Episode 40 with Sari Shryack
Welcome to the conversation with acrylic and oil painter Sari Shryack
In the conversation you’ll learn how to get started if you are low on time what’s important to ask yourself when it comes to finding your style and a few places you can really push color.
Podcast Art Club:
In your bonus conversation, we’ll dive even further into bright colors including how to approach your supporting characters so your color can really sing.
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In the show we talk about:
1:25 How Sari Shryack got started in art
2:29 Road to professional painting
3:37 How she found acrylics
4:56 The power of daily painting
6:21 How preciousness holds us back
7:16 Figuring out what Shryack wanted to paint
8:37 Working across many subjects
9:36 Giving herself permission to be playful
10:39 How important is it for artists to know what they like and don’t like?
11:31 How does someone find their style
13:13 How her self evaluation evolved
14:31 Making space
15:26 Do you need formal training to be an artist
16:23 Art as learnable skills
17:30 Shryack’s medium and why
18:04 Why acrylics are good for learning to paint
19:06 Fixing mistakes
20:09 What kind of acrylics Shryack uses
20:30 Palette
21:24 Bright palette colors
22:00 Walking us through Shryack’s process
23:54 Always looking for reference
25:27 Lowering the bar
26:17 Working from her own photos
27:30 Compositional thinking during photography
28:09 What Shryack paints on
29:00 Getting the reference onto the painting board
30:03 Bringing up whole painting or individual sections
31:19 Bracketing values
32:26 Building up values and chroma
34:34 Thinking as being playful
35:43 Repeatable steps
36:44 Biggest challenge students face when it comes with color
38:22 Importance of learning to mix own colors
39:36 Vibrant color happening in palette or in relationships
41:18 Bringing knowledge to color
42:22 Working backwards and forwards
43:49 When looking at a reference, how do you think through value and saturation
46:23 How to get really good at painting
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