art for all

By Sketchbook Skool

What's art for all about?

Creative inspiration and advice to help you stop procrastinating and start making stuff. Any kind of stuff. Hosted by best-selling author Danny Gregory. Brought to you by Sketchbook Skool. 

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04.06.2023
Why is everyone's art better than mine?
Are you constantly comparing your art to other artists? Does it seem like everyone on Instagram is making better stuff than you? Let's talk about these issues and better understand where your art stands and why you shouldn't give up! Get...
03.29.2023
How do I find my style?
Are you copying other people's art and worrying you can never make anything unique? How do you develop a personal approach? How do you make art that's authentically yours? Let's talk about these issues and devise some solutions to make...
03.23.2023
How do I find time for art?
Welcome to the 5th season of Art for All, the Sketchbook Skool podcast. Join Danny Gregory and this season's cohost, Jill Badonsky, as they discuss creative blocks and challenges and how to get it together, get inspired, and get to work. Today...
03.15.2023
How to get your creative project started NOW!
Welcome to the 5th season of Art for All, the Sketchbook Skool podcast . Join Danny Gregory and this season's cohost, Jill Badonsky, as they discuss creative blocks and challenges and how to get it together, get inspired, and get to...
12.26.2022
77. Jill Badonsky: The Creative Mind
This week Danny chats with Jill Badonsky, M.Ed, an internationally recognized workshop leader, award-winning inspirational humorist, and author/illustrator of three books about mindfulness and creativity including The Muse is In: An Owner’s Manual to Your Creativity, The Nine Modern Day...
12.19.2022
76. Trevor Romain: Healing kids with art
For more than 30 years, Trevor Romain has been entertaining, educating, and inspiring both children and adults with his best-selling books, award-winning animation series, as a keynote speaker, and an incredible storyteller. Being South African born and American by choice,...
12.12.2022
75. Michelle Meeker: the comic diary
Michelle Meeker has been an animator at Pixar and Dreamworks and teaches at the Art Institute. She's also a student at Sketchbook Skool. Michelle's comic diary: https://www.instagram.com/totallytrueevents/ Get your free ebook and newsletter at https://sketchbookskool.com/Write to us at [email protected] Subscribe...
12.05.2022
74. Najeeb Tarazi: To Pixar and Beyond
Najeeb Tarazi is a Lebanese-American director based in Los Angeles. His new short film “One More Try” was recently called “mesmerizing”, “masterful”, and “brilliant chaos” by Tony Hawk. His 2019 music video “Walk the Walk” screened at the 2019 SXSW...
11.21.2022
73. Miriam Schulman: Be an Artrepreneur
This week, Danny chats with Miriam Schulman. She's an artist, teacher, podcast host, and author of Artpreneur: The Step-by-Step Guide to Making a Sustainable Living from your Creativity. Scheduled for release in February 2023, it's a book about how to...
11.14.2022
72. Adam Westbrook: How to love making
This week, Danny chats with Adam Westbrook. He is a journalist, filmmaker and artist, currently based in London. Alongside his YouTube channel, he has produced dozens of videos for The New York Times, including "Operation Infektion", a documentary about Fake...
11.07.2022
71. Mark Golden: Making Paint
This week, Danny chats with Mark Golden, the CEO and Co-founder of Golden Artist Colors. Mark began the company in 1980 with 4 employees, his father Sam Golden, mother Adele and wife Barbara. Originating in a cow barn on his parents’...
10.31.2022
70. Beth Trembley: Comics and trauma
This week, Danny talks to Beth Trembley about her new graphic novel, Look Again and how making art helped her process a traumatic event. About Beth: Beth grew up knowing herself to be a kid who could write but who could not...
10.24.2022
69. Ann Lemon: how art saves lives
This week Danny talks to Ann Lemon about the legacy of her son, artist Amos Lemon Burkhart, and the foundation she established to extend his message and combat teen suicide. You can support the Foundation's work at their upcoming benefit on...
10.17.2022
68: Seth Apter: Art and Insecurity
Seth is a mixed-media artist and a teacher. He’s also a former psychologist who practiced for decades and then gave it up to focus on his art. He has taught at Sketchbook Skool and will soon start a new class...
10.10.2022
67: Helen Birch: Are we "real" artists?
Helen is an art tutor and blogger and has been an art lecturer at several art and design institutions across the UK. She is also the author of several books including Freehand, Drawn from Life, Just Add Watercolor and her...
10.03.2022
66: Lindsay Weirich: Yummy art supplies
Lindsay is an artist and a teacher. She also has an incredible YouTube channel called The Frugal Crafter full of reviews and demonstrations. More than half a million subscribers tune in to learn more about using materials, painting, and making...
09.26.2022
65. David Pyle: Geeking out over art supplies
David Pyle is an author, a publisher, a prize-winning watercolor painter, and he has worked in and around the art supply world for decades. He teaches at Colorado State University and also at Sketchbook Skool. He also has a degree...
09.19.2022
64. Tom Hart: Art & Artificial Intelligence
Tom Hart is an award-winning cartoonist, a NY Times best-selling author, and the Executive Director of the Sequential Artists Workshop or SAW, a school for cartooning and graphic novels. He’s also taught at Sketchbook Skool. Tom's website Get your free...
09.12.2022
63. Koosje Koene: Surviving creative burnout
Today I’m going to be talking to Koosje Koene. Koosje cofounded Sketchbook Skool with me back in 2013 and we worked together every day for almost seven years. But then Koosje decided to leave the company and she’s taken a...
09.05.2022
62. John Muir Laws: Natural journaling in Africa and the Galapagos
John Muir Laws is a naturalist and an artist, and a major figure in the world of nature journaling. And he teaches at Sketchbook Skool. Season Three of this podcast was an extended conversation between Jack and me. For more visit...
05.30.2022
61. Art and Healing
This week John and Danny talk about art and healing. From Season 3 of "art for all," the Sketchbook Skool podcast. Join artists/authors, Danny Gregory and John Muir Laws in rich discussions about the creative process. Get your free ebook and...
05.23.2022
60. Inspiring yourself
This week John and Danny talk about inspiration. From Season 3 of "art for all," the Sketchbook Skool podcast. Join artists/authors, Danny Gregory and John Muir Laws in rich discussions about the creative process. Get your free ebook and essays at...
05.16.2022
59. Art & Business
How can you make a living as a creative person? Danny and John tell you how they do and other strategies for making ends meet. Get your free ebook and newsletter at https://sketchbookskool.com/Write to us at [email protected] Subscribe to...
05.09.2022
58. High School
This week John and Danny go back to high school — how it affected them, how it affects creative people of all types, and whether it is necessary. From Season 3 of "art for all," the Sketchbook Skool podcast. Join artists/authors,...
