Hello's entries and welcome to another episode of the savvy painter podcast.

Lori Lipton is my guest today.

Lori creates massive intricate drawings using her very own peculiar drawing

technique. She builds up tone with thousands of fine cross-hatching lines, kind of

like an egg tempera painting. So Lori and I talk about how she developed

her own method of working, and she calls it giving birth to an elephant, so if that sounds painful, it was a little bit.

We also talk about her need to say something about what is going on in this world.

After studying at Carnegie Mellon, Lori went to live in Europe for 36 years, where she immersed her At and installations were in vogue. Throughout her journey as an artist

Lori was consistently told you can't do that but her relentless pursuit and belief in

herself eventually paid off. So Lori is a character. This was a really fun conversation. I had a great

time talking with her about her work. I should mention though that there are one or two quote-unquote

colorful phrases in this conversation so fair

warning if you have kids in the room. Without further ado here is Lori Lipton.

Lori thank you so much for being on the Sabby Painter podcast with me.

You're welcome.

Thank you for asking me.

I know you had a very interesting start, I think, your your art career that you began studying

at Carnegie Mellon and and you just kind of went off on your own can you talk a

little bit about that? I submitted a proposal to the Carnegie Mellon faculty,

me and two other students.

And we said we wanted to have our junior year abroad.

And usually they had junior year abroad

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