Welcome to the Sabby Painter Podcast, the Podcast for Artists who Mean Business.

Here's your host, Antrice Wood.

Hello, it's Antrice, and welcome to another episode of the savvy painter

podcast. My guest today is Carol Swinny. Carol is a plain air painter who works

exclusively with the palette knife.

She lives on a ranch in Wyoming and travels extensively through the Grand Titans, the Rocky Mountains,

and the mountains around Tucson, where she has another studio. Carol has won numerous awards for her landscape painting.

She's a member of the California Art Club, the Rocky Mountain Plain Air Painters,

Opa, and she's a signature member of American women artists.

Welcome Carol, thanks so much for being here.

Oh, well, thank you, Antherice, I'm very delighted and happy to be here also.

Can you tell me about the first painting that you did, that you feel really proud of?

Do you remember that?

Not really.

I don't remember the exact thing to you. I remember more periods in my development as an artist,

more periods where it was a gradual change and I can see, oh oh I started going to more detail or I started

doing a little bit more of this or that so I see more like that than an individual

painting. And I know you had a mentor that really influenced you turning to palette knife painting.

Can you talk a little bit about that?

Yes, I actually had two mentors, but one in particular that he was a palette knife painter and he is 100% the reason that I probably went to

palette knife as my tool of choice for my art and his name was Bill Freeman and he passed away about a year and a half ago and I miss him a lot and I painted with him probably for almost 25 years.

Wow.

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