Waiting To Dry

We meet with Carl Dobsky at BACAA in San Carlos to talk about he started teaching, his connection to Massive Black, bridging the gap between cast drawing and concept art, and we dive deep into narrative! Josh and Carl compare their approaches to building narrative, Carl talks about his path to learning about visual storytelling, depicting action to tell the story, and “implied resolution.” We had a lot of fun in Sergio’s Question Corner! Look out for his 3-person show with Shawn Barber and Coro coming June 13th to Maxwell Alexander Gallery in LA.   Get 20% off of Artwork Archive by going to www.artworkarchive.com/waiting.

Today’s mini-episode topics include archivalness, what we would do with 400 years to live, if we would paint our significant other as they were on their deathbed, and hating on copycats. This episode is sponsored by Artwork Archive! Get 20% off by going to www.artworkarchive.com/waiting.

The bad boyz of art podcasting are back! We talk about why most art podcasts are bad, Sergio talks about his San Diego trip and the horror of party brunches, cooking as a metaphor for art, Josh’s art party from Saturday, clarifying Sergio’s work ethic, Josh’s art trade show idea, being turned off by style in art, Josh’s heroics, answer a listener question about mural pricing, Josh’s altercation with a tweaker, and more.  Check out Sergio’s new painting at Modern Eden Gallery March 7th 2020.  Get 20% off of Artwork Archive by going to www.artworkarchive.com/waiting.

In today’s mini-episode, we discuss Kobe Bryant’s work ethic and whether it applies to artists, answer a question about gear weight while traveling for plein air, artists capitalizing on celebrity deaths, Ludacris’s All Star Game sweater, and another rant on Jim Carrey being a terrible artist. Find us on iTunes, and rate us review us or hate us!

The boys from Waiting To Dry host the 2nd Annual Wacademy Awards! Josh add Sergio hand out praise and rants like so many Woscars! Along with the best movies, performances, and directors, they also award their guilty pleasures, comedies, superhero movies, TV shows and worst movies of 2019! We end with a discussion about if actors and actresses should have separate award categories and sound hella woke! Please give us a rating or let us know what your favorite movies of 2019 were!

We talk to Kamille Corry after her workshop at BACAA in San Carlos, CA. She talks about her one-way ticket to Florence to study, the difference between university and atelier learning, her desire to sculpt and go back to Italy, her role in the Utah art scene, learning to sell artwork on her own, studying Islamic design, what she wants her art to sound like, and wraps up by going through Sergio’s Question Corner! Check out the end of the episode if you are interested in studying with Kamille! @KamilleCorry Instagram

MJ Lindo-Lawyer joins us on the mini-episode and asks us about our childhood celebrity crushes(really just an excuse to out Josh’s childhood crush). She also asks us if we could create a quality art show with bad materials. We talk about our painting process a bit and discuss painting backgrounds. We end with a rant against political art, and generic local art. Catch MJ on Instagram at @mjlindo.

MJ Lindo-Lawyer joins the show today and we talk about trying to get popular in 2020, back pain, MJ and Josh making steps toward becoming full-time artists and how they handle problems differently, and more. Can math prove art is good or bad? Is there math in storytelling? We then switch gears and talk about recent movies and TV shows we watched. We discuss “Mid 90’s,” “Jojo Rabbit,” Oscar nominees, and why “Fargo” might be the best TV show ever. MJ discusses “Don’t F With Cats(spoiler alert!)”, and asks which 3 movies impacted our childhood the most! Josh finds out how Forrest Gump affected his art! We end with MJ asking which TV show impacted our childhood the most! Let us know yours! Find MJ on Instagram at @mjlindo.

We kick off this mini-episode by talking about the infamous new sound clip. The topic discussed this week is criticism: Is it a skill to take it? How were we when we first started getting critiqued? What is good and bad criticism? We answer the question of what artist from history would we like to see depict the modern world. We talk about how Josh hates getting gifts from Amazon, and other Christmas-related things way too long after the holidays! Merr’ Crimmuh everyone!

For the last show of the year, we talk about NYE plans, how artists are remembered after death, improving as an artist while being famous, matte finishes, and more. Sergio presents the list of his top 10 paintings of 2019 with his reasons why he chose them. We then discuss the article titled, “The Unfair Truth About How Creative People Succeed” and Josh goes off on ‘gatekeepers.’ We finish off by listing the top ten most downloaded episodes of 2019. Josh shares a little behind-the-scenes story about driving Nate Van Dyke home, and we finish with Josh learning about a very special sound clip! Paintings from Sergio's 2019 Top Ten (click on the links to follow along) Jose Luis Cena  Colleen Barry  Quang Ho Zoey Frank Stephen Early  Jeff Hein  Soey Milk  James Jean  Mia Bergeron  Jacob Aguiar 

