Interviews

Podcasts

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Susan Nethercote Studio Insider Podcast Episode #46: Faith Evans-Sills Artist Interview

In this episode I’m having a beautiful chat with my friend and fellow artist Susan Nethercote. Susan and I first met when she was a student in one of my very first e-courses that I taught years ago. We discovered that we had a lot in common back then and still do! We chat about:

-The impact of motherhood on a creative practice.

-The development of my book ‘Painting The Sacred Within’.

-Using rituals to connect her creative and spiritual life.

-How running retreats has enhanced my creative flow and how I’ve pivoted during COVID-19

-My advice to emerging artists seeking a career as a professional artist.

-The experience of having an artist partner.

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I Like Your Work Podcast Episode #37: Faith Evans Sills: Creating an Art Practice that Aligns With the Life You Want

In this podcast interview episode we talk about leaving an art epicenter to pursue other avenues, being a mother artist, creating your own business, licensing work, writing books, running retreats, self-care, and a ton of other wonderful topics.

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SHE Quest Podcast Episode #12: How the Master Artist is the Beginner Who Keeps Beginning with Faith Evans-Sills

In this podcast episode we chat all about grounding to grow your art. How I use my painting practice as a way to access the foundation of who I am, and what my art practice looks like on a weekly basis. I break the taboo talking about what a professional artist week looks like :) A great talk for someone who would like to start an art practice but doesn’t know where to begin.

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The Left Brain Artist Podcast: Episode #102 Faith Evans-Sills: Painter, Creative Guide, and Retreat Leader

Listen in on a chat all about my Creative Path and Art Career Journey! “Artist Faith Evans-Sills grew up as a world traveler with her family, and she’s continued that with the art retreats that she teaches in Morocco and Costa Rica. She also teaches online courses, she’s written a book, and she creates beautiful artwork. We talk about her art-filled life, how she’s adjusted things since she’s had kids, and her business collaboration with artist Mati Rose McDonough.”

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The Left Brain Artist Podcast: Episode #154 Faith Evans-Sills: The Time to Try Something New

I chat all about how I’m navigating and pivoting my business during the challenge of the Coronavirus. “Faith Evans-Sills is a painter based in Charleston, South Carolina. She has both a BFA and an MFA, and she has taken her years of painting experience and built a thriving art business. Today you’ll hear Faith talk about how she responded to the shutdown of travel and how it affected her live classes. She also tells us how she is engaging their community of artists with art challenges and new online classes.”

Video Interview

A few years ago I had this beautiful chat as part of an artist interview series….

with Connie Solera of 21 Secrets Studio. We talk all about my journey as an artist, how I’ve woven both motherhood and art together, with a heart for helping women express themselves creatively! I’ve always had a deep understanding that I was destined to be both an artist and a mother. We chat about my winding path to where I am now, how I met my talented husband in art school, and how together we have built a family and a creative life that compliments each other beautifully. Enjoy!

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Collaboration with Lou & Grey

Faith’s paintings were featured on fabric designs for the Anne Taylor Company Lou & Grey.

Books

Along with her book Painting the Sacred Within, Faith has also contributed to the following books:

Color Lab for Mixed-Media Artists

by Deborah Forman

Strengthening your understanding and use of color will make your mixed-media art shine as you complete 52 labs that span painting, collage, drawing, assemblage and more. In Color Lab for Mixed Media Artists, color is explored through multiple lenses-nature, history, psychology, expression-as you work through 52 exciting and approachable projects that explore the infinite potential of the chromatic experience. Artist and color-theory expert Deborah Forman provides you with techniques and instruction. These materials and labs focus primarily on paint and collage, along with experimental projects for book making, sculpture and installation. Work your way through the color spectrum, using the steady beat of color as the guiding framework.

 

Paint Lab: 52 Exercises inspired by Artists, Materials, Time, Place, and Method

by Deborah Forman

Paint Lab is packed with unique and experimental techniques and ideas in painting. This hands-on book is organized into 52 units, which may, but don't need to be explored on a weekly basis. The labs can be worked on in any order, so that you can flip around to learn a new mixed-media technique or be inspired by a particular painting theme or application. The underlying message of this book is that, as an artist, you should learn and gain expertise through experimentation and play. There is no right or wrong result, rather you will find new forms of expression in your work and gain confidence in your skills.

 

Painted Blossoms: Creating Expressive Flower Art with Mixed Media

by Carrie Schmitt

Do you long to cultivate more creative joy in your painting? Flowers are organic, wonderfully forgiving subjects. Each one is unique; you can't paint one wrong! Painted Blossoms will encourage you to welcome creativity with ease as you discover ways to tend the garden within. In addition to watching yourself grow through seven different stepped-out flower projects, you'll learn basic design elements, how to get unstuck from the mud, how to carve your own stamps, cut your own stencils and more.