How do you tell a story with a single image? How does color and composition affect your story? Find out these creative secrets and more in this interview with artist Heather Stadler.

Paintings were once the best and only way to capture a visual idea or moment. Less objective than a photograph, a painting interprets the world with each and every brush stroke.

Heather Stadler is a painter living just outside of Seattle, Washington. She grew up in Las Vegas getting her start as an artist by pausing and drawing from Disney’s The Little Mermaid. She’s done extensive training at the Gage Academy of Art. Her work has been exhibited all over San Francisco and Seattle.

Storytelling through Painting tips we cover in this episode of Beginning Middle End Story Podcast:

• 00:00 Meet artist Heather Stadler
• 01:06 Broadly speaking, what makes a good story?
• 01:33 How do you tell a story with a single image vs series?
• 03:08 How do you develop a painting idea?
• 03:49 Discussion of Journey series
• 09:04 Discussion of ocean animal series
• 11:04 How do you use composition in your paintings?
• 12:55 Talk about how you use color to tell a story?
• 15:58 What’s your favorite painting by another artist?
• 18:25 What’s something you know now that you wished you knew when you started painting?
• 19:46 What’s a subject that you haven’t yet addressed in your work that you plan to or would like to at some point?
• 23:04 What’s your best piece of storytelling advice?

You can find out more about Heather’s work at https://www.heatherstadler.com or follow her on instagram

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