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Learn the business of visual art from today's finest artists and art marketers.

  1. 164 Sandra Duran Wilson — Play and Surrender

    5D AGO

    164 Sandra Duran Wilson — Play and Surrender

    Join our next BoldBrush LIVE! Webinar by signing up here: register.boldbrush.com/live-guest Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com Get over 50% off your first year on your artist website with FASO: FASO.com/podcast --- On today's episode we sat down with Sandra Duran Wilson, an abstract painter, sculptor, author, and scientist based in Santa Fe. Sandra discusses how her dual upbringing among scientists and artists, plus early plein air experiences with her great aunt, shaped her experimental, curiosity-driven approach to art. She explains that creating is “like breathing” and that her artistic voice emerged over thousands of paintings, influenced by her background in cognitive science and early fascination with cellular structures seen through a microscope. She also discusses how intention, story, and lived experience transform craft into art, emphasizing that story can be conveyed through color, texture, layers, and emotion rather than literal representation. Sandra describes her book Awakening Your Creative Soul and related “soul spark” exercises as a manual for weekly play and experimentation, rooted partly in her years working with people in addiction and trauma recovery. Sandra also gives us tips about quieting the inner critic, using strategies like “muting” it, keeping a playful side canvas, working quickly with timers, and embracing imperfection and surrender—especially for perfectionist oriented artists. Sandra also shares how she built a career as a full-time artist through outdoor shows, teaching, writing, and relationships with collectors. Finally, Sandra highlights her upcoming Ireland workshop and a long-term installation project wrapping burned trees in painted canvases to respond to climate-change-driven wildfires. Sandra's FASO site: sandraduranwilson.com Sandra's Social Media: instagram.com/sandraduranwilson/ facebook.com/sandraduranwilsonartist Sandra's YouTube Channel: youtube.com/sandraduranwilson

    1h 27m
  2. 163 Romona Youngquist — You Make it Work

    JAN 7

    163 Romona Youngquist — You Make it Work

    Join our next BoldBrush LIVE! Webinar by signing up here: register.boldbrush.com/live-guest Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com Get over 50% off your first year on your artist website with FASO: FASO.com/podcast --- For our first episode of the year, we sat down with Romona Youngquist, an artist who describes herself as a lifelong “country girl” and homebody whose deepest desire has always been to paint the rural surroundings she loves, often within a 20-mile radius of her home. She recalls recognizing her calling as an artist as early as age four or five, and later feeling that oil paint was her true medium after experimenting with watercolor and acrylics in college. She also tells us about how throughout her life she held a series of unconventional jobs, but always returned to nostalgic rural landscapes, eventually realizing she could not keep a “normal” job and had to make art her livelihood. Romona explains that her paintings are driven by intuition, memory, and emotion rather than strict realism: she chases a very specific feeling in the light and design of a scene, mixing plein air sketches, photos, and childhood memories of Oklahoma’s skies and trees. She also talks about the tension between nostalgia and change, seeing herself partly as a visual historian preserving vanishing farmsteads, gardens, and rural spaces, and notes how her work has evolved toward more layering and a desire for greater simplification and abstraction. Romona offers advice to aspiring artists; she stresses building a large, solid body of work, considering financial stability, and accepting that painting is an ongoing, often difficult process where doubt never fully disappears, but commitment to one’s vision is essential. Finally, Romona tells us about her upcoming shows! Romona's FASO site: romonayoungquist.com Romona's Instagram: instagram.com/rlyoungquist/

