Welcome to the savvy painter podcast, the podcast for artists who mean business. Here's

your host, Antrice Wood. Hello, it's Antries and welcome to the savvy painter

podcast. I am so glad to have you here for

another episode. This week my guest is the Plain Air Painter John Cosby.

John began his art career at sea. Like so many people in their 20s he had the

urge to travel and see what else is out there. Other sailors noticed him

drawing. John needed to eat so he sold his drawings or

bartered for gear. In this episode John describes how what started as a necessity

morphed into a 35-year adventure in painting.

When John began to focus exclusively on his art, there was not much going on in the Newport Beach

area of California, at least not in terms of art.

So he started his own gallery.

But just a little farther down the coast of California in a place called Laguna Beach, there

was a mecca of artists. And John gives us the

backstory on how that came to be and how he and a group of friends formed their own

community of Plain Air Painters with the Laguna Plain Air Pain Air Painters Association.

More recently, John has been working on a project called Rust and Roadsides with Joe

Paquette. They are painting what is known as the Rust Belt.

After many factories and manufacturing shut down across the United States, towns and entire cities were abandoned and left-blided.

John tells some pretty colorful stories about staying safe while plain air painting.

And of course, as you probably expect by now, we talk about the issues

artists wrestle with almost daily. Managing your painting practice, staying

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