Welcome to the Sabby Painter Podcast, the Podcast for

artists who mean business. Here's your host, Antries Wood.

Hello, it's Antries and welcome to the savvy painter podcast. David Gray is my guest this week.

David is a classical realist painter. His work has appeared in Southwest Art, Art of the West, and American art collector.

In this episode, David talks about how being an artist is really being an entrepreneur, and I could not agree with him more.

David shares how he accidentally discovered the power of social media to connect with both students

and collectors.

We also talk about the pressure of supporting a family and making a living as an artist while creating

meaningful art.

Plus what his daughter had to teach him about the joy of making art.

Without further ado, here is David Gray.

David, thank you so much for being on the show with me today. It is a honor to have you.

Well, I'm pleased to participate.

Can you tell me a little bit about how you got started in your painting career. Was there an artist you

admired when you were young that kind of inspired you to be an artist yourself?

Do you want the long story or just you want that point that I decided to paint?

Yeah, let's go with that. The point that you decided that you are going to pursue painting as your vocation or career?

At 26, you know, I'd reached a point in my life where I needed to strike a path vocation. Prior to that there were various things I was pursuing,

although I was always drawing.

And I just... drawing.

And I just realized that art was something I needed to do.

Art was something I needed to do. Art was something I needed to pursue as a career, something I wanted to do, and various things

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