Artist Jana Oliveira calls her website 2worlds art because she has lived in both Brazil and the United States. She paints with oils, watercolors, acrylics, and even alcohol inks. Her goal is to help women feel joy through art, and she achieves this through her YouTube videos and her podcast called Artistically You. Jana recently moved to Wellington, Florida, which is very close to me.
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Jana Oliveira
Jana’s website is 2worldsart.com
Her Instagram is @jana_2worlds
Jana’s podcast is called Artistically You.
She recommends printful.com for getting prints and products made with your art.
Here are some great takeaways from our conversation:
- When you’re practicing different techniques, use inexpensive paper or art journals. Save your canvases for later.
- Golden makes an Open acrylic paint that dries slower than their Heavy Body paints. Try that acrylic first if you’re used to working with oils which dry very slow.
- Jana recommends some specific brands of paint you may want to try. For oils: Vasari and Gambling. For acrylics: Golden, Nova, and Sennelier abstract acrylic paints.
- She also recommended a good podcast app to try called Overcast. Jana likes it because you can organize all the episodes and podcasts you listen to.
- Books of flowers are good inspiration if flowers are your subject. Jana recommends the Floret Farms books and other flower arranging books, as well as gardening magazines, and following gardeners on Instagram.
- Think of all the costs involved with making and sending prints: the packing materials, mats, envelopes. You may find that it’s cheaper to just use a printing service that will directly ship your prints to your customers.
