Just the act of making something, putting marks on a picture, working in a sketchbook,

anything is all that's needed, that you return to the practice.

This is a practice of coming back in and the artifact of whatever you're doing, it's not so

important.

The practice of doing gives you

momentum. It gives you confidence. It gives you ideas. I mean, the whole thing works if you're

doing something. Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the Art to Life podcast. As I shared last week,

I'm so excited about my next big project,

which is the second annual immersive free Art of Your Life workshop. It starts Monday,

March 3rd, and goes all the way till March 7th. And I would love all of you to come. And again,

it's free. And in this, I'm going to be teaching the first steps of

my new Bloom practice and three essential artmaking principles. It's going to take you and your

art to the next level. So really, if you'd like to join this free workshop, go to artlifefree.com.

You can sign out. I'm really excited about it. I put so much work into it.

As a result of this focus, I have been taking the last few weeks off to focus on it.

So I'm resharing from our archives, pivotal podcasts, the conversations that really informed this

free workshop. It led me to the discoveries that I'll be sharing with you in this upcoming workshop.

But it's also the ones I would love you to listen to in preparation for coming to attending the workshop.

So today I want to start with revisiting a really powerful episode called How to Drop Back into Your Art.

In it, I cover three common challenges that arise in the abses of making our art. Studio disconnection, quick confidence

loss, like losing your confidence, and then as well as the third one that's going to

sets in when you haven't been making art comparison,

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