http://www.cheapjoes.com -- Welcome to Cheap Joe's Test Studio!
JM: I'm Joe from Cheap Joe's and I'm here tonight with Bob Burridge.
We've had the best couple of weeks here.
BB: We're in trouble already I can tell.
JM: Bob taught a workshop here two weeks ago. This week he has done a DVD on his painting and work and a DVD on marketing that will be available very soon. Bob, we're just so glad to have you here.
BB: I'm happy to be here.
JM: Everybody in your class just loves it. I'm telling you. They just
rave about your class and I just don't get it.
BB: I don't get it either.
JM: You'll have to help me. What is it?
BB: I throw a lot of water on them. I'm trying to put a whole lot of
water on this but it still hasn't grown yet. We get them to paint the
way they've always wanted to paint. You can take a lot of art lessons
and read all the books but that's somebody else's techniques. I try to
get them to paint the way they have always wanted to paint.
JM: I've sat in your class and watched. You have a way of bringing the
very best out in people. I know you're humble and you're going to say
no but you really do. You make all of us want to go buy all of this
stuff and do the things you do.
BB: Well, you know, again I try to get them to relax. Actually we goof
around as you can possibly tell here.
JM: Oh yeah, so much laughter.
BB: Well, we laugh because it makes you feel a little more creative,
not so uptight. I remind them to breathe beacuse there's no one right
way of doing this whole thing. I say I want you to paint the way you've
always wanted to paint. And I show them some techniques that work for
me and I'm goofing around all the time too. They see me laughing and
goofing with them and hopefully it makes them relax a little more too.
JM: In your class they actually take home finished paintings.
BB: Yeah, we only paint for a couple of hours. But in a couple of hours
they take pieces home. We've actually had people come in from the
street, belive it or not, they come in from the street and they come
right up to the students and they say "I want to buy that". And they
buy their paintings right in the class. They take them home and they're
still wet. It pays for their workshop which is kind of great. It's all
about self esteem anyway.
JM: We're working this week in acrylic?
BB: We're doing mostly acrylic. If it dissolves in water, we're going
to paint with it.
JM: Very good. Well you do a great job. Now, you tell us about your
website. You have a newsletter? I love your newsletter.
BB: It comes up every month. Kate, my wife and marketing manager, we
love to write it. I usually write it when I'm 3,300 feet in the air
when its quiet in the airplanes. But we have a newsletter, it comes out
every month. It automatically comes up on your screen. It's
robertburridge.com. You type that in an it comes up on the screen and
you can sign in and log on and get that newsletter.
JM: What's the news called now?
BB: Am I really allowed to say it here? We don't take ourselves too
serisously. We call it "Artsy Fartsy News".
JM: I love it, what a great name.
BB: Well, we laugh and so there you know we don't take ourselves too
seriously. It's real light hearted. In the newsletter we do a couple
studio techniques.
Kate will write an article about art marketing. There's a section
called Ask Kate.
JM: I went on today to your site and I was amazed. 80 million people
had logged on today. That is great.
BB: Well, I have my piece of the pie and I want other students and
painters out there to get their piece of the pie too. I'm one of the
fortunate ones to come down here to Cheap Joe's and paint. I've been
doing this now for how many years?
JM: Golly...
BB: And you're still talking to me!
JM: Still tickled to death to have you here.
BB: The best part is of course it's like a kid in a candy store. You
paint in one room and you run over there and buy more art materials.
And right now there's sale so you know. . . They pay me to do this as you know. Well, are you going to pay me this time?
JM: No, not this time. We're paying Kate. You made a comment that
there is a direct correlation between being a really good artist and
the amount of material you buy in the store.
BB: If you buy at least $5,000 worth of paint you might get through the
first week and do a couple good paintings. But it only lasts for about
a week.
JM: I just love it.
BB: Then you got to go back and buy more. I also start collecting
coupons for me, cause you are so cheap. There's a reason you got that
name.
JM: It has been great having you here, Bob. Thank you for being here.
BB: I love being here, thanks Joe. Appreciate it.
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Wes Waugh-Painting Wet into Wet (Part 3)by cheapjoes1,219 views
Brilliant! That is how Art should be FUN!!!
Roytheartist 1 year ago
WHAT sale?
bunz11 2 years ago