Learn to Paint Podcast

Welcome to the conversation with Sandi Hester. In it, you?ll discover how to tackle a new medium, what to do if you want to paint plein air but can?t seem to find the right spots, and why it?s so so so important to create protected spaces in your art practice just for the creating part, plus a whole lot more. 

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In the Extended Cut Bonus, we talk about focal points and why you may or may not need one and Hester explains how she thinks through what she sees and how she translates that to actual layers of paint. Join the Podcast Art Club here.

Videos Mentioned in the Show:

Hester?s Favorite Supplies

Trip with Hester's Mom and Husband 

Painting Husband at Pool 

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Welcome to the conversation with oil painter John MacDonald, you?ll discover what to do if you think you have a failed painting, how to assess your scene before you start  and how to take photos so that you actually have the information you NEED later when you start the painting. Plus a whole lot more.

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Podcast Art Club, you?ve got a great Extended Cut Bonus coming your way. In it, you?ll dive even deeper into value, edges and contrast. It?s a good one. Listen here.

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In our final December Replay, I?m talking with artist Kim Smith. Smith paints in oil and she explains how she created an art practice that fit into her life, she?ll give you ideas on how to use warms and cools to create dynamic shadows and discusses  the value of sometimes not sharing your work. Plus a whole lot more.

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Welcome to the conversation with Brian Miller!

In the interview you?ll learn the difference between oil and acrylic and which you might want to use if you're just getting started plus a great breakdown of how to create stronger shadows in your work. And always a whole lot more. 

Extended Cut Bonus

If you get to the end of the conversation and you?re not ready to be done, join us in the Podcast Art Club on Patreon where you?ll have access to the Extended Cut Bonus. In it, Miller talks about finding your style and gives some great ideas for how to get started strengthening your sense of composition.

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Welcome to my interview with artist Shari Blaukopf.

In the conversation, you?ll learn which materials you?ll need to get started in urban sketching, ideas for places to draw, and ideas for overcoming that sketchbook stage fright. Plus a whole lot more.

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Your bonus episode is jam packed with a great color discussion plus you?ll discover what makes a good value pattern and what to do if you live in an area of the world or are in a season where there IS no strong light. Listen here. [Podcast Art Club.]

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In the episode, I mention Blaukopf does a great job on her website sharing her materials. You can find that here. 

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Today we?re talking with artist Lisa Daria Kennedy.

Kennedy works many different ways across several media but today we?re focusing on her daily painting work.   

In the conversation, you?ll discover how she overcomes frustrations and keeps her paintings loose.  And you?ll learn how she has streamlined her approach so that showing up is as easy as possible.  Plus a whole lot more.

For show notes, head here.

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Feature Conversation

In the conversation, you?ll discover how to know when it?s time to shake up your process, some great advice for layering with yellows and ideas for how to get more familiar with your tools. Plus a whole lot more.

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In the Extended Cut Bonus, you?ll explore compositional formats and how to take your mind off what you're doing and why it's so important.

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Welcome to the interview with Erin Gregory! In the conversation, you?ll learn how to build a process with a lot of room for the unknown, what you?ll need from your references if that's the case and how to paint with loads of color.

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In the Extended Cut Bonus, discover the importance of keeping protected space in your practice and why it?s so important to spend time LOOKING at your work. 

Plus get access to over 40 additional Extended Cuts with guests.

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Welcome to the interview with Jerry Fresia!

Feature Conversation

In the conversation, you?ll discover a way of working that goes back to the masters, how to think about painting atmosphere, and why it all comes down to feelings. Plus a whole lot more.

See Fresia?s palette here.Ad Free  available here. [Art Club]Show notes with Fresia's work here.

Extended Cut Bonus -  

Available in the podcast art club, you?ll get a new way to think about black and how to create protected space around you when you work en plein air. 

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In the conversation with Jeannie McGuire, you?ll discover a way of working with watercolor that is much more similar to oil and acrylic, how to keep moving forward even when you?re not totally sure what to do next and some great ideas for getting your viewers where you WANT them. Plus a whole lot more.

