0016 - Painter Chris Long on Forging Your Own Trail and Living an Authentic Life as a Successful Artist

01/05/20 • 49 min

This week I had the privilege of speaking with painter Chris Long, whose gorgeous work I discovered on Instagram.

Born and raised in CT, Long earned a degree from the Lyme Academy College of Fine Art in 2000. After several years of exhibiting and teaching figurative sculpture throughout New England, he took to the road in an RV with his family in 2008. After a couple years of traveling, he had the impulse to switch mediums (which prior to this point he vehemently avoided) and started painting and selling his work in New Orleans at the French Market and on Frenchmen Street.

He currently paints from the iPhone photos his wife takes as they travel across the country.

This week I had the privilege of speaking with painter Chris Long, whose gorgeous work I discovered on Instagram.

He currently paints from the iPhone photos his wife takes as they travel across the country.

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0015 - Maria Brophy on How to Expand Your Reach, Train Your Clients, and Not Die of Exposure

Maria Brophy has been an art licensing and art business consultant for 20 years. She is author of the Amazon Best Selling book, "Art Money & Success". This book has helped thousands of artists learn how to earn money from their art! Maria is a world traveler, surfer, and backpacker. She designed her business to be run from anywhere in the world so that she is free to travel anytime. Since 2009, Maria has helped nearly a million artists learn how to run their art business for fun and profit. Maria's passion is to help artists see their potential and give them a plan to reach it.

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0017 - Plein Air Expert Marc Dalessio on Capturing Nature's Impressions

Marc Dalessio is a classically trained naturalistic painter who has established himself as one of the foremost landscape painters working today. He was recently described as the world’s best living Plein air painter by Eric Rhoads of Plein Air magazine. Born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California, Marc’s artistic training began at the University of California at Santa Cruz where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in Fine Art. He then moved to Florence, Italy and studied portraiture for four years with Charles Cecil at his atelier. After receiving a full scholarship at Cecil Studios, Marc taught portraiture and landscape painting at the school. He later taught landscape painting for the Florence Academy of Art. Marc currently resides in Estremoz, Portugal where he keeps a large studio with his wife and fellow artist, Tina Orsolic Dalessio. They travel to paint landscapes much of the year, and exhibit regularly in the US and in Europe.