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• What's the difference between "quitting" and "striking of…

• Don't let the weather determine whether you do the work or not
• There’s Trying and then there’s Fantasizing and Using The Fantasy as a Source of Guilt
• Maybe that thing that's been torturing you for year…

• If it doesn’t make money is it worth doing? (Spoiler: YES)
• Ketchup: scheduling in daily creative time and sticking to your guns about it. Mayo: putting a notebook and pencil in your pocket.
• Don’t be th…

• What do you do when it turns out you’re not who you thought you would be your whole life?
• You NEED nurturing community support. YOU NEED IT.
• You can host your own art show in your own house???
• What happ…

Hiatus time! We’re taking a break from weekly episodes. In the meantime, you can find us in the Art Horse community discord through our Patreon at patreon.com/arthorsepod.

We’ll let you know when we k…

• It’s always okay to throw yourself a pity party with a nice cake
• Sometimes it helps to google basic for-dummies shit --- like DO I HAVE ALL THE PIES
• You are guaranteed to miss out on almost everything …

• Sometimes you aim for the moon and you land among the stars..ky and hutch DVDs
• Some things you can jump into and figure out as you go in a timely fashion --- sometimes you need videos for babies to te…

Jackie E. Davis makes a diary comic called Underpants and Overbites and you can find her here: https://www.instagram.com/underpantsandoverbites/ 

In this episode:

• No one has to live your life except yo…

• You don’t have to sell your paintings in order to call yourself a painter!
• Is everyone out to trick you? (yes, if you’re the goalie)
• How are you supposed to make promises and commitments? Esp when they…

• What to do if you’ve fallen into the opposite of flow (drag?!!)!? Maybe just...come back to ur project later!
• What if the thing you’re looking for is in the last place you’d think to look (the newspap…

• Don’t sleep on creativity tricks u learned in kindygarten
• Take some time to listen to your demons so u can recognize their voices and tellem to stfu 
• U don’t have to read the book about going for a wal…

• Saying ‘No’ can drastically improve your life - just ask Fiona!
• A little bit of discouragement can help you look at your idea and strengthen it (but too much feels real bad)
• Masterpieces are just regul…

• If you could choose, what would you spend most of your time doing?
• You’re Not Responsible For Other People’s Feelings about your art, projects, plans!
• What would it feel like to say yes to your big sca…

• The trouble with gettin all the equipment is then u have no excuse but to do the do
• Maybe we like prompts because it feels like our creations come from elsewhere --- so we’re less critical
• Expressing a…

• What if never solving your small problems (including “why me??”) protects you from moving on to more important/scarier problems?
• Using art/portraiture to cope with the weird, weird feeling of deperson…

• What do you do when you like flying by the seat of your pants but you don’t like making expensive mistakes?
• Are new ideas just a bunch of old ideas Mr-Potato-Head-ed together?
• How to market yourself an…

• How to worry about being too sexy and not sexy enough at the SAME TIME
• Nice isn’t the most important thing you can be 
• What if you could move in the direction of meaningful connections just like you wo…

1. Armatures: save time and clay by making a wire n tinfoil skeleton for ur figurines (yes they are figurines haha)
2. Maybe there’s a middle of the road between not planning anything and squeezing the life…