Ep.46 with Brienne M Brown
Welcome to the conversation with watercolorist, Brienne M Brown.
In the conversation, you’ll discover Brown’s pigment strategy, how to use opaques even if you are primarily a transparent painter and why sometimes the goal needs to be an ALMOST finished painting.
Podcast Art Club:
Your bonus conversation is here! In it, Brown talks composition and why you absolutely don’t need to be faithful to your reference photo.
Learn more about Brienne M Brown here:
WEBSITE / WORKSHOPS / INSTAGRAM / FACEBOOK
Recommended books by Brown:
"Mastering Composition" by Ian Roberts
"Picture This" by Molly Banks
Here is a link to the videos about framing without glass on my
For Brown’s videos on framing without glass and making her watercolor panels, head here.
In the episode we talk about:
0:09 How Brown got started in art
2:31 Making art a priority
3:56 Importance of making time
6:00 Learned skill of making time (for us and our families)
6:41 Watercolor pigments Brown uses
7:51 Mixing well
9:31 Pigment issues
10:58 How Brown uses opaques
12:54 Paper
13:25 What Brown likes about her paper
14:27 How she makes her watercolor boards
15:30 Process
18:23 How much drawing on paper
19:00 Thinking in her process
20:48 Making the obvious… obvious
22:21 Wet-on-dry vs wet-into-wet
24: 51 Managing paper with squirt bottle
25:33 Clean brush edge soften
26:31 Why is watercolor so hard?
27:10 Finding a good subject
29:25 Testing through thumbnails
30:39 Choices made before pigment work begins
31:59 Using a value study to decide colors
34:51 What is plein air painting?
35:02 Working from life
37:23 Setting expectations for starting out
41:14 Not finishing paintings
43:30 Pairing down materials
45:45 How to get really good at painting
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