The Messy Studio with Rebecca Crowell
The podcast at the intersection of art, travel, business, philosophy, and life in general.
We found 3 episodes of The Messy Studio with Rebecca Crowell with the tag “cold wax”.
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Episode 270: Rebecca's Interview on Art Ladders Podcast
July 19th, 2024 | 1 hr 3 mins
abstraction, art, cold wax, creativity, interviews, ireland, rebecca crowell, travel
Today’s episode is thanks to Valerie Allen and Armin Mersmann, producers of the podcast, Art Ladders: the Creative Climb. In May, they interviewed Rebecca about her background as an artist, her process, development, teaching, and ideas. Their conversation also delves into the unique characteristics of cold wax medium, and why Rebecca was drawn to develop techniques for its use. Both Val and Armin are artists themselves, and their thoughtful questions led to the wide-ranging and insightful conversation that we are pleased to share with you on this episode.
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Episode 97: Cindy Stapper: Between Realism and Abstraction
November 9th, 2019 | 30 mins 57 secs
art, cold wax, interview, landscape, new mexico, rebecca crowell, travel
New Mexico painter Cindy Stapper discusses her work in which she explores the dichotomy of presence and absence through both realistic and more abstracted approaches to the landscape. Other topics that she and Rebecca talk about include the challenges of change, the pull of the wild Irish landscape, her appreciation of cold wax medium and oil, and the influence of poetry and writing on her work.
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Episode 78: Chilling In The Comfort Zone
June 29th, 2019 | 27 mins 55 secs
art, cold wax, comfort zone, rebecca crowell, self improvement
Boundaries, parameters, comfort zones—there are lots of names for the limits we set for our personal creative explorations. These limitations play both positive and negative roles in our art practice and business and it can be tricky to know the difference. When is a comfort zone serving us well? Would risk-taking instead be more beneficial? Is a narrow focus better than pursuing new ideas? Today we’ll toss around some of these questions --