Getting Your Ego Out of The Way & Discovering The Freedom To Create: An Interview with Artist, Charly Palmer

Savvy Painter Podcast with Antrese Wood

Antrese Wood

Education, Arts, Visual Arts, Self-improvement

4.8 • 941 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Do you remember that initial spark of creativity or that idea that ushered you on your journey to become an artist? For many of us, that spark was so long ago that we feel like we were born with it. Sometimes we can lose sight of our creative spark or it may even dim over the years - here to give us a powerful perspective from an impressive and seasoned career is the artist, Charly Palmer. Charly Palmer was born in 1960 in Fayette, Alabama and raised in Milwaukee. Eventually, he moved ...

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0:00.0	This episode of the Savvy Painter Podcast is sponsored by Trachell Art Supplies.
0:08.0	Trachell is holding its second annual Pet Portrait Competition and you still have time to enter.
0:13.7	All mediums are welcome.
0:15.6	Submissions are due by September 2nd, 2020.
0:19.1	We'll go over all the details in just a bit or you can go to savvy painter.
0:22.4	com forward slash trachell.
0:26.0	This week on the podcast I'm super excited to share a conversation with Charlie Palmer.
0:31.2	Charlie's work is in private and public collections, which include Atlanta Life Insurance
0:35.6	McDonald's Corporation, Miller Brewing Company, the Coca-Cola Company, and Vanderbilt University.
0:41.7	His work, his story, belonging to the estate of Maya Angela, was auctioned by Swan Gallery in 2015.
0:48.0	Charlie's work was commissioned for the 1996 Olympics and the and in 2017 he accomplished the same for Howard University.
1:04.4	Charlie completed a project with the Green Bay Packers which features art for the Lambow Stadium
1:09.2	and if that is not enough Charlie also illustrates children's books. He received the 2018 Coretta
1:15.8	Scott King John Step To New Talent Award for his book Mama Africa. And in this episode, Charlie
1:22.3	and I talk about making the transition from commercial advertising to full-time artists.
1:27.0	We talk about the limitations of corporate life versus freedom and self-employment, how he manages dozens of projects at a time, and how to stay focused on your work.
1:38.4	We also dig into how our Eagle plays a role in our artistic practice and the importance of taking compliments and receiving
1:46.8	them.
1:48.0	This is another wide-ranging conversation.
1:50.9	I so much enjoyed talking with Charlie. My favorite quote from this
1:55.0	conversation with Charlie was I don't know how long I'm going to be here so I need to
2:00.2	take advantage of every day to do something creative. That completely resonated with me. So I would love to hear
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