    1h 11m
  3. 162 David Griffin — Pursue Your Own Heart

    12/24/2025

    162 David Griffin — Pursue Your Own Heart

    Join our next BoldBrush LIVE! Webinar by signing up here: register.boldbrush.com/live-guest Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com Get over 50% off your first year on your artist website with FASO: FASO.com/podcast --- In our final episode of the year, we sat down with David Griffin, a fine artist with a love of capturing the nostalgic scenes of his childhood. David shares his journey from pre‑med student and college baseball player in Lubbock, Texas to becoming a successful illustrator and, later, a fine artist rooted in realism and storytelling. He recounts formative experiences at the Illustrators Workshop in New York, his years sharing a Dallas studio with top illustrators, and the lessons they taught him about composition, narrative, and creating “a place for the eye to rest.” David explores how memory, truth, and heritage—big skies, ranch life, and family artifacts—shape his work and give it emotional honesty. A major focus is David’s new long-term project, “The Art of Wandering,” where he will document how mental and physical wandering with a sense of wonder leads to ideas, large paintings, and deeper relationships with collectors and fellow artists. David also dives into the idea of art as a lifelong calling, discussing struggle, hard work versus talent, the trap of imitating others, and the importance of finding one’s own authentic voice by pursuing one's own heart. David closes by reflecting on art as a conversation without words, his hope that truthful work outlives the artist, and his gratitude for the creative community and opportunities ahead. David's FASO site: davidgriffinstudio.com David's Social Media: instagram.com/davidrgriffin facebook.com/david.griffin.5

    1h 32m
  4. 161 Carl Bretzke — Say Yes to Opportunity!

    12/17/2025

    161 Carl Bretzke — Say Yes to Opportunity!

    Join our next BoldBrush LIVE! Webinar by signing up here: register.boldbrush.com/live-guest Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com Get over 50% off your first year on your artist website with FASO: FASO.com/podcast --- For today's episode, we sat down with realist oil painter and former radiologist Carl Bretzky, who shares his journey from growing up interested in art and photography, through a medical career in interventional radiology, to becoming a full-time artist in 2016. He explains how studying with Joe Paquet and participating in plein air events around the country shaped his love for landscape, urban scenes, and especially nocturnes, which he believes are often easier and faster to paint than daytime scenes due to their homogeneous darks and clear value transitions. Carl discusses his use of the rule of thirds and his approach to composition, often reimagining scenes—like his piece Hotel Laguna Nocturne—in the studio to adjust skies, colors, and clouds for stronger visual impact. Carl also tells us about his use of the prismatic palette, rooted in the teachings of Frank Vincent DuMond, and how understanding prismatic color shifts and subtle gradations helps create convincing light, atmosphere, and distance. Finally, Carl offers advice on building an art career through instruction, plein air competitions, galleries, networking, and social media, emphasizing saying yes to opportunities, maintaining an active studio practice, and cultivating community with other artists. Carl's FASO site: carlbretzke.com Carl's Social Media: instagram.com/carlbretzkeart facebook.com/carl.bretzke.3 Carl's Videos: Instructional Videos

    57 min
  5. 160 Artistic Technique — Tips for Artists

    12/10/2025

    160 Artistic Technique — Tips for Artists

    Join our next BoldBrush LIVE! Webinar by signing up here: register.boldbrush.com/live-guest Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com Get over 50% off your first year on your artist website with FASO: FASO.com/podcast --- For this week's episode, we made a compilation of our past guests reflecting on how early influences, mentors, and disciplined study shaped their art, and how they often feel driven to keep growing rather than staying comfortable. They describe learning fastest by painting from life—especially in plein air—tackling unfamiliar subjects, simplifying values, and using subtle color temperature shifts instead of high-contrast effects. Throughout the episode, our past guests stress intentional decision-making in composition and color, the importance of not overworking a piece, and the deep community and life-changing connections formed through workshops and shared painting experiences. Episodes mentioned: 158 Cynthia Rosen 156 Shanna Kunz 155 Scott D. Prior 154 Julie Davis 151 John Morra 138 Michelle Dunaway 137 Chris Krupinski 136 Bill Davidson 127 Jill Basham

