Hello, my friends. Welcome to another episode of the Savvy Painter Podcast. I am your host,

Aunt Trees Wood. And if you have been listening for a while, welcome back. And if you are new here,

welcome. I'm so glad you found me. Savvy Painter Podcast is the podcast for artists who want

practical tactical tips to create a meaningful art practice that is both fulfilling and supports you.

So picture this. You're standing in your studio, brush in hand, completely focused on the

canvas in front of you. You make a brush stroke, maybe it's a highlight on the cheek or a shadow

under a tree or a simple line and it just doesn't go as

intended. So what happens next? In most cases, there's an immediate internal response. Like,

you messed it up. How could you be so stupid? Why did you do that? Great. Now you've totally ruined the painting. But here's what I want

you to think about. This is self-aggression over a brush stroke. I want you to really think

about that for a minute. Self-aggression over a brush stroke. So let me ask you something,

and I want you to be really, really honest with yourself,

would you ever talk to another artist this way?

If a fellow painter made that exact same mark, would you look at them and say,

oh, my God, you are such an idiot?

Of course not.

You'd probably say something like, hey, what if we tried this other approach? Or, hey, that's

an interesting texture. Let's see where it takes us. Where do we want to go next with this? So if that's

the way that we would treat another painter, another friend of ours, why do we accept this kind of

treatment from ourselves? And more importantly, what is this kind of treatment costing

us creatively? Today, we're diving deep into something that is happening in studios everywhere,

but I don't think anyone's really talking about it. It's subtle. It's automatic and it's absolutely

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