It’s Mini Episode 2! For our deep-dive topic, we discuss naivete and the illusion of predicted success as an art career, we answer the question about how we would like to be remembered 100 years from now, Sergio asks Josh to describe the 10 hot-seat artists to people who don’t know artist names, and more! Want to ask us a question or suggest a deep-dive topic? Email us at joshandsergio@waitingtodry.com! (or podcastaboutart@gmail.com)

The first ever open studio episode! Sergio had an open studio episode on Saturday, and we decided to record an episode live with an audience of whoever decided to walk through the doors! Guest starring Vanessa Walsh, Robert Howard, and Andrea Kendall! We talk about the duct tape banana and why visual art is not judged objectively, unforgivable taste, abstract art(more Jackson Pollack bashing), and more! We also critique a listener’s Instagram account, and Andrea hangs out in Sergio’s Question Corner! Check out Vanessa’s work at @compassroseartistry and Andrea’s at @andreakendallart.

This week we are debuting our new episode format of the podcast! We talk about what we’re doing for these episodes and why, discuss freedom vs security, talk about album cover art we like and why, and finish with talking about why Josh’s Roseland mural is getting painted over!

Josh and MJ Lindo sit down with Joshua Flint during their trip to Portland. They get a quick background into where Joshua Flint has lived before diving into Josh's intent when creating work, how he determines a title, The relationships he has with galleries and collectors. Finding a home for his art and so much more! you can find his work on instagram @studioflint or at his website www.joshuaflint.com  

Josh and Sergio sit down together to talk about the fun of new relationships, another Sonoma County fire, podcasts they like, differences in how they build narratives, looking for more from models, the challenges of working on murals together, artist processes that make no sense, changes in Sergio’s career direction, middle names, Shia LeBouf, trolling and more. Find Sergio’s paintings at Beyond Eden Art Fair in Anaheim, November 22-24, and Context Miami art fair December 3rd-8th.

New episode coming soon! Until then, enjoy this classic underrated throwback with our friend Chris Leib! One of our personal favorites to record. Originally released June 5th, 2018. IG: @chrisleibart

Another solo ep! We talked about the snafu that was before the recording of episode 86, getting into daily painting, Serge Gay Jr.'s and Jose Luis Cena's SF solo shows, Josh's piece titled "Send Your Son To Die," if paintings gain value by changing hands, going all-in as a professional artist, Alec Monopoly, and answer some listener questions:    Is it worth starting a Youtube page?  What did we think of each other when we first met?  Which artist brain would we step into for a day?    Check out Josh's newest paintings at Stone Sparrow Gallery in NYC, and Palette Gallery in San Francisco. Check out Sergio’s coaster drawings at Nucleus Portland and upcoming paintings at Beyond Eden Art Fair in Anaheim and Context Art Miami.   This episode is sponsored by Trekell Professional Art Supplies! Go to www.trekell.com, use the code “WTD10” and enjoy 10% off of your order of brushes, panels and apparel!  

This week we traveled to Jet Martinez's Oakland home to talk with him about letting your kids be kids, murals vs fine art, street art vs graffiti, the artist's hand in the whole process, competition between spouses, a universal folk art style, cultural identity, pettiness and more. We bring back Sergio's Question Corner! Find all things Jet at his Instagram @jetmar1. This episode is sponsored by Trekell Professional Art Supplies! Go to www.trekell.com, use the code “WTD10” and enjoy 10% off of your order of brushes, panels and apparel!  

Nate Van Dyke (@69n8vandyke) introduces us to his new studio mate Paul Hermann(@premier_coup)! They talk about working together in video games, share @elcoro36 stories, tips on shooting models, artists you like doing things you don't, hesitation about changing styles, peeing in the studio sink, artwork pricing talk, selling art online vs selling in galleries, boring Instagram posts, and more. This episode is sponsored by Trekell Professional Art Supplies! Go to www.trekell.com, use the code “WTD10” and enjoy 10% off of your order of brushes, panels and apparel!

Emilio Villalba(@emilio_villalba) returns to the podcast with Tamsin Smith (@slipstreamer11) to talk about their new collaborative project they are working on together! Every Sunday they get together at Matt Gonzalez(@mattgonzalez_collage)’s studio and paint on canvases together. They talk about the self-imposed limitations that make the collaboration unique, letting go of ego and expectations, understanding poetry, Tamsin’s art reviews, collaborating “politely,” and more. Tamsin’s books are titled Word Cave and Between First And Second Sleep. Their November shows will be at Adobe Books in San Francisco. This episode is sponsored by Trekell Professional Art Supplies! Go to www.trekell.com, use the code "WTD10" and enjoy 10% off of your order of brushes, panels and apparel!