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Hi, I am the son of two artists and began painting in my hometown of Richmond, Virginia before I could walk. I was a rare combination of artist and athlete so I moved to Los Angeles in 2008 to play football for USC. I left the team my sophomore year to focus on painting and filmmaking, applying the same focus and discipline from my football career to my art. I primarily work in oils, and spend most free days painting "en plein air" in my new home of Sarasota Florida.

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[bradad]

For me, your style comes from within and developing your foundational skills and fundamental processes will allow creative authenticity to be revealed. Your individual artistic voice or vision is a result of joining together medium, subject and technique in a way that means something to you.

[PaintingWithYovette]

I have watched a lot of teachers, and I must say you have an excellent way of teaching. I do not paint in your style, but love what you are sharing with your talent. Great advice for everyone no matter what medium they paint with. I enjoy listening to what you have to say. Thank you for sharing. 💖

[carlaephotography]

Very helpful words of wisdom. Paint what you like and work on getting better. Not think about finding my speciality right off. This takes a lot of pressure off. I just need to paint more.
I am a western lifestyle photographer...and learning more about how to paint with watercolors. I have found in the painting field of horses and cowgirls and cowboys, there are many who already do it. Sometimes this overwhelms me with wanting to paint it. As I feel the competition is so great. I look at their work and wonder if I could learn to be as creative or as good. Anyway, what I am saying is I forget to love what I am doing, and need to stop worrying about end results at this phase. I just need to paint. Thanks for the straight forward talk!!

[johnhoffmanpaintings]

this is sooo true. I also use all different mediums like pencil, charcoal, oils, pastels, acrylic and also digital and this is what I have found is that I paint different with all these so I couldnt seem to find a style, after years of not really having one and not trying to force it, I paint more happy.

[wwanderful]

I enjoy your talks while showing a painting in progress. Thanks for including the source and the pallet. I have learned so much from you. You are a great motivator.

[powderriverfarrier]

Cool thing about listening to Chris is that you get straightforward unadulterated no BS advice that pretty much applies no matter what your skill level is..

[hotlineoperator]

Good episode. In addition, my own experience is that the motivation for doing comes after starting.

[jeffwong]

I think the advice of Enjoying the process of working on a subject and just do mentality is Great !

[charlottewall]

You are the man! Love your videos. Due to ailments it's to hard to do landscapes in person, lucky for me I have a nice space to paint. So you are helping me get my skill back after years of being on the sidelines I'm determined to paint everyday.

[peaceluvagstudios]

I am so glad you brought that up. That’s exactly how I feel, however I am more interested in trying my hand at new styles and subject matters than trying to nail down one particular thing. I took a risk at the beginning of Covid and put my work on Instagram and have felt like I’m doing okay so long as I keep at it. That’s my only goal for now is to challenge myself to keep going and try new techniques and if something looks good in the end, then that’s a bonus. Thanks for all of the great videos.

[nakedanunnaki]

Excellent advice!!!
Greetings from Cape Town South African 👍

[edbianchi]

Thaaank you !!!!. So true and simple. I can now relax and keep painting and trying my best

[KathyBrooksArt]

Great message here, thanks for putting it out here. I needed to hear it!!

[freedomec]

I took my first oil painting class at the Florida Keys Community College. The instructor was Marcia Ream who was trained at the Chicago School of Art. She treated us ragtag bunch of older folks like we were in real art school. I will always be grateful to her. This was in 1998 or so. But, she never painted with us or showed us her style because she didn't want us to copy her. She wanted us to figure it out ourselves.

[msvalarnett]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge! I’m back to oils now that the nest is empty!

[timothybarker]

I really like your videos and the way you teach and feel good positive approach to making people want to go out and paint and learn as they go. I've been following and taking notes on what you say. I've got all the notes and supplies now I just got to get up the nerves and do it. Keep posting. I am hoping to build up the confidence and start.

[conham]

This is fantastic information! You have an uncanny way of getting straight to the heart of matters and a very straightforward way of approaching painting....AND...you can identify how to overcome the barriers that stop us from being BETTER ARTISTS! Love your channel. So very, very helpful to me.

[Polecat]

You always manage to surprise me with how much sense you talk even when I am ready to disagree with anything you say I find myself nodding in agreement with you every time :)

[coloradomark]

Brush mileage will make the day. I heard it said, after your first 3000 paintings you are ready to start. Thanks Coach!

[InterstellarModeler]

great advice. Thanks for this. I've been doing just that...bouncing around and it's gotten overwhelimg and confusing. Appreciate you sharing this. What I'd like to do is build up basic skills and a foundation of techniques so that I can build from there.