Notes From the Voodoo Cafe: Podcast with Deborah Dugan

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Podcast with Deborah Dugan

[I LOVE this photograph! The colors are just perfect.]

Deborah Dugan's drawings and watercolor paintings make me happy. When I first found her blog, the painting of her dog lying in a chair just made me grin, and I knew then that Deborah was one of those people you want to know better. I was right; her enthusiasm for drawing and painting and bookbinding are contagious, and her voice is one I could listen to all day long. To see Deborah's work, visit her blog at Deborah A. Dugan: Occasional thoughts and drawings.

5 comments:

Jeannie said...: Wonderful pod cast! I love her artwork and her approach to drawing. As always, thank you.; Friday, February 18, 2011 12:13:00 PM
Zom said...: I am in the middle of listening to this podcast and enjoying it so much.

Even while I listen, I gotta say I know why university art students don't know how to draw! I have a post-graduate degree in the visual arts and university didn't teach much in terms of drawing or painting skills! Why? Because the teachers largely don't have those skills to teach!

In the 70's or so those traditional painting and drawing skills got thrown out as not important, even old fashioned. So the students didn't receive the tuition, then when those students became teachers they had to continue with the belief that the skills weren't important (part of the 'art is art because I call it that') I remember asking a professor how to paint something and the only answer I got was 'however you want'. I felt a fool for asking.

After receiving my post-graduate degree I had to go to another school to learn the skills! It was a traditional painting school, rare and rather looked down on by the art world.; Saturday, February 19, 2011 4:48:00 PM
Deborah A. Dugan said...: Well that explains a lot! It reminds me of a story told by the teacher of a watercolor workshop I went to years ago. She went off to art school, some time in the late 60s-early 70s, with the idea of becoming a watercolor landscape painter. The trouble was all her teachers in art school were abstract expressionists. Not that there's anything wrong with that of course, but it doesn't help if you want to be a realistic landscape painter. She switched her major to ceramics and worked for 20 years as a potter. The good news is she, like you, sought instruction elsewhere and is now a wonderful watercolorist and workshop teacher! Thanks for listening :-D; Monday, February 21, 2011 7:53:00 AM
Deb's Artful Journey said...: Thanks for this podcast Rice! I thoroughly enjoyed it. You were right, she is so upbeat and fun. BTW, you could stay in your pjs all day... but I'd rather have you doing podcasts!! xo; Thursday, February 24, 2011 7:13:00 PM
Ricë said...: Thank you, sweetie! I posted Keith Lo Bue's today, and I do another tomorrow. And then one on Monday. Or is it Tuesday? Yiiiiiii~~; Thursday, February 24, 2011 8:35:00 PM