Hey, it's Antries, and welcome to another episode of the Savvy Painter podcast.

Skip Wittcombe is my guest today.

Skip grew up on a ranch in Colorado without much encouragement to pursue art as his vocation.

Following his parents advice, he enrolled in college to study business, but he quickly

realized his heart was somewhere else.

Skip Wickham has been painting landscapes of the Western United States for over 40 years now. In this conversation

skip and I talk about learning the craft and then taking every opportunity to

flex your wings to test them and to see if you can fly. We talk about artist

communities, their natural cycles, and how having a sympathetic ear from time to

time is crucial. Skips shares the frustration of pushing through dissatisfaction and plateaus in his painting.

I think, or I hope, that we all go through this at some point as we master certain skills and go on to explore new concepts.

How one deals with these issues greatly impacts our growth as artists.

Eventually a technique becomes less important than why you're doing it and as we discuss

why not how is the question we would be better off asking ourselves.

Skip is a wealth of information and a brilliant creative thinker.

So I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.

Without further ado, here is skip Whitcomb. Well skip thank you so much for being on the

savvy painter podcast I appreciate you taking the time to talk with me today.

Well thank you for the opportunity. Can you tell me a little bit about when you decided to pursue painting as your vocation?

What was going on in your life when you made that leap and said I am going to paint.

I always wanted to be a painter or a sculptor from the time I was quite young, but it wasn't strongly encouraged in my family.

I grew up on a ranch, a working ranch, and my parents were very pragmatic in that respect and the art world really didn't enter into it.

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