Episode 40 with Sari Shryack

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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.

Learn more about Sari Shryack here:

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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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