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In the Extended Cut Bonus, you?ll get practical ideas for how to push through fear , what to do if you fall in love with an area and how to decide if you should keep it.  

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In the conversation with Ingrid Christensen, you?ll discover how your artistic heroes  can help you solve problems in your own work, the benefits of working with a split primary palette and why it?s so important to have a plan but then also STICK to the plan.  Plus a whole lot more.

Extended Cut Bonus [Podcast Art Club]

In the Extended Cut Bonus available to Podcast Art Club September 19th, you?ll get a great strategy for dealing with saturation and ideas for how to build a painting process that mirrors how we actually see. 

Learn more about the Podcast Art Club here. 

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Welcome to Ep. 61 where I?m talking with artist Ali Kay. In the conversation you?ll discover some planning options if you?re not keen on thumbnail drawings, new ways to approach your underpainting and a great combination of colors to mix a whole array of skin tones. 

In the bonus conversation available in the Podcast Art Club on Patreon, we talk more about how Kay creates her bold, colorful work. 

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Welcome to the conversation with Melanie Morris. You?ll discover the benefits of painting a reference photo multiple times, how your first steps don?t start with paint, and why a timer may be your key to staying present while you work. Plus a whole lot more.

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Extended Cut Bonus [Podcast Art Club]

Morris talks about how to create sky holes in your trees and a really inventive idea for how to get great references when you travel.  Available next week in the Podcast Art Club.

Reference Photo Freebee mentioned in the episode here.

Ep.34 with Melanie Morris here.

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Feature Episode:

In the conversation you?ll discover a strategy to ensure all your college papers goes together, reasons to build pieces on paper not more expensive surfaces and some great ideas for how to stay organized in your studio so that you can create work you love.

Extended Cut Bonus [Art Club]:

In the Extended Cut available in the Podcast Art Club, we talk about how to make art for the process and not the product, what allows her to work fast and we get more into design.  Listen here. 

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In the conversation you'll learn the steps needed to build a bright and loose painting, how to manage your palette and all about gouache. 

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You?ll discover strategies for getting lighter without getting too chalky and a bunch of great conversation about color, color, color. Listen here.

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Episode 15 guest Debbie Miller is BACK and we are talking hashtag challenges. What they are, why you might join one, and how they can help you get better at painting. 

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Please note: You can find a list of Hashtag Challenges here: The Ultimate Hashtag Challenge List

Learn more about the Podcast Art Club Mini Sprint Challenges here. 

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Welcome to Ep.82 with acrylic painter Dianna Shyne.

In the conversation, you?ll learn what you need to outrun those negative voices, a system to help you think through color mixing, and how using different combinations of primaries will get you different moods plus a whole lot more. 

Extended Cut Bonus [Patreon]

Shyne was so generous with her time and so the extended cut bonus is basically a whole second episode. You?ll learn how to approach the color of light and the absolute importance of the creative process.  Listen here. 

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Todd M. Casey (Ep.24) is back and he?s here to talk about a very practical tool, the color wheel. 

There are a bunch of color wheels in his new book The Oil Painter?s Handbook: A Contemporary Guide to Color Mixing, Pigments, Palettes and Harmony and for today?s mini we focus on the one that?s most relevant to painters for color mixing, the traditional subtractive color wheel. Referred to in the show as The Color Wheel. 

In the conversation, you?ll learn how it?s set up, what it?s based on and then we dive into using it for color mixing. 

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In the feature conversation with Zoey Frank, discover how to take on large, complex subjects, how you can use historical work as inspiration for your compositions and why you might want to  leave some colors OFF your palette. Plus a whole lot more.

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In your Extended Cut Bonus [Patreon], explore how doing a study in the middle of your process may help you problem solve and the importance of having really specific ideas when we explore.  Listen here. 

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Welcome to the special segment: The Art Habit, where I talk with artists who are creating their art journeys.

Here's a 20-minute preview of the full 47 minute episode.

The full episode was live for a week and now you?ll have access to the full episode at Patreon for Art Club Members. Here's a direct link to the episode and it'll explain how to sign up.

