Art Horse

In this episode:

• Updates: the kiln works! the boat works! the yard... works!
• Gnarled, magical gardens all start somewhere, right?
• Women's fair: if I get to decide how I want to feel, I'll spend 10 hours with my back to the audience
• Surviving (thriving?) square dance practice

I mention 

• Paul Silveria's "Old Time Dance Party": https://paulsilveria.bandcamp.com/album/old-time-dance-party-full-album-and-...

A post-skunk solo walk.

• Maybe you can't make something (community) from nothing (no community)
• Spirited and joyful fiddle energy, plus the opposite (hunch-backed and wide-eyed)
• Finally, we're learning to call barn dances. By signing up to call a barn dance.

I mention:

• Contra Calling: A Basic Text by Tony Parkes
• Old Time Dance Party by Paul Silveria
• 13 Ways to Kill Your Community by Doug Griffiths
• 1000 Hours Outside p...

A walking episode:

• Man was I ever burnt out just now
• Refilling the creative well with classes and books
• A childhood home remembered, a map made
• Letting kids use the Good Paint
• Taking another crack at that damn quilt

I mention A GREAT MANY THINGS in this episode:

• Fluent Forever pronunciation trainers
• Anki, the flashcard app
• The Good Ship Illustration Picturebook Course
• Martin Salisbury, author of 100 Great Children's Picture...

A walking episode: January in review!! In which we did 5 events in 10 days (wtf?), including Life Drawing and Still Life painting.

In this episode

• Apparently nobody comes to anything in January, even if they did in December
• Sell your early work, QUICK before you become a different person
• How do you teach someone to love something?
• Becoming a gym girlie in your thirties (maybe)

I mention:

• Syllabus by Lynda Barry
• Painting Portra...

A walking episode with *GASP* a microphone! Thanks Greg! Lots of old stuff comes back around in this episode.

• Getting a baby-size sweater pattern by scaling down and hitting "Print"
• "Color Notes" and painting colours not things
• Confidence and competence over time, with practice? WHAT!?

I mention:

• Didi pullover by Fibre Mood: https://www.fibremood.com/en/patterns/707-didi-pullover
• Good Ship Illustration (f...

Kristen Egan is a mixed media artist – primarily gourds, wood, and paper clay – based somewhere in the woods of Pennsylvania. Her folkloric and characterful masks drip with personality and take illustration 3 dimensional. See her work on Instagram at kristeneganart. You can hear more from Kristen in episode 126 and 130!

This episode is so good! And also there's a little bit of background fuzz but I'm practicing i...

And here we are within it. In this walking episode, some successes and their accompanying fears.

• What if you could get paid to just show up and be yourself?? well then I wouldn't have time for anything else like another kid or taking my stuff to the dump so I'd better not
• Maybe have a snack and give yourself a little break from the intensity of hating your own work
• Some ideas for visual artists to overcome art block

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In this walking episode:

• That oil painting class emboldened me
• Polka disaster
• I was born to be a fiddler in an old-time string band?
• A revelation: what if life after social media just keeps getting bigger? and better???

I mention:

• Paul Silveria (square/folk dancing): https://paulsilveria.bandcamp.com/album/old-time-dance-party-full-album-and-booklet
• Coffee Coffee Cake from "Dessert Person" by Claire Saffitz
• The Coura...

Gabrielle is a learning and development coordinator in a small town in BC - and she got married this summer! In this episode we talk about planning the wedding she never let herself dream about, planning events to match your values, and reclaiming girlhood.

• You can do what you WANT
• ..... and how do you know do you want?
• A "full reset" isn't real
• It's never too late to learn to paint your nails (if you want to!)
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Emily Schanowski (from episode 84) returns to us as a full-time artist, now based in Appleton, WI. Moving to Appleton has been a big juicy change and now she's making her own markets and (finally!!) making zines! In this episode:

• making an art market in an eager and supportive community
• paying it forward with vendor mentorship
• a book binding class as a catalyst for finally making zines
• what do you do when your heart says yes b...

A walking episode, featuring

• ego obliteration and recovery
• fear does not keep you safe
• the "not so bad" trick
• you're (I'm) acting like it's life or death and it ain't
• do I... learn to shuffle?

This episode mentions

• Sarah J. Maas: https://sarahjmaas.com/ 
• Shuffle inspo: https://youtu.be/emcVExxKJFU
• Solo jazz competition (see what I mean? I was in the crowd and saw this one live!): https://youtu.be/F...

FINALLY A WALK! Some recent inspiration while carrying a big baby and walking a different big baby (the dog).

Topics include:

• Oil paint inspo-timidation (and giving it a shot anyway)
• A short list of things that are Not Better
• Continued jamming
• Making friends in a small town is maybe like thrift shopping
• Dipping a toe into a new therapist (...... ew)

I mention:

• Oil painter Audrey Elaine Garwood
• Painting Into the Light ...

Caitlin McIver is a sculptural ceramicist based in Seattle, WA. We last heard from Caitlin in episode 122, where she was wondering how to do more ceramics and less... other stuff – AND SHE'S FIGURED IT OUT!!

A few big thoughts from this episode:

• (re: jobs, residencies) if I have to hear "no", I'm going to at least apply to things I care about (and apply to so many things I forget what I applied to)
• Jo...