Hey there and welcome back to the Savvy Painter Podcast. I'm your host, Antreuse Wood,

and today we are continuing our series on the Create Spiral. It's a growth path for artist,

and it's a framework that I use to help artists move through creative blocks. And the idea

behind this framework is that we have a natural way of creating and thinking about our creative blocks. And the idea behind this framework is that we have a natural way of creating

and thinking about our creative process. So this framework guides artists through the natural

recurring phases of creative growth so that you can be in your creative process without

all the overwhelm and the second guessing that we often feel around making,

sharing, and selling our art. So last week, we talked about the curiosity phase, and that's the

exciting moment when something new sparks. But then what happens after that? What happens is we're

super excited to start, usually, right? So we're painting in a rush

or we're just like have all this energy around what it is that we're doing or what we're creating.

There's this excitement. There's this really positive energy that we have going into the studio or

working on the canvas. And we get part way through and we

start to lose focus now that could be on an individual painting for some people for some people

that's on a series of paintings you might get four or five paintings in or two or three paintings in

and you start to lose focus.

And that's when the second guessing starts.

It's resistance.

And this resistance has many, many faces.

But what it does is it slows you down and it fogs up your insights.

It's sort of like an invisible wall between

your insights and the aha moments and like the cool things that you're about to learn about

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