Say Goodbye to Overwhelm (The Power of Constraints) - EP 286

Savvy Painter Podcast with Antrese Wood

Antrese Wood

Education, Arts, Visual Arts, Self-improvement

4.8 • 941 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

When the studio becomes an overwhelming place for artists, it may be time to apply some constraints to your creative process. Constraints are often viewed as things that limit options within our art practice. However, they can be the key to freedom and creativity in our work. On this episode, I’m giving you an inside look at the constraints I’ve placed on my current 100 Day Self-Portrait Challenge and my thought process behind them. I’ll also share some ideas about how to use constraints in y...

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Sabby Painter Podcast episode number 286.
0:06.0	Hello, hello, hello, welcome to another episode of the Savvy Painter podcast.
0:11.0	Today I want to talk to you about the power of constraints. I want to
0:17.0	talk about this because so often we think about constraints as closing off options and what I want to offer you today
0:26.7	and what we're going to explore is how it really is sort of like the key to
0:32.1	freedom and creativity within your work.
0:36.8	So I've come to realize how beautiful constraints are and I'm going to first tell you a story about when I kind of realize that there was something there and then I'm going to go into how I'm using it now and I'm going to give you some ideas about how you can use it in your own practice.
0:56.0	So I remember when I left my job at Disney and my first thought was this is going to be amazing I have all the time in the world to
1:05.7	paint and I can paint whatever I want whenever I want as much as I want it was amazing what ended up happening and this is the first
1:16.3	clue that I had and a very powerful lesson for me to learn about the power of
1:21.3	constraint. I finally had what I wanted. I finally had all the time in the world to paint.
1:29.4	And having all the time in the world to paint seems like such a pretty thought, right?
1:35.5	I can paint whatever I want, whenever I want, all day long, all night long if I want to.
1:41.9	And I can paint anything I want, anything at all. So at first I had
1:47.0	all these ideas, all these things I wanted to paint and it was so much fun and I did it. I just
1:52.4	painted all the time and I painted all the things. But what
1:56.0	started to happen was when I started having a hard time deciding, I couldn't figure out why. I couldn't figure out what was so hard about deciding what to paint
2:06.4	Why wasn't I getting anything done? I was becoming really
2:10.8	really indecisive and taking a really extra long time to paint.
2:17.4	So the thought that I had that I have all the time in the world to paint sort of backfired.
2:24.0	And I started feeling like I just had way too many options and I didn't know what to do.
2:29.3	And I remember realizing that my God, what just happened and it just seems so so crazy. So at Disney I
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