Car Rose joins Kim to chat about art journalling, as well as writing, quilting, and other creative endeavours.

Car’s Blog:

https://carorose.typepad.com

IG: carrosecreative

Ministry of Crafty Shenanigans podcast

http://ministryofcraftyshenanigans.com

Diana Briscoe talks about cold wax painting and experimenting with many different art supplies.

https://www.instagram.com/dianabriscoeart/

Ida Henrich is an illustrator, mural artist, and designer. Ida talks about painting outdoor murals in local communities, as well as commissioned illustrations.

idahenrich.com

In this brand new format Kim chats with people in the posse about their favourite three art supplies. First guests are Kageyama and Enon Avital.

Enon is a previous guest. He was on episode 72 in 2019. You can find his handmade notebooks at Dapper Notes.

Rachel chats about her eclectic crafting interests, the joy in being able to craft any time, and 15 years of blogging about crafting.

https://thebarefootcrafter.com

Ida Henrich and Julia van der Wyk return to chat about their top three favourite art supplies.

http://idahenrich.com/

https://juliavanderwyk.com/

Catherine Monahon talks with Kim about the tactile properties of clay and other art materials. Catherine has her own podcast dedicated to art materials called Material Feels.

Mary D'Rozario was fed up of being confined to her home due to illness and exchanged her house for an RV (recreational vehicle). Her art supplies take up a significant amount of space in her RV. Mary now creates art while travelling. She has written a book titled "The Airstream that Ran Away with the Spoon".

Mary is on Instagram as @loafingcactus

Mary Doodles returns to share her favourite art supplies. Savannah Tallbear gives a brief chat of her favourites before her upcoming full interview.

You can find Mary on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/user/marydoodles

You can find Savannah on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/bearswillkillu/

Kika went on a creative journey from dance school to teaching photography and knitting full-time on YouTube.

Chantal Wilson creates miniatures inspired by the Harry Potter stories.

Chantal has several YouTube channels and is also on Instagram under the following handles.

YouTube channels:

Ravens Minis

Raven Compendium

Dolls Unboxed

Instagram:

@ravensminis

@ravencompendium

Neale James, a man of many names, has been a wedding photographer for 20 years. But at heart, his imagery is that of a documentary photographer. Before becoming a professional photographer, Neale was a professional radio broadcaster. Neale is also host of the Photowalk podcast, and co-host of the Fujicast podcast.

https://www.nealejames.com

https://photowalk.show

Terran’s YouTube channel:

https://youtube.com/@ConjuredCraft

Terran is conjuredcraft on many social media sites.

The Incognito Art Show is a unique annual art show that is open to all artists. Incognito means that artists names are kept secret until after their artwork has been sold. This means that the majority of people purchase art based on what they like rather than the name and reputation of the artist. All profits are donated to organisations helping artists with disabilities, and all artworks are priced at $100 Australian Dollars (about $66 US Dollars, €61 Euros, £52 British Pounds, respectively, in May 2024).

https://www.incognitoartshow.com

Bri de Danann is a comic book artist and illustrator. Bri also gives us an introduction to live streaming as an artist using the twitch platform.

Bri's website:

https://www.bridedanann.com

Mixed media artist Kylie O Grady chats about not having a fixed process and letting yourself be guided by constraints and "happy accidents", as Bob Ross would say.

https://www.instagram.com/kylieogradyart

Note: this episode contains adult language.

Kim chats with three other artists about art journalling. Previous guests are Kylie O'Grady, Uncle Frogface, and first time guest Car Rose.

Sarah De Jonge talks about her project 1000 Hearts. Sarah began creating pocket-sized hearts made of wool felt and sending them to strangers as an act of kindness. The project is now global, and has people all over the world creating the hearts out of various materials, using many different techniques.

https://www.1000hearts.com.au/about/about-sarah

Elishia Jackson creates fibre art using basket weaving techniques.

Find Elishia on Instagram at @elishia.jacksonart

https://www.instagram.com/elishia.jacksonart/

A talk about earning an independent income as an artist, and following inspiration. Mary is an artist, creator, adventurer, and all-round curious person. She is currently inspired by attention, reactions, noise, visuals, emotional things and getting out of her own way.

June 2021 is the 10 year anniversary of her YouTube channel. Mary's "Sip n Sketch" live streams on YouTube are a way for her to connect with Doodle Bugs (her name for her fans), to have fun and be loose when creating. They remind Mary of when she was in high school, drawing on her friends arms, and other places :)

Quote:

It's easy to get too caught up on what the end product will be and whether it's good or bad and honestly my philosophy as an artist is it's none of your business as to whether it's good or bad, like you don't get to choose. All you're responsible for is deciding "Is this ready to be released"? “Do I put this out there?”, or do I say “it's done”?

Mary can be found at marydoodles.com

She’s Mary doodles on Instagram, YouTube, and doodlesmary on tictok 

Gina Marie Cincinnati returns to chat about her experiences being selected to exhibit her art at the XIV Florence Biennale, and what's involved in shipping artworks internationally. To understand why "carnets" exist in the art world, check out the short podcast series "The Professor".

https://brazen.fm/the-professor/

https://ginamariecincinnati.com

Anna (@alchemist_anna) chats with Kim about struggling to accept the creation of art as something truly worthwhile.

Sean Southerland-Kirby aka Uncle Frogface returns to chat with Kim about the past year and artsy things they both want to do in 2025.

Karia talks about fabric art. Spinning yarn herself, crocheting, and becoming aware of all the interesting things in the place you live. Karia’s YouTube channel is about drawing, colouring, and painting art supplies.

@CraftingKaria on YouTube and Instagram

A little news, a little follow-up, and our last colored pencil segment, the weirdos, the misfits, and the ones that defy category.

Jaclyn Gordyan returns to chat about the experience of preparing artworks for exhibition, the art show itself, dealing with the time after the exhibition, and transitioning to the next project, which may be in a different medium.

Julia van der Wyk was already on the podcast in episode 86. Julia returns to talk about transitioning from oil paint to acrylics, gouache, and ink. Julia will be teaching an ink painting course at the San Francisco pen show on August 28 2022, and plans to make the course available online in the future. More info at Julia's website.

https://juliavanderwyk.com

Gianna Tesone is an athlete as well as an artist. She incorporates that physicality into her painting practice. Gianna talks about how her interest in the natural sciences and general curiosity all flow into her art.

Hava Gurevich returns to assemble a $30 art kit with acrylic paints, paper and brushes.

Visit Hava’s Website and Shop

https://www.havagurevichart.com/

Denise Smith talks about how creating art calms her mind, and finding her way to art later in life.

