You're listening to the Savvy Painter Podcast episode number 21.

Welcome to the Savvy Painter Podcast, the Podcast for Artists Who Mean Business.

Here's your host, Antrice Wood.

Hey, it's Antrice and welcome to another episode of The Savvy Painter Podcast.

Peggy Kroll Roberts is with us today.

Peggy paints outdoor figures using luscious color and intense value to accentuate her subject.

She gets to the essence of the figure with simple bold shapes.

Peggy is best known for her beach scenes, but if you've been watching her blog,

you'll know she's also been experimenting a little bit with abstract gouache work,

which is really fun to watch develop.

Peggy, welcome to the savvy painter podcast.

Thanks for talking with me.

Thank you for asking me.

It's a delay.

Can you tell me a little bit about your progression as an artist, what got you started?

I really recognized it when I was very young and I really got my first affirmation in third grade

which made me think she I could I could really have fun doing this I wasn't't thinking of it, you know, that's a little early

for anyone to start thinking of art as a career, but it was in the back of my mind because

my mother was an artist.

She was a very in-demand fashion illustrator in her time.

And so she didn't force it on us, but she encouraged us and I saw her work and she gave me confidence that I could do it and I won my first award in third grade so from then on I just it really

kicked in.

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