You're listening to the Savvy Painter podcast episode number 264.

Hello there savvy painters this week we are talking about how to create meaningful

paintings. I recorded this episode live in the savvy painter community and then later on

we had another discussion about it in Growth Studio which is always really fun

because that's where we take these topics and dive deeper into them.

And artists get to learn firsthand how to apply these concepts to their specific work.

What happens in your studio is a direct reflection of what is happening in your mind and growth studio is where I teach you how to grow your self-concept as an artist so that you can create freely knowing with full confidence

the value of your work. Growth Studio is open now and of course you should join us.

Just go to savvy painter.com forward slash join. Now let's talk about

how to create meaning in your painting. I've been thinking about this all week because I was

reading through a Facebook post last week and an artist was talking

about this and it just got me thinking about it and I want to offer you what may be a different way to think about how you bring meaning into your painting.

Artists want to create meaningful work, work that has an impact that makes the person who sees it either feel something or makes them think or shifts their

perspective a little bit. And I think that the most important work that we do as artists is to do that. For me it's about

connection and it's about communication. Art is about making sense of what it means to be human, and then sharing that with other people.

It's kind of like another way to sort of like nudge someone and say, hey, do you see that too?

And that impulse is very similar to what we do as kids.

When we made something we thought was really cool,

when we saw something that lit us up,

instantly we wanted to share it.

And it's that sort of like tugging on the sleeve,

saying, Mommy, look.

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