Jacq Hancock is a watercolourist and illustrator. Jacq talks about her fantastical watercolour paintings of animals and nature.

http://thearborwytch.com

Hannah Austin tells how a move to Oregon inspired her art of creating landscapes with embroidery techniques. Hannah runs an online store. She talks about what its like to run that full time, deal with social media marketing, and care for her family.

Hannah also creates embroidery kits available in her shop. You will find her everywhere under the name "needle or thread".

http://needleorthread.com/

Sean Southerland, a.k.a. Uncle Frogface, is creative across a wide variety of art forms. Sean chats about the difference between creativity and productivity, and how art helped him overcome a debilitating illness.

Find Sean everywhere online under his moniker Uncle Frogface.

Kim continues her series on how to art journal. This time looking at art supplies and what to put in the journal.

http://artsupplyposse.com

Kim answers a listener question about how to get started with art journalling. She explains what an art journal is, some pre-made notebooks and journals you can use, as well as alternatives and materials you probably already have.

Tina Koyama has been an urban sketcher for about 10 years.

tinakoyama.com

@miatagrrl on Instagram

Her career was in writing; she’d always been creative but had never drawn. She heard about urban sketching, gave it a try & realised that it resonates with her. 

For Tina, urban sketching is very personal. She’s documenting the things she sees every day, creating a visual record of her life. 

Tina believe urban sketching has a superpower. When she sketches, her memory becomes embedded with the sites, sounds, smells , light etc that was there in the moments she was sketching. When she looks at past work, she is reminded of all of that. She doesn’t get that from any other medium. 

Currently Tina’s sketch kit contains about 20 coloured pencils, a water brush, a soft graphite pencil, a uni pen marker with a brush nib & a Stillman & Birn Beta sketchbook. 

To newcomers to urban sketching, Tina says ‘start with whatever you’re comfortable with, with whatever you have. If it works for you (a particular art supply or medium), just use it.’ 

‘Do it regularly. If not daily, then regularly, so the practice is reinforced.’

Usha Shukla talks about studying art as a mature student, becoming a professional artist, growing up in India and moving to California. Visit Usha's website to see her art.

https://www.ushashuklaart.com/

Mia Amphlett chats about the charms of instant photography. You can find Mia's photos on Instagram at:

https://www.instagram.com/mia_amphlett

Gina-Marie Cincinnati returns to talk about exhibiting your art.

https://ginamariecincinnati.com

A panel of previous guests and one new guest look back over the past two years to discuss how the pandemic and other changes have influenced their art and lives as artists.

Mike Hawthorne chats about teaching art and art supplies.

Mike is a comic book artist and graphic novelist mostly known for his Marvel comics of Spider-Man, Superman and Deadpool.

Mike's graphic novel Happiness Will Follow:

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Happiness-Will-Follow/Mike-Hawthorne/9781684155453

Mike’s gumroad store

https://gumroad.com/mikehawthorne?sort=newest

 Quotes:

"Forgive yourself"

"Focus on getting better at drawing one specific thing, instead of everything"

"Look for incremental progress in your art. Be fair to yourself"

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The Brief & Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao is a book that inspired Mike’s friend to tell him he needs to write his memoir

https://www.amazon.com.au/Brief-Wondrous-Life-Oscar-Wao/dp/0571239730/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3EU9CJRM908I9&keywords=the+brief+and+wonderous+life+of+oscar+wao&qid=1611644262&sprefix=the+brief+and%2Caps%2C331&sr=8-2

Artistic Anatomy

https://www.amazon.com.au/Artistic-Anatomy-Paul-Richer/dp/0823002977/ref=sr_1_1?crid=UKDIHWESHBCY&dchild=1&keywords=artistic+anatomy+by+dr.+paul+richer&qid=1611644443&sprefix=artistic+ana%2Caps%2C338&sr=8-1

How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way

https://www.amazon.com.au/How-Draw-Comics-Marvel-Way/dp/0671530771/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1X5UZSIRH5GIU&dchild=1&keywords=drawing+the+marvel+way&qid=1611644498&sprefix=drawing+the+marve%2Caps%2C327&sr=8-1

Understanding Comics 

https://www.amazon.com.au/Understanding-Comics-Invisible-Scott-McCloud/dp/006097625X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=understanding+comics&qid=1611644558&sr=8-1

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 Art Supplies

Strathmore paper

https://www.strathmoreartist.com/home.html

Stillman & Birn

https://stillmanandbirn.com

Mike Hawthorne talks about his graphic novel memoir Happiness Will Follow. This is a three-part series.

Mike is a comic book artist and graphic novelist mostly known for his Marvel comics of Spider-Man, Superman and Deadpool.

Mike's graphic novel Happiness Will Follow:

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Happiness-Will-Follow/Mike-Hawthorne/9781684155453

Mike’s gumroad store

https://gumroad.com/mikehawthorne?sort=newest

Quotes:

"Forgive yourself"

"Focus on getting better at drawing one specific thing, instead of everything"

"Look for incremental progress in your art. Be fair to yourself"

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The Brief & Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao is a book that inspired Mike’s friend to tell him he needs to write his memoir

https://www.amazon.com.au/Brief-Wondrous-Life-Oscar-Wao/dp/0571239730/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3EU9CJRM908I9&keywords=the+brief+and+wonderous+life+of+oscar+wao&qid=1611644262&sprefix=the+brief+and%2Caps%2C331&sr=8-2

Artistic Anatomy

https://www.amazon.com.au/Artistic-Anatomy-Paul-Richer/dp/0823002977/ref=sr_1_1?crid=UKDIHWESHBCY&dchild=1&keywords=artistic+anatomy+by+dr.+paul+richer&qid=1611644443&sprefix=artistic+ana%2Caps%2C338&sr=8-1

How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way

https://www.amazon.com.au/How-Draw-Comics-Marvel-Way/dp/0671530771/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1X5UZSIRH5GIU&dchild=1&keywords=drawing+the+marvel+way&qid=1611644498&sprefix=drawing+the+marve%2Caps%2C327&sr=8-1

Understanding Comics

https://www.amazon.com.au/Understanding-Comics-Invisible-Scott-McCloud/dp/006097625X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=understanding+comics&qid=1611644558&sr=8-1

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Art Supplies

Strathmore paper

https://www.strathmoreartist.com/home.html

Stillman & Birn

https://stillmanandbirn.com

Mike Hawthorne returns to Art Supply Posse. This is a three-part series. This first part is a chat about creating art and how Mike discovered his talent. Mike has written his first autobiographical graphic novel which he talks about in depth in the second part of this series.

