You're listening to the Savvy Painter Podcast episode number 345.

Hello, hello, welcome to another episode of the Savvy Painter podcast.

I am your host, Antrice Wood, and if you've been listening for a while, welcome back.

And if you're new here, I am so glad you found me.

Savvy Painter is the podcast for artists who want practical tactical tips to create a meaningful art practice that is both fulfilling and supports you.

So believe it or not, I still have boxes that I have not unpacked since moving to this new place.

I think going on six months ago now.

So I'm just wondering, how many unfinished paintings do you have lying around?

And I wanted to share with you how I think about having all these unfinished paintings because

the big question I have for many artists that I work with is what of those unfinished pieces

are actually the key to unlocking your next big creative breakthrough.

So a lot of artists see unfinished paintings as either something that's on their

to-do list, like there's kind of this itch that happens when they see them. Some artists look at

unfinished paintings and they feel like these are all proof or evidence that there is something wrong with themselves

as artists or there's something wrong with their practice.

And so I thought we would take this episode and talk about it.

As I was going through these boxes of artwork and thinking about unfinished work, I realized that I tend to sort of categorize them into basically three types, right?

So there's the pieces that I have started, but I haven't really developed.

There are pieces that are sort of halfway done.

And then there's pieces that are mostly done,

like maybe they're 80, 90 percent done. And I just didn't take them to the whole finish.

And I know a lot of you have this too. And sometimes it's just kind of easy. You just look at a

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