Stephen Bauman on Going From Graffiti to Fine Art

Draftsmen

Stan Prokopenko and Marshall Vandruff

Visual Arts, Design, Arts

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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This episode follows painter Stephen Bauman's journey from graffiti artist to fine art professional. He discusses his beginnings tagging buildings in Miami, training at the prestigious Florence Academy, and developing his artistic skills and philosophy. Bauman provides insights into mastering figure drawing, finding inspiration, judging good art, and creating work that is beautifully crafted. Stephen Bauman - www.stephenbaumanartwork.com/ Learn to Draw - www.proko.com Stan Prokopenko - instagram.com/stanprokopenko Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, drafts people. To help fill the void and the lack of episodes in your draftsman
0:05.3	feed, we're rewinding back to five Proco Classic interviews and one new one. You're listening
0:12.4	to this new miniseries where we take a deep dive into the lives, journeys, and minds of
0:18.3	some of the most fascinating artists and instructors from fine art
0:21.8	masters to comic legends. Our final interview for this series is with Stephen Baumann.
0:27.7	Stephen is a representational artist and a very respected instructor. His online courses have been
0:34.2	growing in popularity, many of which are available at Proko.com, including
0:39.8	the masterpiece demo I recorded when I visited him. Those are all at Proco.com slash Bauman,
0:45.8	B-A-U-M-A-N. There's a lot of insights to be gleaned from his journey, from graffiti to fine art.
0:52.5	Here he is, my friend, Stephen Balman.
0:55.0	Lo do-dood-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
1:00.0	It's the dressing show. Yeah.
1:05.0	Hey guys, welcome to Broko. My name is Stan Brico Panko and we got Stephen Balman. We're in a studio
1:10.5	surrounded by his
1:11.6	stuff, yeah, his creation. He just recorded a demo of, what is it, 20 hours, 20 hour.
1:18.4	Did at least 18, 19, somewhere on there. And we're going to be publishing it on Proco.com
1:23.0	slash Baumann. I can do everything. The whole process. Working from life. Yeah, it's a big
1:27.4	theme. And it has materials, papers life. Yeah, it's a big theme in it.
1:28.3	Materials, papers, stumps, erasers.
1:31.3	Favorite pencil.
1:32.3	My absolute favorite mechanical pencil.
1:34.3	That's the, that's the jet.
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