Hello, my friends. Welcome to another episode of the Savvy Painter Podcast. I'm Antrice, your host. Welcome, welcome. If you've been listening for a while, welcome back. And if you are new here, welcome. I am so glad you have found me. Savvy Painter Podcast is the podcast for artists who want practical technical tips to create a meaningful art

practice that is both fulfilling and supports you. So today I want to talk about how, you know,

do you remember when you were a kid you used to draw just because you loved it and you would get

lost in it and hours would go by

and it didn't even occur to you what you were going to be doing with it. Next, you just made the

drawing or you just did the thing because it was so much fun. So I've been thinking a lot about that

because for my trust challenge, what I

decided that I was going to do, I had this plan every day. I was going to grab my sketchbook,

go to some cafe and take, you know, I don't know, half an hour to sketch all the people around because I used to love, love, love doing that.

I have so many just incredible memories of, oh my gosh, I can even see the drawings of being in New York City and sitting at a Starbucks and just

watching everybody go by and filling my sketchbook with all of these drawings.

And the first time I came to Argentina, I had been on this really long expedition in, this is a whole other story, but a really

long expedition. It was 90 days of kayaking and mountaineering in the southern mountains and

fjords of Chile. And I went to the airport because my visa ran out.

And I just said, what's the next available cheapest flight?

And it was to Buenos Aires.

So that was the first time I ever came to Argentina.

And I just spent the entire week sitting, drinking coffee, watching people walk by and drawing

of them. It's one of my favorite, favorite things to do. And so I thought for my trust

challenge, I'm just going to sit in cafes and draw because it just makes my heart full. I don't even know

how else to describe it. It just makes my heart full. That was the plan. And for a couple weeks,

that's exactly what I did. And then things started to shift. I, well, first of all, what I think is amazing about

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