05.02.2022
57. Playing with myself
Jack is off this week so Danny fills the void by reading a few essays. You can get a fresh essay each week by signing up (free) at DannysEssays.com Get your free ebook and newsletter at https://sketchbookskool.com/Write to us at...
04.25.2022
56. Tools for new artists
What supplies do you really need to start making art? Can you learn and make art a part of your life without spending a lot of time and money? Danny and John tell you how you can and why you...
04.18.2022
55. Drawing and the Brain
This week John and Danny dive deep into the brain and discuss how we process visual information. They talk about how the brain affects art-making. From Season 3 of "art for all," the Sketchbook Skool podcast. Join artists/authors, Danny Gregory and...
04.11.2022
54. Analog/Digital
This week John and Danny discuss digital and analog ways of doing things and other vagaries of modern life. From Season 3 of "art for all," the Sketchbook Skool podcast. Join artists/authors, Danny Gregory and John Muir Laws in rich discussions...
04.04.2022
53. What is art for?
This week John and Danny discuss the purpose and meaning of art in our lives. From Season 3 of "art for all," the Sketchbook Skool podcast. Join artists/authors, Danny Gregory and John Muir Laws in rich discussions about the creative...
03.21.2022
52. Growth Mindset
This week John and Danny discuss what it means to have a growth mindset. Listen along as they debate the negatives and positives of a fixed mindset, and the effects either can have on your creative journey. From Season 3 of...
03.14.2022
51. Art Making and Technology
This week John and Danny spend some time geeking out over the moon while weighing the pros and cons of combining technology with art. Listen along as they discuss a few of their favorite apps while talking about the solar...
03.07.2022
50. Travel and Art
This week John and Danny discuss the relationship between travel and art and how they can both change our perspectives and influence the here and now of our everyday routines. From Season 3 of "art for all," the Sketchbook Skool podcast....
02.28.2022
49. Nature and Creativity
This week John and Danny discuss the intersection of nature and creativity while talking about natural selection and the creative process, perfectionism, and the dangers of praise. From Season 3 of "art for all," the Sketchbook Skool podcast. Join artists/authors, Danny...
02.21.2022
48. Teachers and Students
This week John and Danny discuss teachers of their past, how they've "learned to learn", the role of teachers, the qualities they feel go into a good teacher, and how they try to apply those qualities as teachers themselves. From Season...
02.14.2022
47. Fear
This week John and Danny discuss fear and anxiety, the judgement of others, and ways they've learned to overcome perfectionism. From Season 3 of "art for all," the Sketchbook Skool podcast. Join artists/authors, Danny Gregory and John Muir Laws in rich...
02.07.2022
46. Favorite art supplies
This week John and Danny dive into the world of art supplies as they discuss some of their favorite tools, as well as their go-to travel kits and journals. Listen along as they ultimately answer the question- Does your choice...
01.31.2022
45. Influences
This week John and Danny talk about the roles influences play in our creative development and how to find and benefit from people and sources that can inspire you. From Season 3 of "art for all," the Sketchbook Skool podcast. Join...
01.24.2022
44. Authenticity
From Season 3 of "art for all," the Sketchbook Skool podcast. Join artists/authors, Danny Gregory and John Muir Laws in rich discussions about the creative process. This week John and Danny talk about what authenticity means and its relevance to art....
01.17.2022
43: Self Taught
From Season 3 of "art for all," the Sketchbook Skool podcast. Join artists/authors, Danny Gregory and John Muir Laws in rich discussions about the creative process. This week John and Danny talk about the discomfort that comes with growth and why...
01.10.2022
42: Passion
From Season 3 of "art for all," the Sketchbook Skool podcast. Join artists/authors, Danny Gregory and John Muir Laws in rich discussions about the creative process. This week John and Danny talk about their lifelong passions and how keeping a sketchbooks...
01.03.2022
41: Beginning
From Season 3 of "art for all," the Sketchbook Skool podcast. Join artists/authors, Danny Gregory and John Muir Laws in rich discussions about the creative process. This week, John and Danny talk about beginning and what it is like to...
12.27.2021
40. Welcome to the new season: The Curious Sketchbook
Season 3 of Art for All is called "The Curious Sketchbook." Each week, host Danny Gregory will be joined each week by artist, author, biologist, and nature journaler, John Muir Laws. They will discuss drawing and painting, nature journaling, creativity, psychology,...
12.20.2021
39. Art for All - Season Three preview
Subscribe to Danny's weekly Essay at dannysessays.com. Watch the video of this interview on YouTube: https://skool.tiny.us/podvideos And learn more at sketchbookskool.com
06.28.2021
38. Why it's so hard to be an artist
Think you shouldn't devote your life to art? You're not alone. In this episode we discuss all the forces arrayed against you — and how to beat them. Get your free ebook and newsletter at https://sketchbookskool.com/Write to us at [email protected] ...
06.21.2021
37. Stare Master
This week, I explain a key to learning to create that you've always known about and probably totally forgotten. It worked for Mozart. It can work for you. Get your free ebook and newsletter at https://sketchbookskool.com/Write to us at [email protected] ...
06.14.2021
36. My Name is Mud
Should you plan out your project? Or just improvise? Get your free ebook and newsletter at https://sketchbookskool.com/Write to us at [email protected] Subscribe to Danny's weekly Essay at dannysessays.com. Watch the video of this interview on YouTube: https://skool.tiny.us/podvideos ...
06.07.2021
35. How a sketchbook can change your life.
"Sketchbook art" may be a new concept yo you but it can revolutionize your creativity and your experience of the everyday. The video version of this essay. Get your free ebook and newsletter at https://sketchbookskool.com/Write to us at [email protected] Subscribe...
05.31.2021
34. Living well through bad drawings
Your sketchbook can enrich your life in so many ways. And making great drawings isn't necessarily one of them. Get your free ebook and newsletter at https://sketchbookskool.com/Write to us at [email protected] Subscribe to Danny's weekly Essay at dannysessays.com. ...
05.28.2021
33. Pass it on
Get your free ebook and newsletter at https://sketchbookskool.com/Write to us at [email protected] Subscribe to Danny's weekly Essay at dannysessays.com. Watch the video of this interview on YouTube: https://skool.tiny.us/podvideos And learn more at sketchbookskool.com
05.28.2021
32. How to feed your creative soul.
Get your free ebook and newsletter at https://sketchbookskool.com/Write to us at [email protected] Subscribe to Danny's weekly Essay at dannysessays.com. Watch the video of this interview on YouTube: https://skool.tiny.us/podvideos And learn more at sketchbookskool.com

