I have a massive girlcrush on Laurel. If you’ve ever struggled to create art that looks like the art going on in your head, then you’re going to discover your newest girlcrush too. If you’re a food person, same thing. Hell, if you are a living, breathing, creative, then Laurel will find her way to the top of your list.
Laurel’s workshop (for Get Messy members only): How to Get Your Vision from the Journal to the Canvas without Making Dull, Flat Paintings
🎨 Watch Laurel’s Free Masterclass
Podcast Show Notes
We discuss:
- FOOD! and its magical ability to connect
- art school as a choice
- creating art that looks like you
- perfectionism and perfectionist tendencies
- nurturing yourself and your art
- the value of not knowing what you’re doing
- markers of good art
- Laurel’s Vision to Canvas method
- slowing down – the arrival vs. the journey
- top down vs bottom up creating
- bringing all of you to the page or canvas
- having a base set of skills and the idea of intuitiveness from knowledge
- closing the gap and embracing where you are
“Take the pressure off and just keep making art. The answer is in your painting”
– Laurel Greenfield
Here’s the painting Laurel was talking about:
Ira Glass on the Creative Process