Hello, my friends. Welcome to another episode of the Savvy Painter podcast. I am your host,

and Trice Wood. If you've been listening for a while, welcome back. And if you are new here,

welcome. I'm so glad you found me. Savvy Painter is the podcast for artists who want practical

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

With this episode, we are continuing a series of round-tabled conversations with artists from Growth Studio.

Each episode is a standalone.

So don't worry if you're just coming in now,

you do not need to have listened to them in order.

You can just keep on, keep it on.

So in this episode, you are going to hear from Mary Colert,

Andrew Ray, and Alyssa Marquez.

We're going to explore ideas around

creative confidence, how we shape it, how it impacts what we create, whether we show our work,

and whether we do or don't sell our work. We also talk about how peer support and

constructive criticism helps build our creative confidence,

as well as some of the differences between humility, confidence, and arrogance.

I know a lot of artists sort of struggle with this idea of having confidence and whether or not you can have too much.

So we dive into all of that in this episode. So let's start with some

introductions and then we'll just jump right in. So Alyssa, what is your definition of creative

confidence? When I think of creative confidence, I think of, yeah, I guess it's like you said, having your own

back or trusting yourself, even when you haven't maybe done something like this before or you don't

have all the skills. Like you trust yourself to figure it out or like if you go forward and you can't figure it out, like you know that you'll be able to go to somebody.

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