Mike is a comic book artist and graphic novelist mostly known for his Marvel comics of Spider-Man, Superman and Deadpool.

Mike’s gumroad store

https://gumroad.com/mikehawthorne?sort=newest

Quotes:

"Forgive yourself"

"Focus on getting better at drawing one specific thing, instead of everything"

"Look for incremental progress in your art. Be fair to yourself"

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The Brief & Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao is a book that inspired Mike’s friend to tell him he needs to write his memoir

https://www.amazon.com.au/Brief-Wondrous-Life-Oscar-Wao/dp/0571239730/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3EU9CJRM908I9&keywords=the+brief+and+wonderous+life+of+oscar+wao&qid=1611644262&sprefix=the+brief+and%2Caps%2C331&sr=8-2

Artistic Anatomy

https://www.amazon.com.au/Artistic-Anatomy-Paul-Richer/dp/0823002977/ref=sr_1_1?crid=UKDIHWESHBCY&dchild=1&keywords=artistic+anatomy+by+dr.+paul+richer&qid=1611644443&sprefix=artistic+ana%2Caps%2C338&sr=8-1

How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way

https://www.amazon.com.au/How-Draw-Comics-Marvel-Way/dp/0671530771/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1X5UZSIRH5GIU&dchild=1&keywords=drawing+the+marvel+way&qid=1611644498&sprefix=drawing+the+marve%2Caps%2C327&sr=8-1

Understanding Comics

https://www.amazon.com.au/Understanding-Comics-Invisible-Scott-McCloud/dp/006097625X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=understanding+comics&qid=1611644558&sr=8-1

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Art Supplies

Strathmore paper

https://www.strathmoreartist.com/home.html

Stillman & Birn

https://stillmanandbirn.com

Kim and Alan talk about using oil pastels

Oil pastels Wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_pastel

Mungyo Gallery oil pastels  72 box set https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B004WQHYWK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Cray-Pas oil pastels https://www.sakuraofamerica.com/product/cray-pas-specialist/

Sennelier oil pastels

http://www.sennelier-colors.com/en/Pastels-huile_88.html

Creative Mark Blending Stumps

https://www.jerrysartarama.com/blending-stumps

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/c/OhuSia

https://www.youtube.com/c/BlackBeanCMS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXeZR1fqYvU

Paper

Canson oil pastel paper

https://www.amazon.com.au/Mi-Teintes-Pastel-Assorted-Colors-Fold/dp/B0024KO2RG/ref=asc_df_B0024KO2RG/?tag=bingshopdesk-22&linkCode=df0&hvadid=&hvpos=&hvnetw=s&hvrand=&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=e&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4583726549415922&psc=1

SoHo Open Bound Sketch Pads (Great Value)

https://www.jerrysartarama.com/soho-open-bound-sketch-pads

The Paper House Toulouse drawing paper pad

https://www.eckersleys.com.au/the-paper-house-toulouse-drawing-pads

Books I found useful

Oil Pastel for the Serious Beginner: Basic Lessons in Becoming a Good Painter

https://www.amazon.com/Oil-Pastel-Serious-Beginner-Becoming/dp/1626548994

All About Techniques in Pastel (All About Techniques Art Series)

https://www.amazon.com/All-About-Techniques-Pastel-Art/dp/0764151053

Alan Trautman and Kim reflect on their art practice over the past year, highlighting the good bits.
Art Supply Posse is produced by Marcus Clearspring and Kim Cofield.

Jane Mills, aka Ivory Ocean, returns to Art Supply Posse to discuss drawing yourself as a cartoon character. Why? Because your character can do things you can't. Ivory's character Spacegirl can travel into space, until she can herself. Another, down to earth reason, is to process the struggles of daily life in comic form.

Ivory's Art, Comics, Zines Website

Ivory's Instagram

Ivory's Links

​Support Art Supply Posse and get bonus episodes

Art Supply Posse Website

Ramona MacLean is a freelance illustrator who creates colourful illustrations and comics with fun characters.

Sponsored by The Well Appointed Desk

http://wellappointeddesk.com

Support Art Supply Posse and get bonus episodes https://www.patreon.com/artsupplyposse

Ramona has several Skillshare classes: https://www.skillshare.com/classes/How-To-Get-INSPIRED-Creatively/672969942?category=creative

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/freckledpage/

Website: https://www.freckledfoxdesigns.com

WEBTOON: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/freckles-the-foxicorn/list?title_no=506568

All Ramona’s links:

https://linktr.ee/freckledpage

Murdoch is a jewellery artist.

http://www.murdochsmethod.com/

Instagram is updated more often.

http://www.instagram.com/murdochs.method

 Special Thanks to Justin for repairing our guest’s audio for this episode. 

Connie Vartianen is an artist and school teacher who creates hand made shimmer paints.

Website:

https://shimmerdropspaint.com/

Sponsored by The Well Appointed Desk

Support Art Supply Posse and get bonus episodes

https://www.patreon.com/artsupplyposse

It's the Art Supply Posse 100th episode celebration 🍾 🎉

Podcast founder and original co-host Ana Reinert returns to chat about the podcast, what she is doing, and to turn the table and interview Kim.

Fude nibs are a very special art supply. They are used for drawing due to their line variation. Fude nibs were created in Asia to mimic the traditional calligraphy brush. Fude means brush in Japanese. There are two types. Fountain pen made of metal, and soft synthetic tips similar to felt usually referred to as brush pens. Kim and Alan talk about three affordable Fude pens of the fountain pen variety made by Sailor.

The Well Appointed Desk, sponsor of Art Supply Posse, published a review of these pens in 2016.

https://www.wellappointeddesk.com/2016/05/pen-review-sailor-fude-de-mannen-fountain-pens/

To learn more about the other kind of fude pen, a.k.a. brush pens, listen to episode 5 of Art Supply Posse "A Brush(Pen) with Greatness".

https://artsupplyposse.com/episodes/5

Mike Hawthorne’s graphic novel "Happiness Will Follow" is available in hardcover from your favourite independent comic shops and bookshops. Digitally, you can get it for Amazon Kindle, and also ComiXology (belongs to Amazon).

Mike talked to Art Supply Posse in episode 27: Explicitly Mike Hawthorne

https://artsupplyposse.com/episodes/27

Support Art Supply Posse and get bonus episodes

https://www.patreon.com/artsupplyposse

Teresa Hummel talks about her experiences taking art classes. Teresa compares them to her current enrolment in the Evolve courses offered by previous Art Supply Posse guest Kevin Murphy.

