcome back. Savvy Painter is the podcast for artists who want practical

tactical tips to create a meaningful art practice that is fulfilling and supports you.

So this is part of a new series of podcasts where I brought together a roundtable of artists

from Growth Studio. What I did was I picked several topics I thought you might be interested in

hearing about, and I asked Growth Studio members to come on the podcast for a deep dive discussion.

Each episode is a standalone, so don't worry if you're coming in now. You do not need to listen

to them in order. Today, I'm talking with Sabrina Sittaro, Alyssa Marquez,

and Jess Frederick. In this episode, we're talking about what I call the experimental phase.

If you're not sure exactly what I mean by that, don't worry, I've got you. So I find it helpful to

organize the phases or stages that we go through as artists. So real quick, we have the exploratory phase, which is what we're going to talk about in this episode. But it's a period of exploration, discovery, and play. And from there, we go into the production phase where we focus on an idea and create a body of work.

So oftentimes, the production phase comes directly from the exploratory phase.

Maybe you're playing around with a lot of work.

And then you notice that you're super curious about this one piece and you kind of find this thread and you take that thread and create a body of work

from it or a series of paintings from it. In that stage, I would say that you're in the production

phase where you're focused on a specific body of work. And then next, we show the work. So that can be

studio visits, art fairs, expositions, galleries, or showing your work online.

In its simplest form, it's letting other people see the work somehow.

From there, we go into selling it.

Whether we are actively selling the work ourselves or we are working with someone else like

a gallery or a dealer to sell the work.

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