Building Businesses and Visual Memory: An Interview with Artist, Lucy Kalian

Savvy Painter Podcast with Antrese Wood

Antrese Wood

Education, Arts, Visual Arts, Self-improvement

4.8 • 941 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

What does it take to hone your visual memory skills as an artist? Can you really build a successful business by selling your artwork? Isn’t (insert any age here) too old to get started as an artist? What am I supposed to do with all this time at home caused by the Coronavirus (COVID-19)? Thankfully, my guest, Lucy Kalian was kind enough to take the time to discuss her answers to these questions and so many more. Lucy is a brilliant and talented artist who started honing her skills at 4...

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey there, it's Antrice and welcome to another episode of the Savvy Painter
0:07.6	podcast. This episode is sponsored by Faso. Faso is the leading provider of fine art websites. They make it easy to get
0:16.0	online, help you sell more of your work, and promote your art. We'll dig into all the details
0:21.6	a little later, but right now I want to let you know that Faso has a special offer just for savvy painter listeners.
0:29.6	Get a Faso artist website and $200 worth of bullbrush ad credits for only $99 your first year.
0:37.6	Plus, they'll even build your website for you.
0:40.9	Go to Sabi painter.com forward slash
0:43.1	Faso to get a breakdown of the details that savvy painter
0:47.2	com forward slash faso this week I had the pleasure of talking with Lucy Callion. Lucy didn't start painting until later in life. In fact, she didn't seriously begin honing her skills until she was 40 years old. 21 years later and she has not looked back.
1:06.5	In this episode Lucy talks about what she did to hone her skills and of course I had to ask for those of you who always ask me I'm fill in the
1:16.7	blank years old is it too late for me to start painting Lucy had some thoughts
1:21.8	about that question that might drive the very idea out of your head.
1:26.8	She shares how she manages her businesses, yes businesses, plural.
1:32.0	In fact, it's her artwork that is now funding a t-shirt business that she's kicking off with her kids.
1:38.0	Lucy shares how she decided it was time to hire a studio manager and what tasks she hands off so that she can focus on her areas of genius.
1:48.0	She also shares some of the things she stopped doing so that she could have more studio time. Lucy has a fun sense of
1:56.8	humor and it definitely shows in her work, but there tends to be a deeper, sometimes darker aspect of our work when you learn the real stories.
2:06.0	Lucy and I also talk about visual memory and how important it is to build that up so that as a painter you become increasingly better at
2:15.1	troubleshooting your own work. Lucy and I had a blast in this conversation. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Here is Lucy Callion. Thank you so much for being on the
2:27.2	show with me. Thanks for asking me. Thanks for asking me. Tell me about your origins,
2:31.8	how you started painting,
2:33.2	because I think you have a really interesting story.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Antrese Wood, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Antrese Wood and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.