Elizabeth Gilbert on Nurturing creativity

In Gilbert's speech she mentioned a moment while writing Eat, Pray, Love where she finds herself stuck in her own genius and she feels this intense feeling of failure. I had a similar experience last week while working on my second painting in the series. I have never felt 100% confident in my painting abilities until I produced my first piece of work. However embarking on my second piece for some reason I could not get over the fact that one would be better then the other or the shading ect was not perfect. I then came to thought that it's ok to not be perfect; flaws sometimes make things beautiful. I know I have flaws in my paintings but I know its the way that I make flaws which makes my piece beautiful and unique.

Painting 1. The background is a light gray which you cant tell by the picture.