Watercolor Conversations with Cara Brown
The observations and thoughts of a watercolorist and mentor/teacher to others who are, as she is, devoted to this painting medium. Join Cara for her stories of life and art-making, the intersection inbetween and the wisdom she discovers along the way.
Episodes
32 episodes
Composition - putting it together
Here's an art-making-oriented episode - a practical one. I'm sharing my thoughts on how it is that I decide the form of my paintings - my process of composing a painting. I don't follow rules, I don't even think too much. I...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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14:35
Today is Easter Saturday - Republished
Doing all this myself, this was bound to happen. A big silent space ended up right in the middle. It's now fixed. I'm sharing this one again, with a short intro and update on an interaction I had with the mailman that I...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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14:27
What brings us alive
We get crucial life-fuel from what lights us up. I am here to say that doing what brings us alive is worth the effort to carve out time for. This episode was inspired by a recent experience where I felt this kind of energy - and it ...
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Season 2
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14:29
Starting at the beginning - with paint!
I get really practical in this episode. I share with you the very best way to start out your watercolor experience - as well a great exercise if you've been painting forever and what is in all those tubes is still somewhat a mystery.<...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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15:29
I just don't know
A recording I made in the swirl of uncertainty that so many of us humans are feeling at this time. Speaking for myself - I'm compelled to know - to understand, to be able to predict what will happen. It's a comfort. I...
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12:55
Imaginal Cells
I just discovered a recording I made - and then in the swirl of my life this past summer, I completely forgotten about. It was late one night and I was in the car with the dog, while waiting at the emergency. I was prompted to share it he...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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12:38
Painting in the Present Moment
Recorded early one morning while on vacation at the end of a supercharged summer, sitting on the shores of Lake Tahoe. A rare moment of solitude on vacation, shared with you, including reflections on my experience of committing to paint e...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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13:20
The power of commitment
A short-ish episode to update you on how my 92 Days of Watercolor are going, amidst a life that suddenly became very full of everything else besides art. While recording the previous episode I was inspired to spontaneously make a c...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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7:50
Commitment and Creative Confidence
In this episode I share some fresh thoughts about something that I was left wondering about at the time I was writing my online journal every week. Something came to me early one morning that I jumped out of bed to share. It...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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10:43
Trusting your own rhythm
Another episode exploring the challenge of time and attention for our creative work in our lives. I take the "both-and" point of view in debates. We do need to corral ourselves to get to our studios, *and* there are natural rhythms ...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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13:43
Easter Saturday
This is a calendar time-specific episode, though the ideas are applicable for any time in life. I wrote a journal entry in the spring of 2016 when I was in a place of sorrow that coinsided with Holy Week - between Palm Sunday and Easter.&...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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12:12
The Case for Beauty
What is beauty - how is it part of life on earth? And most importantly what is its impact on us - and does it matter? These are the questions I ponder and muse upon in this episode. The story of the restorative weekend...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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15:54
Blessed Unrest
I took inspiration from something that Martha Graham famously said. Humans can be blessed by a certain unrest, by an inner disturbance, of sorts, that causes us to take action to make stuff happen in the world. It had me clean up my...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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13:54
You get to decide
I'm here to support and encourage each of us to follow our own breadcrumbs towards our art. There are strong opinions about whether or not making art based on photos ought to be done. As with all aspects of art-making whether or not...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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16:11
It's All About the Water
I'm trying something different with this episode. I thought I'd offer some "how it works" insights I have about the very basics of watercolor - the water! There isn't a journal post from my website to point you to with the same gene...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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18:27
Finding it hard to focus?
Focusing - in order to get stuff done - is more natural for some of us than others. In this episode I take a look at how this is and offer a point of view for those of us who lack the natural abiltiy to easily shut out the world - and the...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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13:32
Like Potatoes on Mars
The story behind the environment that has been created through gathering with watercolor artists and students over these past dozen years - and how surrounding ourselves with this kind of support impacts the art we make.This eposi...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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13:05
Why do we paint?
Examining the "why" that has us do whatever we do is an interesting and potenitally powerful exercise. I look at this idea with regard to what drives my/our painting efforts - with a little Henry Miller thrown in for fun and inspiration!<...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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13:22
A room of one's own
In this episode I explore the relationship between our inner and outer rooms - that is the space inside that holds aspects of ourselves - especially our creative parts - and the places outside where we actually do our creating. It's about...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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14:17
Getting Personal
I am a let's-get-personal-kind-of-person. I am oriented subjectively - in pretty much all aspects of my life - but this is especially so in my art-making life. In this episode I make the case for giving ourselves the permission to g...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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13:28
Painting the Truth
Two incidents, two days in a row had me go looking for something I'd written, and wisdom I'd shared from other sources, that reminded me of the full story behind the protestations that arose in me from each of these two interactions. This...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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13:51
Because there are paintings in us
It's been a busy, distracted and chaotic-feeling year so far. And I've not been painting much at all! I went searching through my posts for inspiration and wisdom that *I* needed to hear in this moment to get re-connected with my painting...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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15:06
Painting the Light
The illusion of light in our paintings is a magical thing. Using just contrast of and dark and the subtleties of relative lights and darks in between, we can create a world. In this episode, hear how in response to a short question,...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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13:08