You might also want to listen to episode 71: Art Education with Kevin Murphy

https://artsupplyposse.simplecast.com/episodes/71

Hannah Charlton talks about drawing pet portraits and wildlife art with pastel pencils.

Support Art Supply Posse and get bonus episodes

hannahcharltonart.com

@hannahcharltonart on instagram / Facebook

Recommends Clairfontaine pastel mat paper

https://www.clairefontaine.com/subcategory-en-035084-pastelmat.html

Derwent Pastel pencils

https://www.derwentart.com/en-gb/c/professional-products/colouring/pastel-pencils

Stabilo Pastel Pencils

https://www.stabilo.com/com/products/coloring-drawing/colored-pencils/stabilo-carbothello/

Unison Soft Pastels

https://www.unisoncolour.com

Faber-Castell Pitt Pastel Pencil

https://www.fabercastell.com/collections/pitt-pastel-pencils

Pastels require you to be patient. You need to get many layers down to create depth

Yes, there is amazing art created only with a humble ballpoint pen. Chris from Scrawlrbox returns to talk about how crosshatching, line variation, and applying water, can be used to create art with ballpoint pens. This episode is part of our series on using art supplies that you most likely already have at home.

Chris website: https://scrawlrbox.uk/

Sponsored by The Well Appointed Desk

Sherlock Holmes notebooks by Art Supply Posse: https://wellappointeddesk.bigcartel.com/product/art-supply-posse-pocket-notebooks-set-of-3

Support Art Supply Posse and get bonus episodes

https://www.patreon.com/artsupplyposse

Making Art With Paint Markers - featuring Alan Trautman

Alan's Instagram: @miathet13

Below is the list of paint markers that Alan owns, with US based links.
 

Our first interview with a maker of inks. Kiwi inks is named after founder Kapui’s mentor from New Zealand, who instructed him in ink making.

Discount of 15% for listeners with code: ARTSUPPLYPOSSE

https://www.kiwiinks.com

Sponsored by The Well Appointed Desk

Sherlock Holmes notebooks by Art Supply Posse: https://wellappointeddesk.bigcartel.com/product/art-supply-posse-pocket-notebooks-set-of-3

Art using graphite pencils with guest host Chris Lambert of Scrawlrbox. Kim and Chris discuss the advantages of using graphite pencils to create art.

Art Supply Posse is sponsored by The Well-Appointed Desk.

Art supplies mentioned:

Staedtler Norris pencil, aka "the school pencil" (yellow and black)

Derwent sketching pencils

Faber-Castell pencils

Palomino Blackwing pencils

Tombow Mono 100 pencils

Musgrave pencils

For more on pencils, check out the "Erasable" podcast, and the "Wood & Graphite"  YouTube channel.

Origami with Brendan Plumb - @foldymcfoldface

Sponsored by wellappointeddesk.com

Sherlock Holmes notebooks by Art Supply Posse: https://wellappointeddesk.bigcartel.com/product/art-supply-posse-pocket-notebooks-set-of-3

Brendan first tried origami as a pre-teen, using an origami book belonging to his brother. His signature models are dragons, small flowers, and figures.

Art supplies:

Brendan recommends tissue foil paper, matt on one side, shiny on the other.

Takeaways:

⁃ Don’t worry about the end result

⁃ Avoid thinking you can’t do it

⁃ Always try harder things, so you don’t become afraid

⁃ Good light is important

Recommended tutorials:

Robert Lang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ4hDppP_SQ

3 minute butterfly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZdO2e8K29o

Elephant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6822yu8CRg&t=438s

Dragon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CmCKm20t5A

Brie of Documented Journey

Brie grew up surrounded by art. Her mother had an art degree, and her father was an architect. Brie’s journals feature botanicals and nature. Her journals are chronological.

“Anything goes” when it comes to what she journals.

If you’re new to art journalling, Brie suggests asking yourself what you’d like to get from your journal. “All that matters is if you like it”.

“You can’t compare yourself to someone who’s been doing it all their life” (in reference to feeling unsure of ones self when it comes to art)

Art Supplies

Brie primarily uses watercolour. Favourite is Schminke, but Daniel Smith are easier to find in the US.

Tomoe River

Strathmore mixed media paper

Escada travel brushes

Prado and ultimo, size 4

Sekura waterbrush

Also likes using a Ballograph ballpoint pen

Jim Richards is an urban sketcher and art teacher. Jim has travelled the world working on urban planning projects for large cities. Visit Jim’s website to learn about his book and classes.

jamesrichardsketchbook.com

Jim uses Daniel Smith watercolours, but says “Start simple. Use supplies that won’t intimidate you”.

He prefers fude nib fountain pens particularly those by Sailor. The Sailor bamboo pen, Platinum Carbon Black ink, and DeAtramentis waterproof ink. Moleskine A4 sketchbooks for the smooth paper.

“Don’t aspire to be to be great, aspire to be prolific. Great will come over time”.

Kristine Von Hilderbrandt is a costume designer, fashion historian, pattern maker, seamstress, and florist.

At University Kristine studied fashion history and fell in love with the make-believe of costumes. Her favourite fabrics to work with are cotton sateen and velveteen.

Recommended website: spoonflower.com, a place to print your designs on fabric or to purchase items designed by others.

“Share your knowledge with as many people as possible”

@scarlett.menagerie on Instagram and Facebook

If you want some motivation to start drawing, or creating anything, listen to this very inspiring chat with artist AntonioMabs.

AntonioMabs is a freelance artist working in illustration, graphic design, character design, cartooning, and animation.

Most work is created digitally, using a Cintiq tablet. Adobe Photoshop and Flash. Cricut machine for creating stickers.

Art supplies: When sketching he uses a Bic pen or No. 2 pencil, on copy paper. Carries with him a small sketchbook that he’s made himself- available for sale on his website.

Some takeaways:
“Start by putting your ideas down”

“Fail fast. Fail often. Every drawing gets you closer to finding your style”

“Get comfortable with failing. Understand it’s part of the process”

“Try to experiment within the fields of your medium” This allows you to understand it more, even if you don’t necessarily end up doing that work.

“Every day you give to your art, you’ve added energy to it and it grows”

Website: Mabsarts.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/antoniomabs/

Book recommendation: The Principles of Animation

Artist mentioned: mcbess.com

Isaac Gorden goes through his impressive stash of unused art supplies. Handmade Japanese watercolours, Parisian pastels, and rare pencils. Along the way, Isaac and Kim discuss being too precious with art supplies, and the fear of “failure” — however you want to define that personally.

