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 David Chevalino is my guest today. David paint speakers in

landscapes his work is marked by bold loose brush strokes and thick juicy paint.

He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Arts Student League in New York. David's paintings can be seen at Thomas Dean's Fine Art, Quidley and Company,

Gallery 1261, Somerville Manning, and on his website David Chivalino.com.

This is a two-part interview. In part one, David talks about how he discovered art on his own as a teenager and found the right school to nurture his development

at a time when a lot of schools weren't interested in the work he wanted to create.

We also talk about how David made small pivots in his career in response to a bad economy and also how he was able to make a bold transition in his painting style.

Do you remember the very first painting that she did that you were really proud of? That would be going back quite a ways.

I would have been probably in my early teens.

And I started out by copying some old master paintings from some books that I had at the time.

I would have been about 14 or 15 and I think there was some paintings I may have copied by Peter Paul Rubens and I remember thinking that well at the time and even now as I look back I think considering that I was about 14 or 15.

When I painted them, I felt good about them.

So I'd say, yeah, I'd say it was probably around that time between the ages of 14 and 15.

Do you still have them?

I do, well I do.

They're actually, you know, they're actually hanging in my mother's house.

But they do still exist.

I have a drawing of a horse when I did when I was like five years old. I still remember doing that drawing.

Yeah, I think things like that are they have a lot of significance.

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