Steve Griggs (Ep.59)
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In Ep. 59, I'm talking with watercolorist Steve Griggs. In the conversation you’ll discover the benefits of replicating your teachers and how to know when it’s time to move beyond their style, how to approach your primaries if you want bright colors and an incredibly powerful way to use sketchbooks in your art process.
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Extended Cut Bonus
In the Extended Cut Bonus, we dig deeper into loose painting and you’ll learn some of Griggs’ favorite ways of mixing watercolor paints on your paper. You can find all of that at patreon.com/learntopaintpodcast
You can also read the unedited (as in a robot made it and no human checked it) transcript here.
In the episode we discuss:
1:11 How Steve Griggs got started in art
1:36 Watercolor specifically
2:14 How style evolved to loose painting
3:36 Transitioning to looser work
5:59 Pursuing own voice
8:13 Watercolor pigments
10:38 Primary sets
11:22 Fresh paints vs cakes
12:57 Viscosity of paint
14:40 Granulation and transparency
15:48 Overview of process
17:28 References (Photos and Life)
20:27 What makes a good reference
23:07 Size contrast
23:54 The start of the process
25:22 Creating safe spaces
28:26 Sketchbooks and a freeing process
30:23 Why sketchbooks
33:27 Ready to start a painting
36:56 Building a painting
39:11 Wet into wet
40:45 Simplifying a complex scene
44:45 Thinking in sketchbooks
46:53 Advice for getting really good at painting
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