Ep. 29 with artist Andrea Costa

How to Decorate

Caroline McDonald

Arts, Business, Design

4.2 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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We invited our exclusive artist Andrea Costa onto the podcast to talk to us about art, being an artist, and how she began her career as an interior designer. What You'll Hear on this Episode: Andrea starts by telling us how she began her career as an interior designer before transitioning into artShe talks to us about how she gets her inspiration for a new painting and her favorite size canvas to paintWe ask her about how she works with interior designers to create art for a specific roomShe tells us about decorating her new space and how often she mixes up her decorShe talks about why she loves to hang other people's artwork instead of her ownWe talk about the pros and cons of having a separate studio space rather than a studio in her basementAndrea tells us about how her music playlist impacts the look of her canvasAndrea coaches us on picking out a piece of art -- she suggests first choosing a budgetAndrea likes to start a room with her piece of art, then building a room about that pieceAndrea tells us about her first big art pieceWe ask her about gallery walls and how to put one togetherAndrea tells us how to mix different colors, styles, and sizes of art in one roomKaren talks about why she loves accessorizing her dining roomWe talk about feedback, seeing her pieces in real homes, and working with expectations for a commissionAndrea talks to us about how long it takes her to paint a piece and why painting abstract pieces takes so much longerAndrea gives us a lesson on paint mediums and why you might prefer working with one versus anotherWe talk about how she started working with Ballard and why she wanted to sell her prints through usWe talk about our Exclusive Artist program and why we love having this option for our customers

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0:00.0	Hi, and welcome back to the How to Decorate Podcast, brought to you by Ballard Designs, where we want to teach you how to decorate your home and unleash your inner decorator.
0:08.8	We'll be interviewing interior designers, stylists, and other design talents, sharing the trials and triumphs of our own homes, and also answering your burning decorating questions.
0:19.3	I'm Caroline McDonald, and I'm in charge of the
0:21.5	Bell Design's blog, How to Decorate.com. I love the burning decorating question every time I laugh.
0:27.2	Karen did not say burning this time. She always does, so I had to. Okay. And Taryn, who are you?
0:34.0	I'm just Taryn. I'm Taryn Schwartz and I am on the product design team.
0:39.4	I'm Karen Mooney and I head up branding at Ballard.
0:59.7	Today's guest is Andrea Costa, one of our exclusive artists.
1:01.5	We're so happy to have you.
1:02.2	Thank you.
1:09.1	It's an extra exciting to have you because I hear that you started out your career in interior design and then transitioned into art.
1:09.6	I did.
1:11.9	That is so cool. Tell us all about it.
1:19.7	Well, I studied art in college. And then when I got out, I did not do anything with artwork.
1:25.3	I got into marketing, a marketing position at an optical lab. And I did that until I have my second child. And I decided to quit my job and stay home from work.
1:29.9	And I started helping a friend of mine do faux finishes, which led me into decorating, which then I started looking for the artwork that, you know, my clients were looking for at a really good price point.
1:44.1	And I thought, thought well I'll just
1:45.3	start painting those I could not find them anywhere and so which led me into my art career
1:50.5	wow I quit decorating after about nine or ten years and then strictly that's a long time though
1:56.7	yeah like and then switching gears and how long have you been painting exclusively?
2:01.1	At least 10 years.
2:02.4	Yeah.
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