Art Horse

• 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 always require sacrifices
• How to know if a wish granted is gonna come back n bite u in the butt?
• How does taking risks prepare us for the great beyond? 

Join the art club at patreon.com/arthorsepod. See pics from this episode on our instagram @arthorsepod or on our website at arthorsepod.com/70.

• Podcast: Seth Godin on picking yourself https://www.resources.soundstrue.com/podcast/seth-godin-taking-the-leap-and-picking-yourself/
• Book: The Second Mountain by David Brooks
• Book: 4000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
• Book: Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers
• Know Your Lemons: https://knowyourlemons.org/ 
• Art Hives: https://arthives.org/ 
• On "Good Death": http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/  

• 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 newspaper)???
• If you do the thing you’re afraid of there will just be more things to be afraid of (so get going)
• UR IMAGINATION IS ALWAYS RIGHT -- no one but yourself can tell you what a fish sees when you speed by on an inner tube

Join the art club at patreon.com/arthorsepod. See pics on our instagram @arthorsepod or on our website at arthorsepod.com/69

We mention:

• @edensprout and her sweaters https://instagram.com/edensprout/
• Mark Freeman’s book You are Not a Rock
• Sari not Sorry and the dollar store dolls: https://www.sari.studio/#/dollar-store-toy-aisle/ 
• Kathy Crawshay and painting moments: https://www.gobc.ca/100-mile-house-travel/kathy-crawshay_3551 
• Sunflower granny square pattern https://melaniekham.com/sunflower-granny-square-crochet-pattern/ 

• 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 walk; u can just go for the walk
• Okay I’m listening to my gut but what if my gut says “this isn’t good enough”?
• TFL (Today Fiona Learned): a more authentic imitation comes from copying the process (not just the outcome)

Join the art club at patreon.com/arthorsepod
See pics on our instagram @arthorsepod or on our website at arthorsepod.com/68

We mention:

• Emerald Erin bra kits
• Mighty Ugly by Kim Piper Werker
• Vulnerability is My Superpower: an Underpants and Overbites Collection
• Walking in this World (Julia Cameron)

• 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 regular pieces that resonate unusually??
• What if other peoples’ problems are their own problems (and not your problems)?
• Sometimes balloons need to be popped so you can blow future balloons real big

Join the art club at patreon.com/arthorsepod. See pics on our instagram @arthorsepod or on our website at arthorsepod.com/67 

We mention:

• Make it Mighty Ugly by Kim Piper Werker
• Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
• How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy
• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries 
• Greg's guitar app, Simply Guitar by JoyTunes: https://www.joytunes.com

• 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 scary dream?!
• Ideas never run out but they don’t always come back (so write them down)
• Sometimes you just make a rare African antelope out of clay and you don’t have to know why 

SOME ANNOUNCEMENTS!
Join us on Instagram Live this coming Thursday, August 19, 2021
Come see us at the Thousand Islands Pride Festival in Gananoque, Ontario on September 12!

Join the art club at patreon.com/arthorsepod
See pics on our instagram @arthorsepod or on our website at arthorsepod.com/66

We mention:

• Found poetry workshop by @thistlequiff and @emilieboucherstudio 
• Michelle of Lost and Found Crafts in Olympia, WA
• Book: The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
• Book: Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway by Susan Jeffers
• Ukulele songs: https://www.doctoruke.com/songs.html 
• The Ukulele website Jess forgot to mention: http://ukulelehunt.com/category/Chords/
• Black beauty bra kits by Emerald Erin
• Liz Sews does bra sewing sew alongs on YouTube (including the Black Beauty!)
• 1000 Islands Pride Festival (September, in Gananoque, ON) - https://1000islandspride.ca/
• Beam Paints watercolours: https://www.beampaints.com/
• Book: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
• Song: Heteroverheels by Dan and Drum

• 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 difficult emotion in a piece of art might help u release hold of it even a lil bit
• Anyone can write a poem !!! (even jess hahahhaha jk jk jk jk)

