Ep.42 with Kellee Wynne Conrad
Welcome to conversation with mixed media artist Kellee Wynne Conrad!
In the conversation we talk about the challenges of not going back to your old self, the opportunities of limitations and Conrad walks us through her five principles of color. Plus a whole lot more.
Podcast Art Club:
Your bonus conversation is available now. We discuss burnout and the power of letting go of old work and those ideas never realized. It might make you think about your own space and materials differently. I know it did me.
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In the conversation we discuss:
1:12 How Kellee Wynne Conrad got started in art
3:05 Picking up the brush again
4:57 Challenges of mixed media
6:09 Bird’s eye view of process
8:15 Working in a series
8:59 Decisions Conrad makes before beginning
11:01 Limitations
11:47 Thinkin before brush hits canvas
13:27 Painting intuitively
14:57 Learning through finishing paintings
16:15 Repeatable steps in process
17:43 Deciding the next thing
19:42 Compositional thinking
21:10 Left brain to right brain switching
22:56 Thinking
24:26 Biggest challenge with color in students
25:39 Color foundations
28:45 Importance of mixing
30:05 strategy for mixing
32:10 5 Principles of color
39:31 Play
41:31 Color breakthroughs
44:21 Transparency and color mixing
46:07 Glazing
47:19 Advice on getting good at painting
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