Hey it's Antrice and welcome to another episode of the savvy painter

podcast in this episode I want to talk about creativity and the way that we

think about it. This is something I've been talking a lot about with my students in Grow Studio and it's been really top of my mind because I think there's a lot of elements of it that we completely overlook.

And I want to start with creativity by recognizing that everything that we create

starts as an idea in our mind. It starts as a thought that we have. So we might see the way the light is hitting an

object and think, wow, that's really beautiful, I want to paint that, or we may look

at a scene and really just love the nostalgia, but it always starts with a thought.

We can see the color of an object and decide that that is just such an amazing reflection and we want to create that. We can look at another

person's artwork and think wow that's really inspiring. It makes me think of

this other thing and I'm gonna make make a painting out of that. And I also want to show you how some of our hidden thoughts also impact what we end up with on the canvas. I've said this many times before in this

podcast that what we create is a direct reflection of what's happening in our

mind. What happens on the canvas, what we produce, the results that we get are a direct reflection of

what we're thinking about.

And so for the past couple of weeks, this topic has been discussed over and over again in Growth Studio and I wanted to talk about it here on the podcast because I think it's super, super important.

As artists, I think we know that we see things a little bit differently than other people.

Sometimes we will see a scene or an image that to us is really breathtaking or has an enormous amount of beauty, while other people might just pass it right by.

So here's an example of that.

When I lived in Los Angeles, I used to go to the Los Angeles River to paint and some of the first paintings that I

sold after I quit Disney were from this LA River series. I would get up really

early in the morning and I would go out there and paint because I loved the way that the

haze looked over the city and how it sort of accentuated the atmospheric

perspective and I especially loved how life continued to flourish in the L.A. River. So if you're not from

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