How To Reconnect With Play And Joy In Your Art - Ep309

Savvy Painter Podcast with Antrese Wood

Antrese Wood

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4.8 • 891 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Let's chat about embracing experimentation, playfulness, and bringing a childlike sense of curiosity into your creative process! In this episode, Antrese Wood shares her experiences and insights on how fear of failure and perfectionism stifles creativity, and offers strategies to overcome these obstacles.

How do we do that? Bring back play and experimentation into your creative process.

Play and experimentation leads to authenticity, growth, and learning. Our fear of failure and perfectionism blocks creativity, so we discuss concrete techniques to recognize and work through these fears. Embracing mistakes and imperfections as part of your process, and maintaining a sense of curiosity and joy, are keys to creating meaningful and emotional art.

Here's what you learn how to do today in this episode:

Embrace experimentation and playfulness in your creative process to unlock authenticity and growth.
Recognize when fear of failure or perfectionism is driving your actions and stifling creativity.
Name and acknowledge your fears, then paint your way through them by reconnecting with your purpose as an artist.
Remind yourself that "perfection is not enough" – technical mastery alone does not create emotional connection.
When you make a "mistake," say "how interesting" to shift into a mindset of curiosity and exploration.
Check out the teachings of Benjamin Zander (composer/teacher) for inspiration on embracing imperfection and connecting with audiences.
Keep your adventurous, childlike spirit alive in your artwork.
Create space and habits that allow for joyful, uninhibited creative expression.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Savvy Painter Podcast.
0:05.0	Hope you are doing well.
0:08.0	Today I'm a little bit late on the podcast.
0:11.0	I'm recording it a day late for those of you who listen to it in real time.
0:15.8	And I'm kind of getting back, I'm getting back into the groove of things. I feel like it's really
0:20.0	echo in here. Maybe this isn't the room to do this in. We'll find out. I'm just going to roll with it so that I get the
0:25.7	podcast out today. But I feel like I've been playing Tetris with my schedule. So as I'm fitting everything back in and making sure that there is
0:37.2	space in my day for all the things that I want to get done, there's me kind of moving things around playing
0:45.4	playing Tetris is what I call it with my schedule and then experiencing that
0:51.0	new organization and seeing kind of where it breaks.
0:55.0	And so this week I noticed where it kind of breaks
0:57.4	where I was like, you know, some friends invited me out
1:00.6	and I was like, I really need some some girl time I really want to be with my
1:04.7	friends so I went out with my friends which was didn't you know I'm like okay it's not
1:11.3	like I have anything on my schedule for tonight that I was expecting to or really
1:15.4	needing to get done but I did the next morning and I am the type of person I need my sleep. I don't function well. This is something that I have really noticed and sort of developed over the last couple of years is a much more structured sleep hygiene, I guess, than I've ever had in my life. So a long way of saying that what
1:37.9	I just experienced is yeah and when I break that I can really feel it.
1:42.1	Anyway so just interesting thing to me break that I can really feel it.
1:43.0	Anyway, so just interesting thing to me at least
1:45.7	is learning how we are our most creative,
1:50.2	learning when we work well, et cetera, et cetera, it's an evolving process so just wanted to share that with you
1:57.1	that I'm kind of expecting there to be a little bit of wiggle room and how I do things until those Tetris pieces in my calendar
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