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.

I am honored to have Yayel Skalia as my guest today.

I met Yayel in Italy last summer at the JSS in Chavita program and if you have never seen her work do yourself a favor

soak it in her paintings are exquisite jewels and like the artist herself the paintings are eloquent and

understated. In this episode Yayal and I talk about her early years at college and why studying with somebody who knows something

about artistic tradition is so important. Yayel shares how she used small format gouache sketches

to develop her vision and to formulate pictorial

ideals.

She gives advice on how to learn to compose a motif.

And of course we talk about Chavita Castellana and how her time there every summer with the JSS program serves

as preparation for her painting in Jerusalem.

Yayal Skalia is represented by Rothschild Fine Art in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Without further ado, here's Yayel Skalia.

So Yayel, thank you so much for being on the show with me.

I really appreciate you taking the time to talk. It's a pleasure. much for

inviting me. I really appreciate you taking the time to talk. It's a pleasure. Thanks so much for inviting me. I'm really, uh, I'm excited to be able to do it.

I want to talk a little bit about your background and when you first started painting. Was there an artist

that you admired when you were young that inspired you to become an artist yourself?

Well I wouldn't say there was one. I grew up in a home that had a love of the arts. My mother's

parents were you know relatively cultured people. My grandfather was a furniture designer there were books

around about painting I was always interested in it and I loved Coro I knew about

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