Art Horse

Apr 09 2025 158 ep. 69 mins 61
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A silly and serious podcast about creativity and stepping out of your comfort zone.

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148. Building the barn dance while flying it

Apr 09 2025 59 mins  
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 ParkesOld Time Dance Party by Paul Silveria13 Ways to Kill Your Community by Doug

147. I FINISHED THE QUILT

Mar 30 2025 58 mins  
In this walking episode we're clearing a log jam: rage-sewingtackling kryptonite tasksfinishing big audacious art projectsI mention Daily Painting by Carol Marine13 Ways to Kill your CommunityTwig and TaleSalt Spring National Art Prize

146. Pinecone coffins, inimitable marks, and the Good Paint

Mar 09 2025 53 mins  
A walking episode: Man was I ever burnt out just nowRefilling the creative well with classes and booksA childhood home remembered, a map madeLetting kids use the Good PaintTaking another crack at that damn quiltI mention A GREAT MANY THINGS in this episode: Fluent Forever pronunciation trainersAnki, the flashcard appThe Good Ship Illustration Picturebook CourseMartin Salisbury, aut

145. Don't get hung up in the lights

Feb 02 2025 49 mins  
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 DecemberSell your early work, QUICK before you become a different personHow do you teach someone to love something?Becoming a gym girlie in your thirties (maybe)I mentio

144. How far we've come: sweaters no instructions and jamming no feelings

Dec 22 2024 56 mins  
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 thingsConfidence and competence over time, with practice? WHAT!?I mention: Didi pullover by Fibre Mood: https://www.fibremood.com/en/patterns/707-didi-pulloverGood

143. Art Class (is working) and the nude improv quilt (is not working)

Dec 05 2024 41 mins  
A walking in the yard episode, just a little update where I talk about Art Class and Dancing in the Dark and feel hopeful. Also: quilting colour woes, a mama sew-in, and other blue-sky ideas. I mention Modern Improv Quilting by Laura Veenema

142. Kristen Egan: puffins, war pipes, and a pricing pickle

Nov 16 2024 122 mins  
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

141. There is only "during"

Oct 28 2024 41 mins  
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 notMaybe have a snack and give yourself a little break from the intensity of hating your own workSome ideas for vis

140. Courage, a grave polka error, and more coffee cake for me

Oct 09 2024 43 mins  
In this walking episode: That oil painting class emboldened mePolka disasterI 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-bookletCoffee Coffee Cake from "Dessert Pers

139. Gabrielle: value-driven wedding and reclaiming girlhood

Oct 02 2024 113 mins  
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 realIt's never too late to learn to paint y