HeyJaredTuesday Art Chat with Kerri
Join artist Kerri Dixon each week for a down-to-earth, inspiring chat about all things art—from creative confidence and pastel tips to studio routines, selling your work, and finding inspiration in everyday life.
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Keep Going by Austin Kleon - creative lessons for artists (opens the original)
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Kerri shares a practical book chat on Austin Kleon’s Keep Going , focusing on how artists can stay creative when time is tight, motivation dips, and life gets noisy. This episode is especially useful if you want simple, repeatable ways to keep making art without waiting for the perfect mood or perfect schedule. In this episode, Kerri explores how the book’s ideas apply to real artistic life, from routines and lists to play, gifts, and seasonal creativity. She also reflects on what it means to ke
Mary Cassatt, pastel, and the art of knowing when to stop (opens the original)
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Kerri Dixon takes listeners back to the 1800s for another Meet the Masters episode, focusing on Mary Cassatt and the practical lessons her work offers modern artists. The episode is especially useful for pastel artists, but the takeaways apply just as much to composition, mark making, and deciding where detail belongs. Kerri explores how Cassatt balanced smooth blending with loose, visible strokes, used colored paper as part of the artwork, and made ordinary domestic scenes feel worthy of seriou
From Photo to Artwork (opens the original)
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How to Take Reference Photos With a Painting in Mind In this episode, Kerri Dixon explains how wildlife artists can move beyond “good photos” and start collecting reference images that actually support a stronger painting. She shares a practical way to see, capture, and design compositions, using her own zoo photography and studio editing process as examples.The focus is on reference photos, composition, and lighting, with a clear message: the camera records the scene, but the artist makes the p
Portrait Artists of the Year Australia and the Myth of Making Art the Hard Way (opens the original)
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KerriDixon talks about what she learned from watching Portrait Artists of the Year Australia and why it challenged her assumptions about how “proper” portrait art is made. The episode is a reminder that tools like photos, grids, iPads, tracing, and mixed media are not shortcuts to avoid real art, but practical parts of the creative process.In this episode, Kerry connects portraiture practices to wildlife art, showing how the same principles apply when your subject moves, changes light, or won’t
Are Muddy Colours a Bad Thing (opens the original)
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In this episode, Kerri Dixon breaks down muddy colours, why they happen, and why they are not always a problem. She uses practical examples from wildlife and nature art to show how complementary colours, value, and careful observation can make colour mixing feel much simpler. Kerri also gives a clear method for choosing colours without memorizing the whole colour wheel - start with the right colour family, then ask what is wrong with the colour you have and make one small adjustment at a time. K
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