ALLISON MOIR-SMITH

Moir-Smith is an acrylic painter who came to art as part of a recovery process after a brain injury. She needed something to do for Brain Breaks and she found adult coloring books. This has expanded to a robust daily(ish) art practice where she explores subjects from flowers to landscape to fruit to now people.  

In the full interview, you?ll learn how to use hashtag challenges to improve your work, some great advice on making Instagram art friends  and why those friends will help you be a better painter AND you?ll discover that sometimes you absolutely don't have to forge a new path. Just use the path that comes with the map.  Plus  a whole lot more.

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Moir-Smith mentions a few images and materials in the conversation. You can find them here:

Her Sta-Wet palette.

Windy plein air event.

Mini Sprint Value Challenge

Belly painting and drawing

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Mastering Watercolor Painting with Ron Stocke: Techniques, Materials, and Creative Expression

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Feature Interview

In the conversation you?ll discover a unique way to approach the colors on your palette, how to decide whether to paint around or through an object, and what you need in your focal area ? and everywhere else. 

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In the Extended Cut Bonus, you?ll learn how Stocke gets strategic about his subjects from a color standpoint and some of artist?s favorite combinations of gray. Join the Podcast Art Club on Patreon, here.

Episode Highlights:

 Materials-Brushes and paint: Find the right tools for capturing fleeting moments and avoiding excessive detail. Plus learn how your watercolor palette may be working against you and what you can do about it. 

The significance of pigments: Discover what's in your paint and why that makes a difference in your paintings. 

Stocke's process: From observing the subject to applying washes and adding final details, learn how Stocke's process helps him (and maybe you) create powerful paintings.

Selecting a scene: Explore the role of light, shadow, and composition in creating captivating watercolor paintings.

-Understanding focal areas: Learn why Stocke moves from big to small shapes, where he uses details and where he uses abstraction to create visually compelling compositions.

Practical tips for painting on location: Get ideas on how to deal with changing light including what you need to get in your initial sketch so that you can paint even after all your shadows move.

Join us for an inspiring conversation with Ron Stocke as he shares his expertise, techniques, and insights into mastering the art of watercolor painting. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced artist, this episode offers valuable knowledge and encouragement to fuel your own creative journey.

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Welcome to the DESIGN episode with Mark Eanes. This is Eanes second time on the show. He first joined us in Episode 11 to talk color. 

In this episode you?ll learn the difference between design and composition, the basic elements of design and then we walk through each of the 7 principles of design and talk in depth about what they are and how to make sure you have them plus a whole lot more.

Listen to the Patreon Bonus Episode  here.
Check out the written interview Mark did with me all about the importance of drawing, here.

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The ?I don?t have time to paint? problem is one all of us face. But in today's episode, we explore all the benefits of starting small. 

You?re going to learn how to shift your success metrics, get some ideas for what you can do in 20 minutes and how just a small amount of daily practice helps you and those you love get ready for a larger art practice. 

Today we?re going to discover the mighty power of 20 minutes. 

So if you don?t paint consistently but want to or are struggling with finding time in your schedule, this is the show for you. 

Learn more about the #20for20ArtChallenge2023 here.

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Teddi Parker: Embracing Art and Daily Painting

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Feature Conversation:

In the conversation you?ll discover two totally different approaches you can use to build a painting, everything you need to know about using house paint as your acrylic paint, and how your brush strokes can help you create paintings that are loose and impressionistic. Plus a whole lot more.

Extended Cut Bonus

We talk color including how Parker approaches her palette and mixing, how she handles saturation, and how her faith has helped her have a healthier relationship with social media. Listen here.

Episode Highlights:

Early days: Teddi Parker's discovery of the daily painting movement and its influence on Parker's art practice.

Making time: How to balance motherhood and painting including places you might look to carve out time. 

Excitement as your driver: Learn why excitement is your best guide and why its important to learn to trust it. 

Paint choices: When and how you might decide to use Golden Acrylics or switch to house paint.

