Ep.46 with Brienne M Brown

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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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