Savvy Painter Podcast With Antrese Wood

Karin Olah got her start in the fabric industry. Part of her job was to create a dye to perfectly match an object to a fabric.Today, Karin uses her extensive knowledge of color and fabrics to create layered images using fabric, paint, and mixed media.Karin talks about her process for creating art plus how she built up an amazing support group of artists when she moved to a new community.Get Savvy! Sign up for exclusive show notes and episode guides: http://savvypainter.com

Kevin Macpherson has won numerous awards for his plein air paintings.In this episode, Antrese and Kevin talk about: • The development of his career• How Kevin chooses to take risks and live without regret• The surprising origin of Kevin's extremely limited palette.• Travels in China and what Kevin does to make children smile.Get Savvy! Sign up for exclusive show notes and episode guides: http://savvypainter.com

David Kassan would be labeled as a realist painter. You can practically see the blood pulsing through the veins of his subjects. But David describes his paintings more as documentaries, and as a way to spend time with his family who are often his subjects.David talks about his work, his transition from a graphic designer to a full time painter, and why he started the Kassan Foundation - a non profit that awards a yearly grant to one artist and one musician (http://kassanfoundation.com). Get Savvy! Sign up for exclusive show notes and episode guides: http://savvypainter.com

Stanley Goldstein is a realist painter, representing large and small-scale scenes of everyday life as well as city scenes, interiors, and landscapes. Stanley shares how he uses video and photography as reference materials. How he distances himself from the photo with sketches and then what his theater experience contributes to his composition.We talk about how the birth of his son directly and indirectly influenced his work and studio practices. He also generously walks me through how he transitioned from waiting tables to full time gallery work.Get Savvy! Sign up for exclusive show notes and episode guides: http://savvypainter.com

Walt Morton gives a mindblowing talk on the contents of his notebooks: The allure of the Poison Chalice. Backwards Engineering the work of other artists. Understanding what draws you to art and other artists. The Familiar and the Unfamiliar. Former ad creative exec Walt Morton gave himself a challenge: 10 years to dedicate himself entirely to his art. He keeps copious detailed notes on his thinking, and dissects the work of other artists to clarify exactly what he likes about their work. Walt is like an extraordinarily disciplined mad scientist in the studio.Get Savvy! Sign up for exclusive show notes and episode guides: http://savvypainter.com

Carol Marine and Antrese Wood talk about daily painter Carol Marines journey from the gallery circuit to founding her own painters site. Carol started painting daily while her newborn napped and eventually found the short spurts of painting time was more liberating than constraining.Get Savvy! Sign up for exclusive show notes and episode guides: http://savvypainter.com

James Bland is an English figurative artist who lives and works in Kent. James and Antrese Wood talk about how he uses Facebook to connect with other artists; using memory as a source for painting; how James chooses models and his inventive studio set up. Plus a digression into the addictive quality of making art.Get Savvy! Sign up for exclusive show notes and episode guides: http://savvypainter.com

Join Antrese for this fascinating interview with artist Henry Isaacs. Henry talks extensively about color, and his methods. Henry’s landscapes are an exploration of color in which he plays with perspective, and constructs his own world from what he sees around him.He learned to twist horizon lines and think differently from a close friendship with a couple who survived Hiroshima. He pulls ideas and influence from sources outside of the western norm like the Kopanang Trust. A Cooperative of Women Artist/Embroiderers , near Johannesburg, S.A- who work in colorful threads and fabric, or traditional Rwandan art, which he immersed himself in on an extended trip there. But his biggest influence is the exuberant Ashley Bryan a fellow artist and neighbor. http://savvypainter.com/podcast/henry-isaacs

Carol Swinney is a plein air painter who works exclusively with the palette knife. She has won numerous awards for her landscape painting. Carol discusses her mentors, her approach and techniques of palette knife painting and her passion of painting en plein air. Carol and Antrese talk about women painters and their representation (or lack of) in the art world.Carol Swinney is a member of the California Art Club, the Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters, OPA, and is a Master Signature Member of American Woman Artists. http://savvypainter.com/podcast/carol-swinney

John Hull is a narrative painter, whose work depicts the everyday moments in American life.  This is part one of a multi-part conversation. John joins Antrese to discuss his early beginning as a sports reporter and his transition to painter and teacher.  John talks about creating paintings and relinquishing control to the viewer.  He also shares why patience and observation are key to strong work, and gives insights on his creative process. http://savvypainter.com/45

Part 2: David Shevlino talks about his diver series and how he chooses his subjects, plus a cautionary tale about maintaining your integrity as an artist after your work starts to sell and galleries start to pay attention to you. http://savvypainter.com/44

Figurative painter David Shevlino talks about why ateliers are making a come back, how the 2008 stock market crash pushed his oil painting to new levels, and what he learned by pushing out of his creative comfort zone. http://savvypainter.com/43

Jean Stern, Executive Director of the Irvine Museum of Art talks with Antrese Wood about his art collection, why he selects certain artists, his fascination with early California Impresionism, and the mistakes artists make when curating their own shows. http://savvypainter.com/42

How to prepare for plein-air landscape painting, challenges of reinventing herself after moving from London to Texas, and switching from art fairs to gallery representation are some of the topics Jill Carver and Antrese Wood cover in this episode. Jill Carver taught herself to paint poetically rather than as a journalist. She deftly contrasts abstract shapes with representational landscape design, subtle colors with bold vibrant hues. Jill describes her process and how she guided her career as an artist. http://savvypainter.com/41

How Mitchel Coffman raised over $12,650 using crowd funding for an art exhibit to honor his mentor, Jorge Alvarez. http://savvypainter.com/40 Mitchel talks about the genesis of his project 'Strength', how he Kickstarter taught him how the business side of art really works.

Nathan Fowkes has painted backgrounds for animation giants Dream Works, Disney, and other entertainment legends. His film credits include The Road to El Dorado, The Prince of Egypt, How to Train Your Dragon, The Legend of Puss in Boots and of course, Shrek. Learn how Nathan broke into the animation industry, the pros and cons of freelancing in the world of entertainment design. Plus hear the advice he got from Sue Lyon and Scott Burdick that changed the course of his career. http://savvypainter.com/38

Mitchell is convinced that there is an audience for your fine art, but its the artist's responsibility to find collectors. We talk about some of the maverick techniques he used to promote his paintings and get them in front of art collectors. If you are as obsessive about color theory as I am, this episode is for you. Mitchell Johnson talks about the role of color in his work and why it enables him to move seamlessly between abstraction and representation.  http://savvypainter.com/37