 

Brush preferences: How flat, large brushes might help you create the looser style you?re aiming for.

Building a painting: Discover how different methods for building up paint work with different types of subjects.

Getting loose: Learn what you need from your drawing, materials and process to create loose paintings.

The importance of references: How to set up a still life that also creates a strong painting.

Series: How working with a single idea can help you play and find your next ideas.   

Join us as we dive into the artistic journey of Teddi Parker. From growing up in a creative household to discovering the daily painting movement, Parker's passion for art and her ability to trust her own gut, has helped her paint bright and joyful paintings.  

In the conversation, we explore how she makes time in a busy life for a robust art practice, how she avoids burnout and all things technical from the paint she uses to how she keeps her brushstrokes loose.  

Tune in for an inspiring exploration of dedication and creativity.

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In the conversation with abstract expressionist Liz Murphy you?ll get ideas on mindsets that might be useful when you?re just starting out (but really, sort of anytime in your art journey), why it?s so important to create a sense of freedom in your studio plus what gets in the way of play and some ideas for overcoming them. 

In the Extended Cut Bonus: 

We talk color harmony and the true joy we can find in really simple approaches to color.  Find it here.

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In this feature interview with Patti Vincent, you?ll learn a ton about gouache including why it might be a good fit for your artistic goals. 

Plus we really get into the importance of simplification. (Thank you Podcast Art Club for your suggestions here!) What it is and how to approach it across your whole process. You might be surprised at where simplification BEGINS for Vincent. And as always, a whole lot more.

Extended Cut Bonus 

In this episode?s Extended Cut Bonus, (available at the Podcast Art Club on Patreon) you?ll discover how Vincent approaches her foreground, middle ground and background and you?ll get some great ideas for how to inch your way into plein air painting. 

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Many guests on the show use what?s called a limited palette. A limited palette can be a powerful way to improve your color confidence and create harmonious work. So this week we are deep diving into what IS a limited palette, how you might set one up and why you might want to give one a try. 

Guests mention in the episode in alphabetical order:

Lisa Daria Kennedy, Ep.14

Louise Fletcher, Ep.48

Patti Vincent, Ep.75

Ron Stocke, upcoming

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In the conversation, you?ll learn why sometimes it makes sense to take the thinner out of your medium mixture and just use oil, how the right brush can get you sharp edges and how paper cut outs might help you begin to understand the structure of your own work. Plus a whole lot more.

Extended Cut Bonus: 

In the Extended Cut Bonus (available on Patreon) Brnger talks getting loose, the positive role of feeling stressed out, and ways to keep from getting precious with your materials. Plus we talk about why you might want to consider painting over those old paintings.

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In Ep.71 with Yong Hong Zhong, we talked a lot about story. 

In today's Mini, I'm going to break down the idea of story a bit more and look at some examples. 

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In the conversation with watercolorist Yong Hong Zhong, you?ll learn the one thing Zhong says you need to have figured out before you start painting, advice for getting looser and questions to ask yourself to find your painting?s story. 

In the Extended Cut Bonus available at the Podcast Art Club, you'll learn the yellow, red, and blue Zhong suggests for a limited palette and he gives you ideas for where to focus if you feel like you don?t yet have a strong sense of color. 

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Welcome to the conversation with Louise Fletcher! You?ll learn the difference between working fast and being rushed, how to move between working intuitively and analytically,  and why you always want to follow your own joy. Plus a whole lot more.

Extended Cut Bonus:
This episode comes with a great Extended Cut Bonus where we move from mindset into more technical pieces. You?ll discover a new reason why you might want to reach for a limited palette, some advice on composition and a few pointers on how to critique your own work. Grab it by signing up at any tier at the Podcast Art Club here.

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In Episode 70, I?m talking with artist Alice Sheridan. In the conversation, you?ll discover how a change in space might change your work, why having clear intent is so important and what to do when you need to say goodbye to a layer you love. Plus a whole lot more.

In this episode?s Extended Cut Bonus, you?ll learn why drawing might be the key to figuring out what a painting is about and you'll discover some great ideas for how to hold time for your art practice. You can take a listen by joining the Podcast Art Club over on Patreon at any tier. 

