The Not-Starving Artist

The Not-Starving Artist

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The Not-Starving Artist episodes

  • Animal portraits with pastel artist Emma Colbert
    Emma Colbert is a pastel artist originally from Northern Ireland, who
    spends her time working on pet and people portraits, as well as nurturing a
    large following on both Youtube and Patreon. Emma also paints her own
    series of wildlife art. Emma is a Unison brand ambassador and has her own
    range of Unison pastels selected specifically for wildlife art.
    48 min
  • Mosaic fine art at its best - with artist Sarah Pryke
    Sarah is a self-taught artist who used a critical, life threatening
    diagnosis as the catalyst for embracing her curiosity and love of nature
    and combining them in a beautiful career as a full time glass and mosaic
    artist. Her background in biology helps her to create her stunningly
    detailed and unique mosaic artwork which is featured in homes, gardens and
    businesses in several countries.
    52 min
  • Pet Portrait Artist Extraordinaire - Andrea Gianchiglia
    Andrea Gianchiglia is a phenomenal, multi-tasking artist who renders pet
    and animal portraits in oils, pastels, watercolours and colour pencils. She
    teacher classes in person, to all ages and in various venues around New
    Jersey, as well as online at Craftsy/Blueprint. Her work also appears in
    Studio 7 Fine Art Gallery. She’s a successful artist, with a varied
    creative business and two young ones to raise as well. To find out how
    Andrea manages it all, click below to listen.
    47 min
  • What does a character designer do? Find out with Maria Lia Malandrino
    Maria Lia Malandrino lives in Turin, Italy. She’s a character designer,
    story artist and illustrator and she’s represented by Illustration Agency
    Advocate Art. Maria has work experience in the UK, Italy and China, and one
    of her Science Communication short films for Oxford University won Best
    Film at the Bristol Science Fair Festival. She’s also worked as a concept
    artist for Indie game projects, two of which won Best Development at the
    Global Game Jam for 2016 and 2017.
    42 min
  • Illustration and Surface Pattern Design with Mel Armstrong
    Mel Armstrong is an illustrator and surface pattern designer, but before
    that she worked as a web designer and graphic artist and before that - she
    was a professional ballerina. Talk about a change of career! However, it
    seems to have been worth it, because her designs can now be found on
    countless products globally, and she’s publishing picture books with New
    Frontier Publishing, Hallmark USA, Oxford University Press, MIKRO and
    Liontree.
    34 min
  • Mixed media art and UPPERCASE cover designer - artist Lucie Duclos
    Lucie Duclos is a mixed media artist, graphic and surface pattern designer,
    illustrator and teacher. She works with a lot of different mediums and
    techniques from pen and ink to watercolor, monoprints, encaustics, collage,
    acrylics and bookmaking. She’s done packaging and illustration work for
    Harry & David, Smith & Hawken, Levis Jeans, Danone and Salesforce among
    others.
    46 min
  • Writing for Children and adults - with Swedish author Elvira Ashby
    Elvira Ashby is an author who writes picture books for children and romance
    novels for adults. She’s also mother of two and a speech therapist who
    loves dancing, having a Swedish fika (coffee and cake) and lots of reading.
    As well as writing for children and adults, she works as a speech therapist
    and this background inspires her children’s books. Elvira writes for
    children under the name “Elvira Ashby” and for grown ups under the name
    “Elvira Berg”.
    45 min
  • What makes a good children's book illustration? Find out with Wen Dee Tan.
    We Dee Tan is a children’s book illustrator and writer. Her debut book,
    Lilli, has been long listed for the Kate Greenway Award and short listed
    for the Klaus Flugge Prize in 2016. She loves writing and illustrating
    books that appeal to both adults and children. When Wen Dee Tan is not
    working on her own books, she’s illustrating educational books. She’s
    currently represented by Mark Gottlieb at Trident Media Group.
    42 min

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Weekly interviews with artists from all genres for an insider look into their creative lives. How do they manage their creativity? Where do they find time for art in between their normal daily…