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Today’s guest is Carrie Brummer from www.artiststrong.com. Carrie was originally an art teacher in school but then moved into a more administrative position. She started a blog about art in her spare time and discovered that people all over the world wanted to learn to draw and paint. That blog later became known as www.artiststrong.com where Carrie formed a community and taught people to draw through her online courses.
Carrie has a free masterclass “How to master art foundations without going to school: 3 strategies for the self-taught artist which you can find at Kickinthecreatives.com/Carrie scroll down to the bottom of that page
Barbara by Carrie Brummer – background features 200 hours of embroidery
Close up of embroidery
Carrie talks about:
- Her journey to becoming an artist
- Her process of creating art – Carrie likes to include embroidery in her paintings
- How she switched from teaching art in school to teaching online
- How she started and developed her online community ‘Artist Strong’
- Tips for how you can improve your drawing or painting
- Tips on building a creative habit
The book Carrie mentions about people building their skills to become an expert is “Peak by Anders Ericsson” Carrie used this theme as a basis for her free challenge “Drawing Drills”
The author that Carrie mentions who writes about putting aside a small amount of time a day is Sam Bennett. Her book is called “Get It Done: From Procrastination to Creative Genius in 15 Minutes a Day”
Some of Carrie’s favourite artists are Mark Rothko, Ashley Longshore and CJ Hendry
Find out more about Carrie Brummer
You can find out more about Carrie at her website www.artiststrong.com where you can also find her Free Resources – Drawing Bootcamp and Find Your Voice Mini Course
Carrie has a free masterclass “How to master art foundations without going to school: 3 strategies for the self-taught artist
You can see more of Carrie’s paintings at her art website www.carriebrummer.com
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