Go so far that you've gone too far.

That is so great a practice because if you don't,

you're gonna stop.

You're just gonna stop yourself and you're gonna be miles

from possibly where it could have been.

Hey everyone, welcome back to the Art to Life podcast.

Excited, I've been working on some paintings upstairs and trying to finish them.

And then I thought, oh my God, this is like so hard to finish these paintings.

And I get so many questions around finishing and I can't believe I've never talked about it.

So I just came down here and I'm going to just share what's going on in my head around finishing

because I think this is challenging for a lot of reasons.

So let me just dive into this around the challenges people face around finishing. Welcome to Art to Life, a podcast for the creatively curious.

My name is Nicholas Wilton, and each week I'll help you rediscover not just the art of your life, but the art in your life.

Join me as we explore that perfect blue at twilight,

the wild frontiers of art making,

and the extraordinary joy of finding your ways you go.

The challenges around finishing what holds us back from this, from getting completion.

And first and foremost, of course, of course, it's not knowing, not knowing when something's done.

There's a level of experience needed to finish something.

We get pretty good at starting things because we start a lot more

things than we finish them. Like we kind of, that's pretty easy. But it's this hard thing of

finishing and knowing when something's finished and how far to go with it. So there's just a

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