Artful Painter Podcast: Dan McCaw - Painting Purple Trees [AUDIO-ONLY]
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
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Dan McCaw believes that art is a “collaboration between the heart and mind.” The result of that often contentious, frustrating collaboration are paintings that expose the artist’s soul. Dan’s paintings are rich with thick texture, vibrant colors, and strong contrasts. As a contemporary impressionist painter, his works are highly sought out by collectors and people who love art. His paintings dance between the realms of representational, figurative, and abstract expressionism. Dan is always exploring, always experimenting.
I first discovered Dan McCaw about twenty years ago when I found his book, A Proven Strategy for Creating Great Art, on the shelf of a Borders book store. Of course, Borders is no longer. However, Dan’s wisdom lives on in this rare and highly sought after book. This wasn’t just another how-to-paint book. Dan went beyond that. He explored such topics as opening your heart, rendering versus expression, developing a point of view, broadening your perceptions, enjoying your journey, and much more.
In our conversation in this edition of the Artful Painter, Dan continues his exploration of things that affect an artist’s growth. In a world where people are so quick to take sides and condemn those who do not agree with them, it certainly takes courage to create. Dan wants to help artists break out from the chains of oppressive, opinionated art-making dogma and learn to freely express themselves in their paintings. The challenge is much like that of a child who uses exuberant colors to paint a tree, but are crushingly chided for not painting the leaves of the tree the color green “like you are supposed to.” Dan McCaw is on a mission to help artists continue painting their purple trees.
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As soon as I pressed play, I was instantly relaxed 🙏
I love this guy sooooo much!
cant believe the amazing caliber of painters you get.
Dan was one of my favorite teachers at Art Center. He helped me so much. Thanks Dan!
That must have been an awesome experience!
@@CarlOlsonArt Dan was teaching our class in the studio. He set up a Still Life for us to paint. I vividly remember him sitting at my easel /bench and demonstrating how to paint the flowers as a group versus individual flowers. He helped me understand and to see things as shapes versus individual components. He made it look so easy. I was completely astonished.
Listening to this while painting some sketches for future paintings. I bought Dan's book years ago at its normal price. It's a beautiful book.
Hang on to that book. It’s expensive on the used book market.
@@CarlOlsonArt I know. it's so annoying that the used book market has been hijacked like this.
It’s gotten so out of hand. In a way there’s a certain amount of price fixing going on with sellers.
I met and started studying with Dan McCaw in 1977, when he was in Don Putt Putman's old studio. Over the many years of study, I purchased about 7 or 8 of his paintings. You have to paint from your soul...always be TRUE TO YOURSELF, and Dan helped me do that! Stop by: www.bettybillups.com
I just bought his book for $243 !! That’s the average
Yikes! I’m glad I got mine when I did.