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For artists who want to make more art, trust themselves, and make room for what they want.

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You Don’t Need Confidence. You Need Willingness.

What if confidence isn’t something you need before you begin? So many of us wait until we feel confident enough to make the painting, send the email, have the conversation, apply for the job, share our work, or try something new. But confidence may have the whole thing backwards. In this episode of The Art Coach , I’m talking about something I learned from watching my grandson learn to walk. He…

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Confidence Grows When You Try

Try first. Let confidence catch up.

Turn a feeling into line, shape, color, and composition.

Art That Feels True, Not Just Right

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Art That Expresses a Feeling

Make the Feeling Show

The Mark You Almost Make

When you know how to make something beautiful but not something honest.

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Your Art Does Not Feel Like You

Make the art only you can make.

The Quiet Promises You Break to Yourself

Stop Going Last

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Why You Stopped Trusting Yourself

Stop going last.

The work is fine. And you feel nothing standing in front of it.

There is a kind of stuck that does not look like stuck. It looks like competence. You are making, you are finishing things, the proportions are right and the color is handled, and anyone looking would say it is pretty good. And then you stand in front of it and feel almost nothing, because you know something they do not. It is correct and empty. It looks like art, and it does not feel like yours.…

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When the work is technically fine and somehow dead.

Flat, Competent, Managed, Bloodless, Sanded

Why You’re Tired and the Gentle Way Back to Your Art

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