Hello friends. Welcome to a new episode of the Savvy Painter Podcast. Today we have a very special guest,

Aaron Radicki. Aaron is an amazing painter who likes to paint things she sees around her and uses her paintings to tell stories about her life.

She is an observational painter, brilliant colorist, and she's here to share her story to talk about how she uses colors to show

her feelings and what she thinks about when she's making her art.

So let's dive into this conversation with Aaron Radiki. Well my name is Aaron Radiki and I study I'm a painter and I would describe myself as a perceptual painter or observational painter. I always work from life, and I find that's very important for my work.

And the more and more at paint is becoming,

it always has been, but pretty autobiographical.

I think of some ways, like the work is kind of becoming a long narrative.

But it's I mean to get back to kind of how I got here I studied painting at Indiana

University so I went there from 1995 to 2000,

and then and kind of just stumbled into painting.

It's not like I had, you know,

I always liked art growing up, but I grew up in a non it wasn't very an

artist it wasn't very artsy place I grew up in a family of

CPAs and accountants so everything was business and you know the art supplies and stuff

that I got were very much from like the drugstore you know the temper panes are you

right just in the art that I was exposed to was I call Mark stores. So, but yeah, so I got, I always

knew I liked it, but I kind of snuck in an art class my first semester of freshman year and then

kept snaking in art classes.

In high school or was that like at Indiana?

Yeah, Indiana University.

So yeah, I just, I kind of, it was out of curiosity, but it's almost kind of like, I remember looking at the

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