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Welcome to a new Podcast Art Club segment called, The Art Habit.

In it, I talk with artists who are creating their art journeys.

This is a Podcast Art Club exclusive so I've shared the first 15 minutes of the new segment here and if you'd like to listen to the full episode, head to Patreon.com/learntopaintpodcast

Today?s guest: Sam Chappell

If you?re on Instagram you may know her as eastnorthstudio. Chappell is an acrylic painter and in the full conversation, you?ll learn how Chappell manages burnout, how she used the Pandemic to focus on painting and why sometimes the hard part is giving ourselves permission to do less. 

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We love talking with daily painters on the show. But if you have an occasional art practice and want to paint daily, how do you make that transition? Here are 7 ideas to get you started. 

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Today I?m talking with artist Randy Hayashi. In the interview, you?ll learn a new way to think through your painting plan, a mixing palette that will help you create more dynamic color in your work, and how to think through a painting in terms of foreground, middle ground and background plus a whole lot more.

In this episode?s bonus episode you?ll learn how Hayashi?s style has changed over the years and what habits help him make sure he?s ready to paint each week. You can take a listen by joining the Podcast Art Club over on Patreon at any tier. 

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Jessica Fields has a process that WORKS. It gives her what she needs but also makes space for what her paintings need. Let's look into it... and what it might mean for how you work.

Check out Ep.67 here. 

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I?m talking with artist Jessica Fields. In the conversation you?ll learn that you have more than just brushes when it comes to painting, how obstacles may help you create your best work and a way to plan a painting around a specific color relationship

In the extended cut bonus conversation over in the Podcast Art Club on Patreon, we talk pattern, edges and the important lessons Fields learned from a 100 day project. Listen to that here.

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The ?I don?t have time to paint? problem is one all of us face. But in today's episode, we explore all the benefits of starting small. 

You?re going to learn how to shift your success metrics, get some ideas for what you can do in 20 minutes and how just a small amount of daily practice helps you and those you love get ready for a larger art practice. 

Today we?re going to discover the mighty power of 20 minutes. 

So if you don?t paint consistently but want to or are struggling with finding time in your schedule, this is the show for you. 

Learn more about the #20for20ArtChallenge2023 here.

Join the Podcast Art Club here.

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In the interview with Felicia Forte, we don?t cover tools or techniques. Forte  has a great FAQ at her website to answer all of that. 

Instead, we delve into a conversation about process, big and small. We discuss how to create space for your voice to come out, why loving a teacher?s approach is much more important than any credentials they might have, and how to create work that is truly yours. 

At some point you?ll hear Forte reference our pre interview tech call where she walked me through her approach for her painting Christmas. That conversation is available to Podcast Art Club Members here.

Show notes:
https://www.learntopaintpodcast.com/podcast/episode65

Bonus Conversation (Podcast Art Club) here. 

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Welcome to my [archive] interview with Lynn Whipple. In the conversation you?ll discover ways to get looser in your painting, the importance of being playful and why it?s so critical to make work you don?t like. 

Listen to the bonus conversation on Patreon here. 

Whipple gives you an additional exercise to try at home plus we get into composition and a whole lot more. Get it here. 

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What is varnish? Why might you use it? How do you apply it, and how do you know if you've applied it incorrectly?

Mary Weisenburger from Gamblin is back on the show with answers to all of your vanishing questions!

Show notes: https://www.learntopaintpodcast.com/podcast/episode64
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I?m talking with artist Nancy Reyner. In the conversation you?ll discover the absolute versatility of acrylics, the power of learning to look at your work like a viewer, and how to not destroy a painting that?s almost finished plus a whole lot more.

In the bonus conversation available on Patreon , we dig more into Reyner?s ocean and gold leaf series and you?ll learn how focal points can help move your viewer?s from a left brain to a right brain experience and why it matters.

Show notes:
https://www.learntopaintpodcast.com/podcast/episode63

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Ep.14 guest Lisa Daria Kennedy is back and this time, we?re going large!

