Art Horse

A walking around the yard in range of the baby monitor episode!

• Accidentally manifesting four barn dance gigs in one week (too many?)
• Plus: coming full circle and calling on stage at the dance that ori…

In this episode:

• HOW DID THE FUNDRAISER GO?
• I hate when people take video at The Function (takes video at The Function)
• What if you just learned easier songs and could actually play them?
• If you miss dan…

Andrea Holmes (of A. Holmes Art Studio) is mural painter, art mentor, fellow "bird lady", and now AUTHOR! based in McKinney, Texas. Andrea recently wrote a book with her friend Beth Fields called "Ar…

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…

In this episode:

• Easy come, very difficult go: de-stashing in a small town
• Pocket welt revelations
• Want to be more musical? Just paint a shuffle on it (what!?)

I mention:

• Fibremood Marcia Jacket: https://…

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 t…

In this walking episode we're clearing a log jam:

• rage-sewing
• tackling kryptonite tasks
• finishing big audacious art projects

I mention

• Daily Painting by Carol Marine
• 13 Ways to Kill your Community
• Twig and …

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…

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 i…

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 p…

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 mentio…

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 illus…

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 anythin…

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 bigge…

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, plan…

A walking episode with a dog and a very chatty baby. In this episode:

• Just thread the machine and walk away
• Showing Up is a superpower that you can just choose to have
• Letting things sit and developing …

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!!) …

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…

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 thi…