    42 min
  6. 159 Barbara Jaenicke — Push Through the Self-Doubt

    12/03/2025

    159 Barbara Jaenicke — Push Through the Self-Doubt

    Join our next BoldBrush LIVE! Webinar by signing up here: register.boldbrush.com/live-guest Order your exclusive da Vinci BoldBrush paintbrush set! brushoffer.com/collections/all Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com Get over 50% off your first year on your artist website with FASO: FASO.com/podcast --- For today's episode we sat down with Barbara Jaenicke, an accomplished fine artist known for her impressionist landscapes created in oil and pastel. Originally from New Jersey, Barbara moved to Atlanta and later to Bend, Oregon, where the scenery continues to inspire her work. Her journey began with various art media and developed into a passion for capturing light, atmosphere, and reflective elements in nature. After careers in advertising and marketing, Barbara gradually transitioned into full-time painting, applying business and organizational skills to support her art practice. She emphasizes relentless skill development, time management, and perseverance as keys to succeeding as an artist. Barbara believes that genuine drive and a love for beauty are essential, encouraging artists to stay inspired and tackle both the creative and business sides of their careers. Finally, Barbara tells us about her upcoming  workshops as well as her solo show at Cole Gallery in Edmonds, Washington, which features coastal and mountain scenes! Barbara's FASO site: www.barbarajaenicke.com/ Barbara's Social Media: instagram.com/barbaracourtneyjaenicke/ Barbara's Book: Painting the Poetic Landscape

    1h 25m
  7. 158 Cynthia Rosen — The Heart Drives the Work

    11/26/2025

    158 Cynthia Rosen — The Heart Drives the Work

    Join our next BoldBrush LIVE! Webinar by signing up here: register.boldbrush.com/live-guest Order your exclusive da Vinci BoldBrush paintbrush set! brushoffer.com/collections/all Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com Get over 50% off your first year on your artist website with FASO: FASO.com/podcast --- For today's episode, we sat down with Cynthia Rosen, a successful palette knife artist who began painting seriously after raising six children and having previously worked as an art educator, first exploring realism before moving into abstraction and plein air painting. After a break from art to focus on family, Cynthia returned to painting through mural projects, eventually discovering her passion for plein air and the palette knife technique. Throughout the conversation, she emphasizes the importance of continuous growth, problem-solving, and self-awareness in her creative process, often working on multiple canvases at once. Cynthia credits social media, particularly Facebook art groups, and networking at plein air events with helping her build a successful career later in life. She also discusses her teaching philosophy in workshops, her belief in balancing hard work and luck, and reminds artists that it's the heart that drives the work. Finally, Cynthia tells us where we can see more of her artwork and to stay posted for her upcoming shows and workshops! Cynthia's FASO site: cynthiarosen.com/ Cynthia's Social Media: instagram.com/rosencynthia/ facebook.com/cynthiarosen.art

    1h 49m
  8. 157 Chantel Lynn Barber — Let Go of Perfectionism

    11/19/2025

    157 Chantel Lynn Barber — Let Go of Perfectionism

    Join our next BoldBrush LIVE! Webinar by signing up here: register.boldbrush.com/live-guest Order your exclusive da Vinci BoldBrush paintbrush set! brushoffer.com/collections/all Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com Get over 50% off your first year on your artist website with FASO: FASO.com/podcast --- For today's episode, we sat down with Chantel Lynn Barber, an award-winning contemporary artist and educator, renowned for her expressive acrylic portraits and dedication to inspiring creativity in others. Chantel discusses her artistic journey, emphasizing her transition from oil to acrylic paints due to practicality and personal preference. She highlights her 20-year career, including running a storefront business and creating various art forms like furniture painting and glassware. Chantel stresses the importance of using high-quality materials, such as professional-grade acrylics, and shares her techniques for maintaining paint consistency. She also touches on the emotional and financial aspects of being an artist, advocating for self-respect and strategic marketing to reach the right audience. Chantel believes success is about continuous growth and not stagnation, and she values the personal and professional development that comes from her art. She also discusses her definition of success as an artist, emphasizing the importance of creating joyful and uplifting work that resonates with others while also nurturing her own soul. She highlights the value of beauty in enriching lives and the necessity of self-care and positive self-talk in the face of artistic challenges while reminding artists that they should let go of perfectionism. She also advises setting goals, networking with other artists, and being open to new opportunities. Finally, Chantel mentions her upcoming exhibitions and workshops! Chantel's FASO site: chantellynnbarber.com/ Chantel's Social Media: instagram.com/fineartofchantel

    1h 48m
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    BoldBrush
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    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
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