Art Horse
A silly and serious podcast about creativity and stepping out of your comfort zone.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 69 minutes
- Episodes
- 163
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
42. Intuitive thrifting and the burden of a free piano
The Juicy Bits
- The fun is over if you do it all at once
- Earrings DO deliver you a bigger life
- Doing things with ur body treats ur brain good
- Going ham on Marketplace is like intuitive eating: learn your …
41. Deadline extensions, getting rid of art (how?), and staring into the ideabyss
The Juice:
- More time to work on a commission can sometimes just mean more time to worry about it
- It’s ok to move in stages towards better habits instead of quitting old ones cold turkey
- There’s more th…
40. Infinite scroll and insatiable stashing
The Juice:
- It’s okay and makes sense to use ur living space to reflect ur identity back to urself and others
- It’s okay to use ENOUGH PAINT
- The addictiveness of social media is real and it’s on purpose
- St…
39. Ten fingers, ten toes
In the middle of a move, Fiona deals with the irritation of not having her crafting space set up (“where’s mY SHIT?!”), but manages to squeeze out a painting nonetheless. Jess crashes unceremoniousl…
38. Standup, lie down: comedy and mental health with Jane Postlethwaite
Early-morning comedy workshop host Jane joins Fiona and Jess for a serious chat about comedy, creativity, and mental health. They discuss: what to wear so people will listen to you, how to generate g…
37. That’s not like any Jerry I’ve ever seen: compassion, comedy, and capturing likeness
Fiona paints herself as a child and experiences a migraine attack, both of which turn into opportunities to let go of some guilt and practice self-compassion. Jess discovers a unifying theme in her r…
36. Arting after work, arting as work, and trusting your (OWN) guts
Fiona experiences what it’s like to be a fully-employed human with only evenings and weekends to be creative, but finds it surprisingly easy to turn to painting after work. Jess paints her hardest to…
35. Go big or go home: Emily Powell on being bold, resourceful, and trusting your guts
Painter Emily Powell chats with Fiona and Jess about how she elbowed her way into a painting career. She encourages Fiona to go big instead of increasingly smaller, and tells Jess (and you) where to …
34. Planning for 2021: dreams, schemes and real i fart parties
Fiona and Jess look forward to the creative dreams and schemes of 2021. Jess resolves to paint BIG and start budgeting for creative enrichment. Fiona hopes to find her creative “weapon of choice”, fi…
33. Year in review: colour, creative growth, and sticking your toes in pie
Jess and Fiona take stock of this past year’s successes, failures, baby steps, and big creative shifts.
Fiona, a chronic dabbler, looks back at all the pies she stuck her toes into since starting Art …
32. Me-ness envy and finding out your creative voice was inside you the whole time
Fiona turns to science for her colour palette with breathtaking results, and is surprised to find Julia Cameron’s wisdom turn up in a book about disordered eating. Jess sources real unicorn fluff, bu…
31. Jess weaves a gorgeous rug for ants and Fiona accidentally paints a rabbit mugshot
Jess finds her weaving flow with a rug for ants, and Fiona accidentally goes slaughterhouse when she means to go whimsical. Both reflect on personal artistic style and wrap up some long-suffering cre…
30. Creating to heal and grow: the power of keeping it private
Fiona breaks through last week’s creative block and expresses some heavy emotions in the form of PRIVATE, mom, emo-as-hell song lyrics. Inspired by a photo in the night, Jess finally goes out into th…
29. Comparison is the thief of joy: when an experienced, highly educated professional is better than you
Fiona hones her technical skills by struggling through a big video project, experiences severe blog-writer’s-block, and attempts to become an indie-sad-girl-singer-songwriter: how hard could it be? J…
28. Everyone else is just as dumb as me is, terrible sketches, and recovery bagels
Jess makes some “terrible” sketches and knits her needle down to a stump. Fiona finds some chewy healing and growth in a Montreal-style bagel. Both feel liberated by the mistakes of real adults (look…
27. Collage, poetry, and technical difficulties: let it be what it gonna be
Fiona expresses some COVID anxiety with her first ever collage and writes an accidental poem about pain and depression. Jess hunts for treasure DOWNTOWN and does some creative thread-finding, both fi…
26. Fiona paints through the pain and Jess knits a sexy hat
Jess worries about a Big Purchase (an online course for illustrators!?) and knits up a storm. Fiona battens down the hatches in another week of migraines, and finds a surprising light through the clo…
25. The extravagance of furniture, fancy pencils, and chronic illness
Jess single-handedly causes the apocalypse, cancels Christmas, and is taunted by $500 pencil crayons – however, she sure does mix some media. Fiona’s chronic headaches give her Big Guilt over stickin…
24. Day ruined: performance anxiety and recovering from accomplishments
Jess lives out the arrival fallacy when she tries to celebrate and unexpectedly experiences depression. Fiona turns unsatisfactory paintings into learning experiences, and is betrayed by her own body…
23. Laughs and learns: chasing comedy and taking in teaching
Fiona paints in full-on flow, dissects some big laughs, and takes a baby step towards something she really cares about - the lols. Jess learns from various painters with, shall we say, varying approa…