Hello there and welcome to another episode of the Savvy Painter podcast. I'm your host,

Anne Treeswood. And if you are new here, welcome. So glad you found me. And if you've been listening

for a while, welcome back. I'm super happy to have you here. In this episode, we are diving into perfectionism.

This is part four in a four-part series from a live event.

These topics have been coming up a lot, a lot, a lot in my conversations with artists.

So I wanted to share these events with all of you.

And if you haven't picked up on

the pattern yet, there is a worksheet for perfectionism as well. You are welcome to pick that up

in the show notes. As always, it is designed to help you just gain an understanding of where

this shows up in your life and give you a little bit of awareness

around it because that's the only way that you're going to be able to shift it. Okay, here we go.

So friends, we're going to talk about perfectionism today, all the different many ways it shows up in our studio and throughout our practice.

There are really obvious ways that perfectionism shows up.

You know, a lot of times I think we have the idea that perfectionism shows up

in our artwork in the sense that we've got to get like everything rendered perfectly. And

and I think sometimes the idea might be it's either got to be almost like, I don't think we,

we are consciously saying this to ourselves, but I think like there's

this idea like that it has to be like a photograph in a way, even though we know we don't want

our work to be like a photograph or it's got to be like Rembrandt or, you know, like there's some

idea that we have in our head that is what perfection is. And the only thing that we really

know about our individual ideas about perfection is that whatever we're doing is not it.

Like we typically do not have an idea about it in the sense of like, oh, I can tell you when I have reached perfection.

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