Isaac’s Instagram @dirgesinthedark

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Art Supplies Mentioned

Eberhard Faber Blackwing Pencil

IBM Electrographic Pencil

General’s Test Scoring 580 Pencil

CW Pencils Futura Pencil

General’s Golden Bear Pencil

Mitsubishi Kohitsu Shosha Pencil

Conte a Paris Sanguine Sticks

Gekkoso watercolor paints

Eagle Verithin Pencils

Mephisto Copying Pencils

Eberhard Faber Noblot Copying Pencils

“Postal” colored pencils

Greenleaf & Blueberry watercolors( @greenleafblueberry )

Sennelier Watercolor paints

Conte a Paris hard pastels

@nancychiu Noblot Art on IG

Julia van der Wyk likes her paintings to evoke a sense of place. She is an artist, musician, and classically trained singer. A print maker, painter, and letterer.

Each of her art practises are like entering a different universe.

Julia’s chronic illness caused her to change her art practice which lead to discovering the wonderful world of fountain pens and inks and its community.

Frequently used art supplies:

Diamine green black ink.

Platinum Carbon desk pen and ink.

Strathmore mixed media paper series 300. Great for pen and ink, as well as pencils.

Cold press paper for water colours.

Rice paper for wood block printing and ink &

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Jessica Panzarino, aka Art by Panza, chats about her watercolour paintings.

https://www.artbypanza.com/

http://instagram.com/artbypanza

Jessica’s Skillshare class shows how to create her milky way paintings.

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Chris Lambert was a designer for a small furniture company. The idea for ScrawlrBox was formed after Chris attended a marketing course. ScrawlrBox launched after a successful crowd funding campaign.

Each box features an artist, and a print of their work. The print provides inspiration and a starting point to create something with the supplies. It is also an opportunity to let people know about the artist.

A community has grown around the boxes. People share their art, provide feedback to each other, and become friends.

This episode is NOT sponsored by ScrawlrBox, or any other party. Art Supply Posse does not currently accept sponsors, or other forms of advertising. Please support Art Supply Posse on Patreon.

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https://scrawlrbox.uk/

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Shirley Peters is a multi-skilled artist who is internationally known for painting cyclists during Le Tour de France. She also paints landscapes, urban scenes and figurative works. She has won awards consistently throughout her career, which began at the National Art School in the seventies. Her career spans graphic design, children’s book illustration, and computer graphics. Her fine art painting is now a full time passion, and her teaching skills are sought after by many art societies and organisations.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/sannpet

Website: http://www.shirleypeters.com

Facebook Business Page: http://www.facebook.com/shirleypetersart

Facebook personal: http://www.facebook.com/shirleypeters100

Twitter: @shirleypeters

Art Studio: 185 Park River Close Mulgoa NSW 2745, Australia

Kirby Plessas is an artist and cyber investigator. Kirby talks with Kim about her paint pouring art, and the importance of having your own domain name and website as an artist.

Kirby’s art supplies:

Stonecoat Countertops resin

Golden acrylic paints

Artists' Loft acrylic paint.

Posca, Montana and Molotow paint pens.

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Rachel Greig

Travel and Art Journaling with Rachel Greig

Rachel Greig started her career as a travel photographer. She soon began pasting ephemera from her travels into scrapbooks, which led her to mixed-media journaling. Today, Rachel teaches art and travel journaling for various TV and publishing outlets.

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[Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/rachelgreig/)

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Sarah Nelson creates artistic embroidery containing swear words. Sarah talks about her reasons and people's reactions.

[Mags Modern Embroidery](http://magsmodernembroidery.com/)

[Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/MagsModernEmbroidery)

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Kim took part in a sumi-e ink painting workshop and interviewed the founder of Kami Paper in Melbourne, Australia. Kami specialise in handmade papers. They stock over 1,000 different papers, mainly from Asia and Europe.

Kami also hold workshops taught by artists on topics such as origami, sumi-e painting, and other paper related arts and crafts. Kami also bind their own journals by hand with papers you can custom select. You can also learn how to make the albums and journals yourself. Around 700 of their papers are available from their online shop.

Kami Paper Website

Kami Paper Instagram

Kami Paper Facebook

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Noah Scalin is an artist best known for his Skull-A-Day project which continues the tradition of memento mori in art. Julia Skott returns as guest host of Art Supply Posse to interview Noah Scalin about his socially conscious art.

Images of Noah's artworks are embedded inside this podcast file. You can view the images as chapters inside the Apple Podcasts, Overcast, and Pocket Casts apps on Android and iOS.

Noah Scalin's website

Noah's podcast is where he interviews other full-time artists about their process.

Julia Skott co-hosts the makedo podcast with Tiff Arment where they talk about their range of mixed emotions as artists and creative people.

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What has been the role of the artist in history? Corrie of The Art History Babes discusses some of the roles artists have played, and how their art has influenced society.

You can find The Art History Babes podcast in your player of choice, or on the web.

Art History Babes Links

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Instagram

Youtube

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Art Supply Posse is starting a new series where anyone can talk about their favourite or unused art supplies. Please contact us if you would like to be on the podcast and talk about your own favourites or unpack supplies that have been lingering unused on a shelf.

Alan Trautman is the first person to step forward and to go through his old toolbox containing mainly unused art supplies. Alan rummages through his old tool box containing unused art supplies. He discusses those supplies and the kind of art he makes.

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Sara Schroeder talks about creating abstract art, teaching art, and her "Old Book Revival Project" which encourages people to create artwork in old books that are no longer being read.

Although abstract, you will recognise elements of the Art Deco style typical to Miami, where Sara lives.

Sara talks about getting over your fears of creating art by not taking it too seriously in the beginning and just making marks.

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Nick Stewart returns to discuss his course on using fountain pen ink as a unique art medium. Nick's project pushes the boundaries in which fountain pen ink is used in art. Away from a pure sketching ink, to an art medium akin to paint, with unique properties such as shading, sheening and reaction to bleach.

Nick first talked about this project on episode 51 of Art Supply Posse. Since then, Nick has released a course on Udemy where he teaches his techniques for creating art using the unique properties of fountain pen inks and bleach.

Free videos on YouTube introducing Nick's fountain pen ink art course

Nick Stewart Ink Art - An Introduction

Tutorial 6 - Fountain Pen Ink Art - Landscape Two.

Tutorial 12 - Fountain Pen Ink Art - Bleach, Blending and Metals

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Mokshini's style is influenced by fashion illustration where she began her career. However, she frequently contradicts traditional fashion norms by painting women of all shapes and sizes in relatable, and often whimsical, every day situations.

