How to Cultivate Creative Confidence As an Artist
Savvy Painter Podcast with Antrese Wood
Antrese Wood
4.8 • 891 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
As an artist, you might have been taught (implicitly or explicitly) that your work doesn’t matter. Many artists I’ve worked with have heard it in school, at home, and in the media.
Yet, your work as an artist does matter. It can help others feel, connect, and demonstrate the beauty of the world and the human experience. But only when you’re centered, present, and confident in your creative process do you allow that potential impact to flourish.
In this episode of The Savvy Painter podcast, you’ll hear the first part of a live event I gave a while back that covers what creative confidence is, what it looks like, where it comes from, and how to curate it for yourself. You’ll also hear coaching examples with a few attendees as I help them work through fears that have resulted in a lack of progress, self-sabotaging habits, and a feeling of invisibility.
4:58 - What creative confidence in your artistic abilities looks like
8:15 - The two types of confidence you can lean on as an artist and how they differ
13:51 - What usually stands in the way of creating what you want and how to overcome it
18:33 - How you can curate self-confidence and examples of thoughts that get in the way
23:19 - How Nancy’s thoughts have hindered her progress, the fears they’ve exposed, and their impact on her physically
36:08 - How Carol’s fear and familiar thoughts have led to habits of self-sabotage
42:59 - What happens in your brain when it offers you the worst-case scenario and more thoughts that can help you create self-confidence
46:22 - Why Ekaterina feels invisible despite creating all kinds of things and where to focus to begin to push past it
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my friends, and welcome to another episode of this Happy Painer podcast. If you are new here, |
| 0:09.3 | welcome. I'm so glad you found the podcast. And if you've been listening for a while, welcome back. |
| 0:15.1 | This is the first of a four-part series. What you are about to listen to is a replay of a live event that I gave |
| 0:23.6 | a while back. And gosh, I think it's been about two years already. But I listened to it again |
| 0:29.5 | recently and I realized that I just had to share it with you as a podcast episode because this is |
| 0:34.3 | powerful, powerful stuff. When you are truly confident in your art as an artist and |
| 0:39.8 | in your painting abilities, your entire practice changes. You create more work, you effortlessly |
| 0:45.7 | show it, and you engage more with your collectors. It's an upward spiral that just keeps |
| 0:51.4 | getting better and better and better as you grow. One last thing before we |
| 0:55.6 | begin, I created special worksheets for every single one of these live events when I did them. |
| 1:02.0 | So I want to make sure you get those as well. So you get the full experience. So to grab yours, |
| 1:08.0 | just go ahead and check out the show notes for this episode. There will be a link |
| 1:11.1 | to pick up your worksheet for this episode. Okay, so let's just dive in. So today's call is |
| 1:18.9 | focused on creative confidence. One of my favorite things to talk about, a self-confident |
| 1:25.8 | artist is going to think that they are good, they are capable, they are worthy, |
| 1:33.4 | they're going to think they're strong, they're going to think they're competent. |
| 1:36.8 | A self-confident artist knows that it's okay to fail. |
| 1:42.3 | And so they take risks. |
| 1:43.9 | We learn from our mistakes and we grow more |
| 1:46.8 | quickly. We do like as we develop this capacity, we learn to grow. We learn to do things for |
| 1:54.7 | ourselves faster and easier. So that's our topic for today. You all probably know who I am. You likely recognize my |
| 2:06.0 | voice, but you have not met me before. I'm Anne Trees with. I'm the host of this Abby Painter |
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