Podcasts of artists who create paintings in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2024!
Education free for everyone. Media about becoming an artist, selling art online and offline, and creating paintings this summer.
Browse painters who create some of the most exciting in art for the summer. Here are a few of the artists we interviewed in our latest podcasts.
I moved here the first time in the mid-nineties, Santa Fe and the spring of 96 and I’ve come and gone a few times, but, uh, it’s been my home base ever since.
I was the kid that was doing the drawing and the painting and the creative stuff out of my group of friends.
Went to the Maryland Stu College of Art. It’s also known as Mica. It’s really a good school. It’s an old school, really good painting school.
Even as short a time as 15, 20 years ago, when I started tattooing, that was like the first generation of art school graduates that were becoming tattooers. And there were a few before that we weren’t the first, but likely if you got tattooed and, you know, say the seventies, eighties, it certainly wasn’t by an art school graduate. It was more by like, you know, more of an outlaw biker type scene.
I’d say the price I wanted. They’d say, no, ‘We don’t think you can sell for that much. We’ll sell it for this much.’ Then they get half of that, Right? I was like, ‘Oh man, I gotta keep waiting tables if I’m, if I sell work! If I sell all the work this much, which I won’t all, all the work this month, which I probably wouldn’t, I would still not cover my rent!’ When I discovered festivals as an option and art fairs, art festivals, I was, it gave me my, my power back. It gave me control of my own destiny. I didn’t have to wait for someone else. I didn’t have to hope someone else could tell my story the way I knew I could tell my story.
Art. Art is relative. It’s, everyone’s different. Everyone has a different voice. Everybody’s unique, which is great. That’s what it’s supposed to be. But I think people definitely can get offended very easily from an image. Not that that’s my intent per se. Sometimes I will paint something I kind of know is gonna tick somebody off. That’s not the absolute meaning of it. That’s not why I painted it to a bunch of people off. That’s not me.
Maybe somebody won’t buy it, but I’ve had pretty good luck so far as far as people buying paintings that are very controversial.
I think a lot of times when I paint certain paintings anyway, I don’t think it’s just my voice. I think it it’s really, it’s kind of speaking for a lot of people. I mean, of course, some of it is just me going crazy and, I wanna paint this, but you know, a lot of the paintings that I decided to paint, I think it’s more of a voice for a lot of people.
this is a painting I’m working on right now and it’s challenging because I’m trying kind of a different method kind of messing with color theory and it’s not so much lines. A lot of my artwork has a lot to do with the lines, you know, and there are still the black lines here, but I’m trying to experiment with getting, you know, with the different plain colors playing off each other. And since I haven’t painted with acrylic like this in so long, been very challenging. I do these drawings in these cities constantly, uh, in these weird city skates with little Hills kind of cartoony.