Kennedy joined me back in Episode 14 to talk about her work as a daily painter. That means she starts and finishes a painting every day. But that?s only part of her studio practice, which includes much larger work. And that?s what we?re talking about today. 

In the conversation, you?ll discover the power of setting time limits for working big, how larger, more experimental pieces can be a great fit with your daily art practice and how to overcome that blank giant canvas.

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Welcome to Ep.61 with Ali Kay. In the conversation you?ll discover some planning options if you?re not keen on thumbnail drawings, new ways to approach your underpainting and a great combination of colors to mix a whole array of skin tones. 

In the bonus conversation available, in the Podcast Art Club on Patreon, we talk more about how Kay creates her bold, colorful work.

Show Notes:
www.learntopaintpodcast.com/podcast/episode61

Join the Podcast Art Club Community: https://www.patreon.com/learntopaintpodcast

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In episode 60, I?m talking with Sarah Sedwick about an absolutely essential concept for artists: value.

In Part I, you?ll discover great tools for simplifying that complexity and why they are critical to creating stronger paintings. You?ll learn all about creating focal points, deciding hierarchies and the power of contrasts.

In Part 2 available over on Patreon, we move from Sedwick?s preparatory studies into how she thinks about value in her full color paintings. 

You?ll discover new ways to think about your most saturated colors, reasons to premix your paint piles and why Sedwick is always keeping an eye on her whites.

Show Notes:
www.learntopaintpodcast.com/podcast/episode60

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In Ep. 59,  I'm talking with watercolorist Steve Griggs. In the conversation, you?ll discover the benefits of replicating your teachers and how to know when it?s time to move beyond their style, how to approach your primaries if you want bright colors and an incredibly powerful way to use sketchbooks in your art process. 

Podcast Art Club: Your ad free episode is available here. 

Plus, want the extended cut? It?s available on Patreon. We dig deeper into loose painting and you?ll learn some of Grigg's favorite ways of mixing watercolor paints on your paper. You can find all of that at patreon.com/learntopaintpodcast

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In the conversation, you?ll discover Morris' system for keeping loose when working large, how to keep yourself from being overwhelmed when you buy flowers for painting and so many great tips on color. Seriously, you?ll want to write these down. 

Patreon: Check out your bonus conversation with Morris here. We talk ugly middle stages and how to learn from your teachers without copying them (and why that will help you in the long run.) Plus, 7 Painting & Color Tips from Morris. 

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Welcome to a new Podcast Art Club segment called, The Art Habit. 

In it, I talk with artists who are creating their art journeys.

This is a Podcast Art Club exclusive so I've shared the first 10 minutes of the new segment here and if you'd like to listen to the full episode, head to Patreon.com/learntopaintpodcast

First up: Tait Preis.

If you?re on Instagram you may know her as proununcedtyte. Preis is an oil painter and in the full conversation, you?ll learn how to deal with burnout, how to find a schedule that works and ideas on where you might adjust your schedule so that you can paint more. 

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Welcome to my conversation with artist and illustrator, Tara Kate.

In the conversation, yes we do talk about birds, but really it?s a conversation about details and realism and setting up an art practice that works for you.

In the conversation you?ll get some ideas for setting up focused practice, how your tools can help you train your eyes to see, and what you might need in a reference especially if you?re interested in realism. Plus we talk feathers and feet and a whole lot more.

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This week, we're talking with Brian Miller. 

In the conversation you?ll learn the difference between oil and acrylic and which you might want to use if you're just getting started plus a great breakdown of how to create stronger shadows in your work. And always a whole lot more. 

If you get to the end of the conversation and you?re not ready to be done,  join us in the Podcast Art Club on Patreon where you?ll have access to the extended cut bonus conversation. In it, Miller talks about finding your style and gives some great ideas for how to get started strengthening your sense of composition. Head to the Podcast Art Club to learn more. https://www.patreon.com/learntopaintpodcast


For show notes including links to Brian Miller's workshops, head here: https://www.learntopaintpodcast.com/podcast/episode56

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