Mokshini does everything from painting to fabric design and live drawing. She uses a wide range of media including watercolour and acrylics, but also has a penchant for gouache.
Her art is primarily analogue. It has a very painterly feel, visible in the heavy textures of the paper, canvas, and brushstrokes.

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Mokshini's Website

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Enon Avital of Dapper Notes talks in detail about making things by hand, using his own unique pocket notebook business Dapper Notes as an example. This side business he runs is more than making paper notebooks, it is a form of "process art" itself. To fully understand that, watch the Dapper Notes process videos and listen to Enon's explanation in the episode.

Enon emphasises how important the process is when we make things. It's not sustainable to be feeding social media algorithms through likes and follower counts. It's only when you can enjoy the process of making things that you can continue over time.

Enon's website

Dapper Notes website

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Kevin Murphy has created artwork for Game of Thrones, the Rolling Stones, and hundreds of book covers; specializing in science fiction and fantasy. Today, Kevin challenges how art is taught – or not taught?

Kevin's art courses can be found at

http://evolveartist.com

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Jane Mills creates space art, zines, comics and plays music in several bands.

Jane talks about her space art, the Indianapolis Zine Fest, and live streaming on twitch.

Art supplies mentioned:

Ohto Graphic Liner Needle Point Drawing Pens

Indianapolis Zine Fest

Jane Mills Art, Comics, Zines Website

Jane's Instagram

Jane's Links

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Holly St Claire is a freelance illustrator known for her whimsical drawings. Holly tells us how she realised that she needed art in her life and how she could earn a living from illustration. There are a range of topics in this chat. From art and mental health, the serious stuff behind the whimsy, being a tourist attraction in a department store window, and of course Holly's favourite art supplies.

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Gosia Orlinska chats about her work as an art therapist working with children, living together with another creative person, and good art supplies that are affordable.

Art supplies discussed

Arteza gouache US site

Arteza gouache UK site

Also, Arteza markers/brush pens and other supplies

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Enjoy a lively chat with professional illustrator Chris Rowland. Everything from favourite pencils to dealing with family life and clients as a freelance graphic artist.

Chris works mainly in pen and ink, beginning analogue then digitising. He also does purely digital artwork.

Art Supplies Mentioned:

Kuretake Fudegokochi Brush Pen

Kuretake Disposable Pocket Brush Pen, Extra Fine

Pentel mechanical pencil

Staedtler chunky pencil

Favourite pencil grade: F

Pentel pocket brush pen

Daler Rowney Graduate sketchbooks

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Chris Rowland's partner Gosia Orlinska is an art therapist working with children. We have also interviewed Gosia for Art Supply Posse.

Chris' Website

Chris on Instagram

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Candace Milner creates "meditative doodles". Colourful, repetitive patterns that anyone can create. Drawing them relaxes your mind because of their manual, repetitive nature. It's not only relaxing. The result looks good too.

You can use any writing instrument, analogue or digital. Candace loves fountain pens and inks. Her patterns have previously been used on pen cases by Rickshaw Bags.

Art supplies mentioned:

Tomoe River paper FP (52 gsm) (particularly for fountain pens use, hence "FP")

Platinum carbon black ink

Sakura poster powder

You can find Candace's work on Instagram under @pensivecandy

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Learn about using alcohol-based inks on Yupo paper with Katy Smeets.

Katy uses inks to create abstract patterns. She uses these as textures for digital art, such as her animal series. No two patterns are the same.

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Art supplies mentioned by Katy

• Piñata alcohol inks by Jaquard

• Copic refill inks

• Yupo "paper". Yupo is synthetic, non-porous paper invented in Japan. It's basically plastic, consisting of polypropylene. It's also made by paper manufacturers in other countries.

• Posca pens

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Victoria Lee Connors travels the world creating landscapes made of wool fiber.

Victoria's landscapes look like paintings from a distance, but are all made from dyed wool. Looking at pictures on the internet we have to imagine the fibrous texture of wool.

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Victoria creates these landscapes out in the open, en plein air. She attaches pieces of fiber to a canvas, resting on an easel, just as a landscape painter does.

Victoria's Website:
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Learn how to get paid as an artist in this Art Supply Posse chat with art business consultant Maria Brophy.

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Most of us are told you can't earn money with art. This episode is a step towards debunking that myth. The movie and a video game industries are huge, and most of the people working on them have creative professions. But even when you know that you can earn money with art, that doesn't make it easy.

Let's face it, most artists are not good at selling their work. Maria specialises in teaching artists about the business of art so they can earn a living making art full time.

Sign up for Maria's 11 week email-coaching course

Maria's book Art, Money, Success

Maria's website

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Learn how ceramics are made with pottery artist Julia Skott.

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If you’ve ever wondered what goes into making your coffee mug, this chat with Julia will give you a good insight.

You can find Julia’s ceramics at Semi-Cool Ceramics.

To hear more art related talk from Julia, check out her podcast with Tiff Arment called Make Do.

Instagram: @semicoolceramics

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This interview with Drew Brophy is full of wise and inspiring insights from someone who has been working as an artist for 30 years.

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Drew discusses how he was discouraged from making his art for several years, simply because it was different to what people knew. He persevered and figured out how to travel the world and get paid to paint surfboards.

Posca Pens

Drew has been using Posca paint markers since the late 1980s. He would import the pens himself and give them away to other artists.

Art & Business

In the final part of the interview Drew talks about how bad the "tortured artist" and "starving artist" myths are. He gives examples of all the different types of commercial artists earning a good income from their art. There is more about Drew’s journey and early years in his book painting surfboards and chasing waves.

Drew’s Links

Drew’s Website

Instagram

Facebook

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Pebble Stationery make affordably priced notebooks with Tomoe River paper. This paper is particularly well suited to drawing and painting with inks. Especially fountain pen inks, because it shows off their full sheening and shading potentials.

Kim talks to co-founder Lois Ho about creating a stationery brand from scratch via Kickstarter, their matching pencils, and charity work.

Tomoe River paper is also used in the Hobonichi diaries/journals. Many people use them for combined art and bullet journalling because the paper handles inks well, many different pens, and even light watercolour.

However, it is very thin paper. There is a lot of show-through, and the paper will go wavy when wet. Fans of the ultra-thin 52 gsm paper like it for its crinkly feel.

Future Art Supply Posse guest Candace Milner uses Tomoe River paper for her pattern drawings.

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Matt Vergotis is known for his hand lettering work, creating company logos using brush pens. Matt chats with Kim about his process, favourite pens, and joining a band.

