Plein Air Podcast 258: Scott Christensen on His Color Palette, Gouache, and More
Plein Air Magazine
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In this episode, Eric Rhoads interviews Scott Christensen, who has a two-man exhibition with Quang Ho at the Museum of Western Art, from July 20 through September 21, 2024. Listen as they discuss the act of creating art outdoors, their transformative experience of painting in Russia, different approaches to solving common painting problems, color palette preferences, and much more.
Bonus! At what point in an art career should you begin advertising your work? How do you create a "big name" for yourself and get invited to the best galleries and pursued by collectors? Eric Rhoads answers in this episode of the Art Marketing Minute Podcast.
Watch the previous episodes here: @pleinairmag
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Thank you, Erick.
One thing, among so many others, that Scott said was very important and that is that painting is mostly thinking about solving problems, big ones and little ones. That needs/requires intense focus, so I think these group events like the conventions and plein air events/competitions are actually counterproductive for someone who is "serious" about learning to paint. There are far too many distractions, best to just keep painting and trying new things/media to get better. Constant study and practice are the answers to getting competent, just like playing a musical instrument, you must do it almost daily, and with few interruptions. Being a "loner" helps, as Scott says. If you do find that your own self is your "best company", then you may have a chance at this art thing. However, the Conventions are a good place to maybe "hook up" with someone who shares your interests anyway. Probably that's the best value for your money to go to these things. :D
And Lake Tahoe should be fun, for 2025. I'm in AZ now, but lived near the Lake, for many years, and painted all around the area, and other nearby Sierran locations, during the 90's to early 2000's, and I know all the "good spots". I have painted at scores of them, mostly alone, and will sell you a long list, complete with maps, Eric, if you want some "secret" plein air venues that no one else will know about at the Convention!! LOL ;D. Now, here is one "freebie" for you: Hope Valley, particularly in the west fork of the Kit Carson River area. Perhaps you already know of it, many folks in northern CA go there to photograph "fall colors", along Hwy 88. And for Scott, the east fork of that same river would be the best place to fly fish, just out of the tiny village of Markleeville!! Been there, done that, too! Once had a 53 catch and release day there!! LOL ;D
Plein Air Podcast 258: Scott Christensen on His Color Palette, Gouache, and More
Plein Air Magazine
17,154 views
In this episode, Eric Rhoads interviews Scott Christensen, who has a two-man exhibition with Quang Ho at the Museum of Western Art, from July 20 through September 21, 2024. Listen as they discuss the act of creating art outdoors, their transformative experience of painting in Russia, different approaches to solving common painting problems, color palette preferences, and much more.
Bonus! At what point in an art career should you begin advertising your work? How do you create a "big name" for yourself and get invited to the best galleries and pursued by collectors? Eric Rhoads answers in this episode of the Art Marketing Minute Podcast.
Watch the previous episodes here: @pleinairmag
I spent time invigilating group exhibitions, watching majority of visitors walk right past skilled, intellectually stimulating work — on the level of Levitan, Kuindzhi, Korovin, Sargent, Sorolla — to buy painfully mediocre, laboriously “realistic” safe landscapes and still lifes instead.
It crushed me. I realized I’ll never sell a single painting unless I step on the throat of my own aesthetic and visual literacy. It’s a sad truth nobody talks about.