Join the art club at patreon.com/arthorsepod

See pics on our instagram @arthorsepod or on our website at arthorsepod.com/65 

We mention:

• Great bra sewing bee https://greatbrasewingbee.com/ 
• Madalynne intimates https://madalynne.com/ 
• Book: How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy
• Jeff Tweedy wants you to be bad at something (Ezra Klein Podcast): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/02/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jeff-tweedy.html  
• Porcelynne, bra supply: https://porcelynne.com/ 
• Emerald Erin: https://emeralderin.com/ 

• 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 depersonalization (not recognizing yourself in the mirror)
• The unexpected and hitherto unappreciated advantages of the 9-5
• Building a vocabulary of marks might come in handy when you’re trying to let r rip in the future
• We always say “make lots of art, even if it’s shit!” but... what if shit art makes you **feel** like shit?

Get extra episodes and join our art community on Discord at patreon.com/arthorsepod. See Fiona's portraits and Jess's intuitive paintings @arthorsepod or on our website at arthorsepod.com/64. 

We mention:

• Emily Powell: https://www.instagram.com/emilypowellstudio/ 
• Lynda Barry’s Making Comics: https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/1/8/21024723/lynda-barry-interview-making-comics-book 
• Drawing Worlds workshop, hosted by the Believer Magazine: https://believermag.com/logger/drawing-worlds/ 
• Jeff Tweedy wants you to be bad at something (Ezra Klein Podcast): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/02/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jeff-tweedy.html 

• 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 and your work without manipulating people?
• What if you could just do bad work in the privacy of your own home? 

Join the art club at patreon.com/arthorsepod. See pics on our instagram @arthorsepod or on our website at arthorsepod.com/63 .

• A song a day - WheezyWaiter video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k_DkpPRWhA 
• Jeff Tweedy wants you to be bad at something (Ezra Klein Podcast): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/02/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jeff-tweedy.html 
• Craftsy and the tote bag: https://www.craftsy.com/class/the-scrappy-market-tote/ 
• Lucky Sew n Sew: https://luckysewandsew.co.uk/ 
• Good Night Day (Tara Lynn Morrison): https://www.ravelry.com/designers/tara-lynn-morrison 
• Song: I do this all the time by Self Esteem: https://open.spotify.com/track/6Pgc3ulraOY7usQgIaIpK6?si=410a9a0468f9408a 
• Small business money book: Profit First by Mikey Mike Michalowicz
• Culture Hustle: https://culturehustle.com/ 

• 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 would move towards any other goal?
• Profit and pleasure: if you’re thriving, you can put much more good into the world than if you’re suffering

You can join the art club at patreon.com/arthorsepod. See pics of Fiona's space buns and Jess's folded knitted hem (?!) on our instagram @arthorsepod or on our website at arthorsepod.com/62.

We mention:

• “The entire universe condensing down to a single point inside a cats head” https://www.instagram.com/p/CRbb1M_otFD/ 
• @emthejackalope’s space bun: https://www.instagram.com/p/CJyn_-GMt9p/
• @emilypowellstudio ‘s batch painting workshop: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CQg3NHNnc1G/ 
• As Friends tank pattern (FOLDED HEM): https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/as-friends-tank 
• Look At My Holes pattern: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/look-at-my-holes 

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 out of your writing?
3. There are strategies to help you paint from your imagination - you don’t just gotta look at a blank canvas and go “ok, let er rip”
4. What makes art “honest”, vs “pandering”? Who knows, but we think it only really matters what u feel about what u made
5. Fiona thought up Chicken Run before Chicken Run (lolol) 

Join the art club at patreon.com/arthorsepod

See glitter critter n snake pics on our instagram @arthorsepod or on our website at arthorsepod.com/61

We mention:

• Danielle Pederson's clay figurines: daniellepedersen.com 
• Emily powell's batch painting: https://www.instagram.com/emilypowellstudio/ 
• The Secret of Nimh by Robert C. O’Brien