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To see Matt in action, check out some of his YouTube videos.

If you want to learn hand lettering using brush pens, then Matt’s Skillshare class is highly recommended. He goes into detail about all his art supplies and which brush pens are best for beginners.

Matt’s Website

Matt’s Instagram

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Sara McNally talks to Kim about snail mail, letterpress printing, and writing in both the bad and the good times.

Sara McNally is a snail mail enthusiast, letterpress printer, stationery shop owner, and designer.

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Sara runs her own stationery shop in Seattle, Washington together with currently four employees.

Visit Sara‘s YouTube channel to get an idea of the diverse activities she gets up to. Hear her read out snail mail letters, and get a view inside her shop with its large printing press.

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Links

T-shirt by Snail Mail Superstar

Constellation Co stationery shop

Sara‘s YouTube channel

About Snail Mail Superstar

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This interview with letter writing enthusiast, and all round creative person Naomi Bulger, is a realist’s take on becoming an artist. It’s very refreshing and inspiring. Give it a listen!

Audio note: this interview was recorded via Skype, before we were able to improve our audio quality.

Naomi Bulger is a writer, illustrator and teacher from Melbourne, Australia. Her love for illustration started with reading illustrated children’s books. However, that kind of art was discouraged during her school days. It took a long time for her to find her way back to illustration.

Naomi has worked in journalism and copywriting, and continues with creative writing in different forms. Mail art is what finally got her back into illustrating. It was a creative outlet during a stressful time. In this interview she tells her story, and shares her thoughts on making your creative pursuits a career. She describes some “dos and don’ts” about creative work and how to get started as an illustrator.

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• Naomi’s start as an illustrator

• Other creative outlets before illustration

• Going from journalism to illustration and freelancing

• The positive impact of the Internet

• Making your creativity a career

• Pressure and creativity

• Making time for creativity in everyday life

• What teaching gives back

• Preferred mediums

• Mail art

• How to get started in illustration

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Links

Naomi’s website

Real Artists Don’t Starve by Jeff Goins

Elizabeth Gilbert — Big Magic

Big Magic Review by The Art History Babes — starts at 14:12

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A talk about combining analogue and digital art, using the Procreate app, with Brooke Glaser.

Have you ever scanned your analog artwork, only to be disappointed because the textures and imperfections that made it special have disappeared or been smoothed out?

Have you tried to create textured backgrounds, like watercolours, with software? This is particularly true for hand lettering imported to vector apps, which tend to make everything look the same.

Brooke is an illustrator, surface designer, and art teacher. She tells us how particularly the Procreate app has changed the way she creates illustrations, and compares it to the “olden days“ using Photoshop.

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Procreate is currently only available for the iPad, where it has become the most popular drawing application among professionals. It’s so affordable though at $10 currently that anyone who can afford an iPad can also afford the app. Photoshop costs more than that per month.

Brooke has several classes, currently on Skillshare. She has an excellent beginners introduction to Procreate, and a class showing how to combine analogue with digital art in Procreate.

Brooke’s website:
https://www.brookeglaser.com/

YouTube:
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Instagram:
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Credits

Interview by Kim Cofield.
Audio editing and show notes by Marcus Clearspring.

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​​All the Colours and Beyond - Tetrachromacy with Concetta Antico

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Kim Interviews Concetta Antico. Artist, art teacher and true tetrachromat. Concetta can see up to 100 million more colours than almost anyone else in the world. Concetta’s abilities have been verified scientifically, and researched for six years, at the time of this interview.

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Concetta has been using her unique gift for 25 years to teach others how to see more colours and to paint in oils.

Most people have three colour receptors. We are generally trichromats. Tetrachromacy is a genetic mutation, resulting in a fourth colour receptor. However, having the fourth colour receptor does not make someone a true tetrachromat. Among the very few tetrachromats there are differences as to how many colours each person perceives. Concetta also has an extraordinarily high luminance factor, meaning she sees a lot more light. She sees more colours in low light, or semi darkness.

The physical ability is only the beginning. As Concetta explains, most of her extraordinary colour perception results from her environment and “visual training” as an artist. She has been painting continuously since the age of six.

Originally from Australia, Concetta shares her time between San Diego, California and Australia. Concetta mainly works in oils because she finds she can mix greater nuances of colour with oil paints.

Concetta didn’t discover her tetrachromacy until her daughter started reporting signs of colour deficiency. Tetrachromats can genetically pass on their fourth colour receptor, as Concetta’s mother presumably did to Concetta and her sister, but it can also result in colour deficiency, as with Concetta ‘s daughter. Concetta tells the fascinating story of how she started realising she might not be like everyone else and how that lead to university research studies being done today. Kim and Concetta also discuss how tetrachromacy is part genetics, part learned and environmental.

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Episode Topics

• Oil painting
• Oil paints and tetrachromacy
• Tetrachromacy, life, and science
• Discovering tetrachromacy
• Early support
• Teaching colour based on light values
• Teaching, art shows, and press
• Seeing tetrachromacy in other artists' work
• Artistic “style” versus actually seeing colours differently
• Could trichromats ("normal people") learn to use colour like a true tetrachromat?
• How living in both US and Australia has affected her art
• Advice to new oil painters
• Contact information and final words

Website

https://concettaantico.com/

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/ConcettaKAntico/

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/concettaantico/

Scientific information on tetrachromacy

The mystery of tetrachromacy

Credits

Interview by Kim Cofield.
Audio editing, show notes and intro by Marcus Clearspring
Show notes by Ylva Staberg

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Kim interviews Rachel Hazell “The Travelling Bookbinder”, who teaches how to make artist books.

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About Rachel Hazell

Rachel Hazell travels the world teaching people how to make artist books. She has built a giant two meter tall book for a fashion design exhibit which visitors wrote in, and which travelled the world. Rachel has visited Antarctica three times, teaching sailors to write poetry on a Navy ship, and working as “Postmistress and Penguin Monitor” (her official job title, obviously).

Artist Books

Artist books vary from regular books in their materials which are often customised with hand drawn or hand printed designs. The materials can be very diverse and even feature found objects. Artist books can be unique one-off books, or handmade by a book bindery in small runs, but are generally not mass produced. Artist books push the boundaries of bookbinding and challenge your expectations of what a book can be.

Rachel’s book titled “Bound” has easy to follow projects showing you how to make artist books. It is available from your local bookshop and online.

Links

Rachel’s website and courses: https://www.thetravellingbookbinder.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetravellingbookbinder/

Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/travellingbookbinder

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Photography: Susan Bell, Jane Massey.