What's art for all about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

art for all episodes:

Why is everyone's art better than mine?

How do I find my style?

How do I find time for art?

How to get your creative project started NOW!

77. Jill Badonsky: The Creative Mind

76. Trevor Romain: Healing kids with art

75. Michelle Meeker: the comic diary

74. Najeeb Tarazi: To Pixar and Beyond

73. Miriam Schulman: Be an Artrepreneur

72. Adam Westbrook: How to love making

71. Mark Golden: Making Paint

70. Beth Trembley: Comics and trauma

69. Ann Lemon: how art saves lives

68: Seth Apter: Art and Insecurity

67: Helen Birch: Are we "real" artists?

66: Lindsay Weirich: Yummy art supplies

65. David Pyle: Geeking out over art supplies

64. Tom Hart: Art & Artificial Intelligence

63. Koosje Koene: Surviving creative burnout

62. John Muir Laws: Natural journaling in Africa and the Galapagos

61. Art and Healing

60. Inspiring yourself

59. Art & Business

58. High School

57. Playing with myself

56. Tools for new artists

55. Drawing and the Brain

54. Analog/Digital

53. What is art for?

52. Growth Mindset

51. Art Making and Technology

50. Travel and Art

49. Nature and Creativity

48. Teachers and Students

47. Fear

46. Favorite art supplies

45. Influences

44. Authenticity

43: Self Taught

42: Passion

41: Beginning

40. Welcome to the new season: The Curious Sketchbook

39. Art for All - Season Three preview

38. Why it's so hard to be an artist

37. Stare Master

36. My Name is Mud

35. How a sketchbook can change your life.

34. Living well through bad drawings

33. Pass it on

32. How to feed your creative soul.