Make The Art No One Is Asking For with Jeff Musser

About this episode

Jeff Musser discusses the importance of creating art that may not be requested by others.

Nobody is asking you to make your art. Jeff Musser thinks that’s exactly why you have to make it anyway. Jeff is a Northern California figurative painter who builds images from collage, family photographs, sketches, and historical source material. We talk about painting as a primal need to make marks, why the studio can feel like a scratch-off ticket you keep buying with your time, and how the best ideas often arrive only after you start. Along the way we bounce off quotes from artists like...

People in this episode

Hosts: Ty Nathan Clark, Nathan Terborg

Guest: Jeff Musser

Topics covered

• art creation
• figurative painting
• collage
• creative process
• artistic inspiration

Keywords

• art
• painting
• collage
• creative process
• inspiration

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