Ana interviews Vito Grippi and Gabe Dunmire, the co-founders of Story Supply Co, and we announce our Patreon.

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Mike Hawthorne, lead artist on Marvel’s Deadpool at the time of his ASP interview, designed a sketchbook for Story Supply. Mike was a guest on Art Supply Posse #27​​, chatting about pencils and other art supplies. Explicitly Mike Hawthorne

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Instagram:
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Liz Steel episode

​​Liz Steel talks about becoming an urban sketcher, journalling her life, and teaching art.

​​Liz’s Online sketching courses

​​Liz Steel’s website and blog

Instagram

​​Danny Gregory

​​Urban Sketchers

Liz Steel talks about becoming an art teacher who journals her life by sketching with ink and watercolour . Liz says “I’m doing it because it’s a very honest response to what I see and where I am and what I do”.​​

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##Referenced Art Supply Posse Episodes

​​Episode 2 on watercolours

Episode 4 on fineliners

Episode 18 on fountain pens for drawing
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​​Comparison to photography

​​Kim compares urban sketching to photography, how they both record a fleeting moment, and Liz explains how sketching has replaced photography for her. She used to take photos and print and bind photo books, but now her sketchbooks serve the same purpose. Liz compares herself to other travel sketchers and describes how she wants to document everywhere she’s been, not just one sketch a day. Sometimes she does up to 20 sketches a day.

​​Move from architecture

​​In architecture, it’s important to keep a kind of “idea book” where you keep sketches of buildings and ideas. Liz says she knew it was important, but just never sketched, until she found Danny Gregory. His work opened up sketching for her to include other subjects and mediums. This also opened up an obsession to document her life which got her into sketching.

Liz didn’t make a clean break with architecture but instead, about five years ago, she took 6 months off work. The reasons were many and she wanted to see if she could do something with her art. Things started moving, and Liz got to do both illustration projects and teaching. Liz felt she had more of a role to fill as an architect turned sketcher than as a pure architect. She enjoyed having more creative freedom than her profession allowed.

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​​Becoming a full-time artist and creating online courses

​​The traditional advice for people wanting to work with their creative passion is to balance the time between a “day job” and their passion and transition gradually. Liz did nothing of that, hers was more of a sabbatical turned transition as the demands at her day job were too much to be able to handle a side business too. Liz struggled with gaining recognition locally in the beginning. She was getting more recognition online in the international scene. She also realised she was less into client work and more interested in creating a product, which in her case developed into online courses.

​​Urban sketching in Australia

​​When Liz started out urban sketching, there were just a handful of people in Australia who even knew what it was, but it has definitely grown now. There are groups all over, for example in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Tasmania, South Australia and Perth.
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​​Mediums

​​Liz primarily uses fountain pens with ink and watercolor for her urban sketching. She had been using fountain pens and ink for a long time, but watercolor was her “light bulb moment” and she says “This is what I’ve been looking for all my life”. With watercolor she was able to mix all the colors she wanted.

​​Drawing from observation

​​Liz says she was confident about drawing from her head already, due to her background in architecture, but drawing from observation was trickier. She had to go back to basics and relearn how to apply concepts, like for example perspective, to what she saw and wanted to draw.

Teaching urban sketching

​​Liz didn’t start out wanting to teach, but as she was getting more into the urban sketching community she was encouraged to teach. She now teaches online courses but also do workshops in urban sketching.
​​“The major barrier to art is to change the way your brain thinks, to start thinking visually.”

​​Liz focuses on teaching concepts in her courses, in contrast to “demonstrate and copy”. The concepts can be “how to see edges” or “how to see shapes”, for example. The concepts are followed by exercises to practice and understand these concepts, so you can then continue using them in your own art.

​​Newcomer tips

To get started in urban sketching, all you need is really paper and a pen or pencil, because the most important thing to learn is how to observe and translate that onto paper. Adding too many supplies can distract from that learning. However, if you want to do ink and wash, which is a very common from of urban sketching, Liz recommends getting a permanent fineliner and a watercolor kit.
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​​Don’t worry too much over materials and supplies though, she says, it’s better to just get started. It is a journey and you will figure out what suits you and your art. It will change over time, and starting out with a lot of research on materials will likely just overwhelm you.

Making art regularly

One common problem to making art is to actually make time for it, to show up. Liz describes that as she was starting out, she dedicated some time after dinner every day to do a sketch. She also recommends to go along with an Urban Sketchers group nearby, and joining them sketching. Liz describes how she wants to create a kind of visual diary, a record of what she did that week, so that motivates her to keep sketching even in busy times.

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An episode featuring artist Nick Stewart. It’s all about making art using the unique properties of fountain pen inks. Shading, sheening, chromatography, and bleach. Also, how we plan to get involved in Inktober 2018.

Nick Stewart is a professional artist and graphic designer whose work you will find on things from album covers for well-known musicians to household products on supermarket shelves. However, we are focusing on Nick’s personal project to develop art using fountain pen inks and bleach.

We recommend browsing Nick’s project website before listening to the interview. The questions and answers will make more sense when you are familiar with Nick’s artwork and blog.

Using fountain pen inks as an art supply is a relatively recent development, initially pushed by the urban sketching community. This has led to the development of new waterproof inks by fountain pen ink manufacturers. Until recent years mostly shellac and acrylic based inks were used by artists.

Nick’s experiments with chromatography and bleach however take fountain pen ink art to exciting new places and open up new possibilities, even for artists already working with ink.

Nick also reveals some interesting experiences he has had teaching excluded children — children removed from normal schooling due to behavioural and other issues. Despite all warnings, the students were really engaged and produced lovely results. Nick discusses why, and how the most unlikely students respond to art in this way.

##Topics

• Why ink rather than paint?
• Unpredictability as part of the charm
• Abstract lettering and calligraphy
• Background in graphic design
• Less is more
• Teaching
• Why art can catch the most unlikely people
• Tools and materials
• Safe handling of bleach
• Experimenting

##Links

Nick’s website for his fountain pen ink art

Nick’s “Randall” fountain pen ink

Pen World magazine article PDF August 2018 edition

Nick’s four colour (CMYK) fountain pen ink set

Nick’s fountain pen ink art workshops

Nick’s mission statement on his ink and bleach project

###Nick’s social media and other links

Nick’s professional lettering services

Nick’s Facebook page

​​​​Nick’s Instagram @quinkandbleach

​​​​Nick’s Twitter @nickistew

​​​​The Fountain Pen Network

Fountain Pen Geeks Forum

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