NEW: Ep. 25 with Julie Gilbert Pollard

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This week, I’m talking with Julie Gilbert Pollard. In the conversation you’ll learn Pollard's favorite way to make her paintings stronger, you’ll get clarity on warms and cools and discover a way to think through where you can improve as an artist.

Learn more about Pollard here:

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Pollard’s “4-step sketch” (click here to download) outlined and illustrated in the attached article.

In the interview, Pollard mentions two books:

Frank Webb’s “Strengthen Your Paintings With Dynamic Composition”

Greg Albert’s “The Simple Secret to Better Painting”

Learn to paint watercolor with Julie Gilbert Pollard

In the show we talk about:

:57 How Julie Gilbert Pollard got started in art

1:36 Taking painting seriously

1:59 Book writing an articles got started

3:09 Working through beginner’s frustrations of vision not matching what you produce

4:37 How watercolor is different than other media

5:36 References

7:08 Next after finding a reference

8:47 Working towards darks with acrylic underpinnings

9:34 Having washes move dried paint

10:49 Yupo

11:26 Basics of watercolor

15:29 Using this list to help you get better

17:51 Four step sketch- Finding your biggest shape

19:58 Four step sketch - steps 2-4

25:13 - light mid to dark

26:33 The magic of lowering our expectations

29:01 Bringing in techniques

31:05 Biggest color challenge

32:37 Mud

35:34 Where does someone start with color

38:26 Warm and cool

39:13 Having a color wheel with you

40:46 How does someone get stronger with color?

43:29 Not getting bright colors

44:12 How Julie Gilbert Pollard approaches color

44:57 Color harmony

45:26 Analyzing work that didn’t go well

46:24 The importance of critique

47:38 Good reference

48:55 Where does someone start with composition

50:49 Makin pathways

51:43 How does thinking about composition changes

52:26 The importance of simplifying things

53:39 How to get good at painting

55:34 How to analyze work after finishing a piece?

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