Teddi Parker: Embracing Art and Daily Painting

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In the conversation you’ll discover two totally different approaches you can use to build a painting, everything you need to know about using house paint as your acrylic paint, and how your brush strokes can help you create paintings that are loose and impressionistic. Plus a whole lot more.

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We talk color including how Parker approaches her palette and mixing, how she handles saturation, and how her faith has helped her have a healthier relationship with social media. Listen here.

Episode Highlights:

• Early days: Teddi Parker's discovery of the daily painting movement and its influence on Parker's art practice.

• Making time: How to balance motherhood and painting including places you might look to carve out time. 

• Excitement as your driver: Learn why excitement is your best guide and why its important to learn to trust it. 

• Paint choices: When and how you might decide to use Golden Acrylics or switch to house paint.

• Brush preferences: How flat, large brushes might help you create the looser style you’re aiming for.

• Building a painting: Discover how different methods for building up paint work with different types of subjects.

• Getting loose: Learn what you need from your drawing, materials and process to create loose paintings.

• The importance of references: How to set up a still life that also creates a strong painting.

• Series: How working with a single idea can help you play and find your next ideas.   

Join us as we dive into the artistic journey of Teddi Parker. From growing up in a creative household to discovering the daily painting movement, Parker's passion for art and her ability to trust her own gut, has helped her paint bright and joyful paintings.  

In the conversation, we explore how she makes time in a busy life for a robust art practice, how she avoids burnout and all things technical from the paint she uses to how she keeps her brushstrokes loose.  

Tune in for an inspiring exploration of dedication and creativity.

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