The FASO Podcast

Join our next FASO Show Live! https://artists.boldbrush.com/p/the-faso-show Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com -- For today's episode we sat down with Mick McAndrews, a professional watercolor artist from Pennsylvania who turned to painting after a long career in IT and has spent decades developing his craft. He credits practice, design fundamentals, wo...

Join our next FASO Show Live! https://artists.boldbrush.com/p/the-faso-show Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com -- In this episode, we sat down with Brenda Boylan, a lifelong creator who moved from corporate graphic design into fine art, working primarily in oil painting in recent years while continuing to value pastel. Brenda discusses her journey from study...

Join our next FASO Show Live! https://artists.boldbrush.com/p/the-faso-show Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com -- To kick off season 16, we sat down with Donna Montgomery, a retired teacher and accomplished watercolorist who looked at her own landscapes and felt something was missing. What she found was play: she now treats her studio days like a kid's...

Join our next FASO Show Live! https://artists.boldbrush.com/p/the-faso-show Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com -- For today's episode, we sat down with Nicole Troup, a Pennsylvania-based portrait artist and instructor who specializes in oil and charcoal commissions, leads workshops both online and in person, and runs her storytelling-driven nonprofit in...

Join our next FASO Show Live! https://artists.boldbrush.com/p/the-faso-show Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com -- For today's episode we sat down with JM Brodrick, a wildlife painter originally from Detroit, Michigan, who trained early under her Finnish grandmother and now creates large, ethereal acrylic works that often get mistaken for oils. She expla...

Join our next FASO Show Live! https://artists.boldbrush.com/p/the-faso-show Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com -- Welcome back to another compilation episode. Today's topic is the one almost every artist either loves to hate or just quietly avoids: marketing. Social media, email lists, galleries versus going direct. We pulled the most practical, most re...

Join our next FASO Show Live! https://artists.boldbrush.com/p/the-faso-show Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com -- Welcome back to another compilation episode. Today we're going deep on one relationship that shapes many painting careers, whether you love it or dread it: the one between an artist and a gallery. We pulled the best, most specific moments on...

Join our next FASO Show Live! https://artists.boldbrush.com/p/the-faso-show Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com -- For today's episode we sat down with Rich Nelson, a signature member of both the Portrait Society of America and Oil Painters of America, with a career that grew out of an unlikely start playing in a rock band before formal illustration trai...

Join our next FASO Show Live! https://artists.boldbrush.com/p/the-faso-show Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com -- Welcome to a special edition of The FASO Show. If you've listened for a while, you already know the drill: near the end of almost every conversation, we ask our guest some version of the same question. What advice would you give to someone w...

Join our next FASO Show Live! https://artists.boldbrush.com/p/the-faso-show Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com -- For today's episode, we sat down with Kate Van Doren, a multidisciplinary artist and registered art therapist of over 25 years, for a conversation packed with hard-won advice for artists building a sustainable creative life. Kate shares how...

Join our next FASO Show Live! https://artists.boldbrush.com/p/the-faso-show Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com -- Most artists don't plan to teach. They plan to paint. To show. To sell. Teaching comes later; sometimes out of necessity, sometimes out of desperation, and sometimes almost by accident. But here's what every artist in today's episo...

Join our next FASO Show Live! https://artists.boldbrush.com/p/the-faso-show Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com -- For today's episode we sat down with Robert Goldman an American painter with over 50 years of experience, known for his vibrant, design-conscious canyon and landscape works, and his deep roots in plein air and illustration. He shares his jou...

Join our next FASO Show Live! https://artists.boldbrush.com/p/the-faso-show Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com -- Every artist knows the romanticized version of the life of the artist: the gallery shows, the canvas, the hours of creation. But the artists who actually make it will tell you something different. They'll tell you about the days when they di...

Join our next FASO Show Live! https://artists.boldbrush.com/p/the-faso-show Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com -- For today's episode we sat down with fine artist Tony D'Amico. Tony is a full-time representational painter and draftsman based in southern Connecticut whose work spans cityscapes, landscapes, coastal scenes, interiors, and everyday loc...

Join our next FASO Show Live! https://artists.boldbrush.com/p/the-faso-show Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com -- To start off the season, we sat down with fine artist and former software developer Maureen Dunlap. Maureen shares how a childhood immersed in traditional oil painting, guided by mentor Arthur Maynard, eventually wound its way through typography,...

Join our next FASO Show Live! https://artists.boldbrush.com/p/the-faso-show Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com -- For our season 14 finale, we sat down with artist and veteran art-marketing writer, Lori Woodward. Lori shares how she went from burnout after art school to rebuilding her skills through workshops, portrait commissions, and writing for major maga...

Join our next FASO Show Live! https://artists.boldbrush.com/p/the-faso-show Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com -- For today's episode, we sat down with Ned Mueller, an American artist and longtime illustrator-turned-fine-painter, known for his strong drawing, expressive plein air and figurative work, and decades of teaching and mentoring artists around...

Join our next FASO Show Live! https://artists.boldbrush.com/p/the-faso-show Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com -- For today's episode we sat down with Jennifer Balkan, a contemporary representational oil painter and art instructor based in Austin, with an academic background in behavioral neuroscience and sociology. She describes how a lifelong love of...

Join our next FASO Show Live! https://artists.boldbrush.com/p/the-faso-show Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com -- On today's episode we sat down with Sarkis Antikajian. Born in 1933 in Amman, Jordan, Sarkis discovered French Impressionism and Van Gogh as a teenager — a spark that never left him. He immigrated to the United States at 25, spent 35 years a...

Join our next FASO Show Live! https://artists.boldbrush.com/p/the-faso-show Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com --- What does it actually mean to make it as an artist? We’re not talking about the bubblegum advice you find on Instagram. We’re talking about the real work of being an artist; the day-in, day-out marathon; the changing goals artists experience as...

Join our next FASO Show Live! https://artists.boldbrush.com/p/the-faso-show Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com Get over 50% off your first year on your artist website with FASO: FASO.com/podcast --- For today's episode, we sat down with Todd Williams, a Nebraska-born impressionistic oil painter who discovered his calling as a child, went on to study at...

Join our next FASO Show Live! https://artists.boldbrush.com/p/the-faso-show Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com Get over 50% off your first year on your artist website with FASO: FASO.com/podcast --- For today's episode we sat down with Linda Doll, an 84‑year‑old lifelong multimedia artist. Linda shares how a childhood spent drawing in Brooklyn and study...

Join our next FASO Show Live! https://artists.boldbrush.com/p/the-faso-show Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com Get over 50% off your first year on your artist website with FASO: FASO.com/podcast --- For today's episode, we sat down with Tanner Steed, a Denver-based oil painter and instructor who built a full-time career through self-directed classical t...

Join our next FASO Show Live! https://artists.boldbrush.com/p/the-faso-show Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com Get over 50% off your first year on your artist website with FASO: FASO.com/podcast --- For today's episode we sat down with Alyse Firefly Russell, a figurative painter whose work blends realism with surreal, colorful, often floral elements, a...

Join our next FASO Show Live! https://artists.boldbrush.com/p/the-faso-show Learn the magic of marketing  with us here at BoldBrush! boldbrushshow.com Get over 50% off your first year on your artist website with FASO: FASO.com/podcast --- On today's episode we sat down with James McGrew, a landscape oil painter and longtime interpretive Yosemite park ranger whose representational landscapes a...