86. Wendy MacNaughton: Putting On Your Art Eyes

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Wendy MacNaughton is an acclaimed visual artist whose work you’ve probably seen and/or love. Between illustrating the bestselling cookbook Salt Fat Acid Heat, drawing for the New York Times, and teaching “Draw Together” online art classes for kids, she somehow found the time to design the artwork for Mike’s show The Old Man and the Pool, as well as co-design the cover art for The New One book. Mike talks with Wendy about the process of finding one’s artistic voice, turning her car into a mobile art studio, and the relationship between writing jokes and drawing pictures.

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0:00.0	I mean, a lot of people ask who are starting off drawing.
0:04.0	I'm sure you get this maybe with comedy and jokes too.
0:07.9	People say, well, how do I develop my own style?
0:11.3	Like, well, first you copy a lot of people.
0:14.2	You just do everything, just riff off of everybody.
0:17.9	But then I ask them, how do you do figure out your handwriting?
0:22.2	Like, you just did it, right?
0:24.2	You just wrote and you just kept writing and writing and writing.
0:26.8	And eventually you created a handwriting that nobody else
0:29.4	is handwriting looks like.
0:33.6	We are back with a new episode of Working It Out.
0:36.3	That's the voice of Wendy McNutton.
0:39.5	She is possibly my favorite artist, visual artist,
0:43.3	on the face of the earth.
0:45.2	You probably know her work.
0:47.1	She drew all the pictures in Salt Fat Acid heat,
0:51.6	which is like this book that sold to the Zillion copies.
0:54.8	It's incredible.
0:56.0	She did the Old Man and the Pool artwork
0:58.4	with Jen, my wife Jen's photograph of me in the pool.
1:02.8	That's super cool thing.
1:03.8	She did the new one book cover along with Crystal Socka.
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