Ep. 44 with Jose Trujillo
Welcome to conversation with oil painter, Jose Trujillo!
In the conversation, you’ll learn the power of focusing your efforts on the painting discipline instead of the final painting product, how discomfort is part of the learning process and the advantages and disadvantages of experimentation.
Podcast Art Club:
Your bonus conversation is here. It’s a small one but it’s packed with some good stuff. We focus in on how Trujillo can and does paint up to 14 hours a day. And maybe that’s not how long you work each day, but there are some great lessons in there for painting MORE. Including how he approaches his references so that he can paint… everything.
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In the conversation we talk about:
Jose Trujillo show notes
1:24 How Jose Trujillo got started in art
1:44 Finding oil
2:21 How his self taught path looked
3:50 Finished paintings vs the pieces of painting
4:59 What were the challenging things to figure out
6:36 Looking at other artists
8:16 Taking art seriously and giving it priority
9:14 Making art first on a practical level
10:41 Keeping in the process-based mindset
12:54 Building the confidence to trust the process
14:08 The discipline of painting
17:00 Being comfortable in being uncomfortable
17:55 What oil paint allows Trujillo to do
20:40 Working alla prima
21:28 Remaining not precious
24:29 Brand of paint
25:19 Palette
26:08 Repeatable process
26:47 Experimentation
28:49 Painting new and different
30:33 Challenges of working thick
31:33 Trujillo’s process
34:05 Waiting for it to be easy
35:14 Stages of painting
37:15 Keeping the brain quiet
39:01 Teaching yourself to find the quiet
43:28 Looking at other artists
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