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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nYou might not be selling your art, or hanging it in a gallery but that doesn\u2019t make you \u201cnot an artist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That was an awkward sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I remember when I changed the title on my Facebook Page from Blogger to Artist. I most definitely did not identify as an artist. I felt like the hugest fraud putting that on there BUT\u2026\u2026the fact was that I made art and crazy enough, I even sold my art\u2026..even crazier, people had been buying my art on greeting cards for years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I wasn\u2019t an artist because I wasn\u2019t very good. I most definitely wasn\u2019t as good as \u201cthem\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Imposter Syndrome is that uncomfortable feeling that you feel when you think you are unqualified and incompetent. If you manage to do something well, you might chalk it up to good luck. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
After much therapy, I figured out that feelings of \u201cnot being good enough\u201d weren\u2019t really serving me and I wanted to live life differently. That involved redefining how I saw and spoke about myself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Art was a big one for me because I\u2019ve always felt called to create. But I spent a huge portion of my life doubting my abilities and denying myself the right to try and fail while still having fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I can, in some small way, encourage you to try – knowing that failing is just part of trying; and encourage you to have fun while trying – I honestly believe that if you want to, you can create art to spark joy, too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not everyone wants to draw or color and that\u2019s fine. But if there\u2019s a part of you<\/strong> that has always wanted to but hasn\u2019t given yourself permission to – for whatever reason\u2026\u2026know that this is a safe space to start. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Calling all my fellow artists and creatives, we\u2019d love to have you join us as we do a 30 day Art Challenge from September 1-30. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We\u2019d LOVE to have you join our art challenge in September. Keep following for more details! But I can\u2019t draw\/paint\/color\/etc; \u201cI\u2019m not an artist.\u201d you might be saying. You might not be selling your art, or hanging it in a gallery but that doesn\u2019t make you \u201cnot an artist.\u201d That was an awkward sentence. I … Continue reading “Imposter Syndrome”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[256,16,63],"tags":[258,257,284,263,265,283,260,281,280,285,282],"class_list":["post-9226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30-day-art-challenge","category-me","category-mental-health","tag-art","tag-art-challenge","tag-art-prompts","tag-create","tag-creativity","tag-doodle","tag-draw","tag-fraud","tag-imposter-syndrome","tag-join-us","tag-september"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}