Poppy Dodge - Color
02/08/22 • 81 min
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Poppy Dodge is an abstract painter and a Color Maximalist who delights in creating harmony and balance using all the colors. Her work explores her obsession with stacking color and shapes and is influenced by modern improvisational quilting and abstract collage. Poppy says: "I approach painting intuitively and am entirely process driven. I like to think of my work as color celebrations; a stacking of playful color conversations joyfully stitching my life experiences together. We talk about newsletters, tea, the “Ladies of Yet,” and why it can be discouraging to make content solely to be seen instead of for
Takeaways
- It’s got to get ugly before it gets good.
- Persistence and obsession keep you going forward.
- Remind yourself that you’re on Instagram for opportunities and take your ego out of it.
- Add the “YET.” Don’t say I haven’t done that, say I haven’t done that YET.
- A big studio is great – but if you’re scrappy you can carve out a space anywhere.
Mentioned
Hand Yoga Club on YouTube with Heidi Parkes
Frankie magazine
Poppy Dodge is an abstract painter and a Color Maximalist who delights in creating harmony and balance using all the colors. Her work explores her obsession with stacking color and shapes and is influenced by modern improvisational quilting and abstract collage. Poppy says: "I approach painting intuitively and am entirely process driven. I like to think of my work as color celebrations; a stacking of playful color conversations joyfully stitching my life experiences together. We talk about newsletters, tea, the “Ladies of Yet,” and why it can be discouraging to make content solely to be seen instead of for
Takeaways
- It’s got to get ugly before it gets good.
- Persistence and obsession keep you going forward.
- Remind yourself that you’re on Instagram for opportunities and take your ego out of it.
- Add the “YET.” Don’t say I haven’t done that, say I haven’t done that YET.
- A big studio is great – but if you’re scrappy you can carve out a space anywhere.
Mentioned
Hand Yoga Club on YouTube with Heidi Parkes
Frankie magazine
Previous Episode
Alison Watt - Ways of Seeing
Alison Watt has worked as a biologist on seabird colonies, an ecotour guide, has published a novel, a work of non-fiction and a book of poetry. She teaches painting online and in her studio on Protection Island, near Nanaimo, British Columbia.
Alison is interested in where science (especially biology) and art interface and her paintings are informed by landscape and botanical forms. As a self-taught artist who has been painting for over thirty years, Allison relates to both the dream of making the paintings we see in our minds, and the frustrations of mastering the tools, techniques, and mindset to achieving them. Alison is not interested in moral instruction but in illuminating new ways of seeing.
During our conversation, Alison talks about creative destruction, informed intuition, and how freeing it is to paint without brushes.
Takeaways
- Paint as if neither your time nor your materials are valuable.
- “We grow small when we try to be great.” David Hockney
- Our job is to have an authentic relationship with what we’re making.
- Take some time to pause and look back at what you have created.
- Visual imagery can slide underneath language right to the heart.
- Create a lot of opportunity for unexpected events.
- Every layer makes it better.
Mentioned
Dazzle Patterns, by Alison Watt
Triangle Island, Anne Vallée Triangle Island Ecological Reserve
Next Episode
Liz Dexter - Materials
Liz Dexter is a mixed media artist and architect who spends her days finding beauty and joy in the imperfect, unfolding layers of our lives, and discovering awe and wonder in our midst. Liz develops her paintings using many layers of acrylic, collage, plaster, image transfers and glazes – sanding, scraping, and cutting into them along the way to see what is uncovered. She is inspired by the continually transforming world around us by weather and age - crumbling stucco, rusting metal, peeling paint and vine-covered walls - the built environment being consumed by nature. During our conversation, Liz reveals her thoughts about decay, art pods, and the pain of self-promotion.
Takeaways
- Your artistic voice is already inside of you
- Sometimes “ready enough” is the point you where you need to put yourself out there.
- Just do the next thing in the art that needs to be done.
- Live your definition of being a good person.
- Consider creating an art pod.
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