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Episode number 26.

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.

You might remember early in the podcast, interviewed Plain Air artist Kathleen Dumfy and

Kathleen talked about her daily sketching habits and mentioned a book that's really helping

her tackle more complicated subjects in her drawing.

Well my guest today is the author of that book,

Sketching from Square 1 to Trafalgar Square, Richard Scott.

Richard teaches sketching and watercolor techniques in Southern California.

His architectural renderings have been featured in numerous national magazines.

Richard, welcome to the podcast.

Thanks, entries. It's good to be with you. So Richard, welcome to the podcast. Thanks, entries.

It's good to be with you.

So, Richard, tell me a little bit about what inspired you to write

sketching from square one.

Well, it was the kind of book that I wish that I had had when I was a student at Cal Poly. I'm a landscape architect actually by location and when I was going through the landscape architecture program at Cal Poly there, I always drew but there were certain things that I didn't understand about drawing, the process of drawing, the thinking process behind drawing.

So really I wrote the book that I wish I would have had as a student and in fact I actually used the classroom as a laboratory at Cal Poly.

You don't learn anything better than when you have to teach something.

So when I had these ideas I really used the students in my classes as guinea pitch for these ideas and got to develop them over a period of time.

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