You're listening to the Savvy Painter Podcast, episode number 15.

Welcome to the Savvy Painter Podcast, the podcast for artists who mean business.

Here's your host, Antrice Wood.

Hey, it's Antrice here and welcome to another edition of the Savvy Painter

podcast. You are in for a treat today.

I have Alvaro Castignette on the show.

And if you've never heard of Alvaro, Alvaro is a watercolorist from Uruguay.

He is as passionate as he is talented. But as Alvaro himself will tell you,

it's not talent alone that makes a good artist. There's something deep inside of us and until we develop the courage and

the wisdom to honor that we can't truly call ourselves an artist. So without further

ado, ladies and gentlemen, Alvero Castignette.

Welcome to the show, Alvera. Thank you so much for being here.

Can you tell me a little bit about your development as an artist and when you made this shift to a professional?

Well, I look at to make a brief history of all that development.

When I was a child I went to art school and everything else and I always gravitate towards art and I knew somehow that I have certain ability to it.

But the turning point and becoming to a professional painter probably happens in Australia. I wouldn't say probably happen in Australia.

And a couple of reasons, you you know the first reason is obviously I

I got that within me and that believed in me and also that pleasure of that is so

essential to to draw and paint.

And secondly, when you leave your country or your homeland

and you go somewhere else to make a living or just a little bit of past time you

liberate yourself from the from the weight on your shoulder of we all got it

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