Art Horse

• What to do when you’re afraid of this thing you want to love?
• Vibe check: are you artificially inflating the stakes? Maybe it’s fine if the shorts don’t fit over yr ass
• Sewing your own clothes is for making them specifically for yr style and yr bod, not for fastness
• Writing is crazy because you can literally write anything you want???!?!

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We mention:

• Closet Core patterns: https://store.closetcorepatterns.com/collections/sewing-classes 
• Perry Mason plot wheels (wait........ 1.2 Million words a year?!): https://authorselectric.blogspot.com/2018/11/erle-stanley-gardner-or-how-to-write-12.html 
• Camp NaNo: https://nanowrimo.org/what-is-camp-nanowrimo 
• True Bias shorf amd pamt: https://shop.truebias.com/product/emerson-crop-pant-shorts 
• The fitting book I ordered: https://www.palmerpletsch.com/product/palmer-pletsch-complete-guide-fitting-sewing-book/ 
• Outlander, the books by Diana Gabaldon
• Mrs Frisby and the The Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O’Brien

• How to get unstuck? Maybe paint-alongs can hold ur hand n take u places u wouldn’t go by urself
• Sometimes “cheating” can move u forward -- or maybe there never was no cheating in the first place
• Why do some paintings have so much life and some are just D E A D ? Help
• Hell yeah to using what u have! But also hell yeah to buying a zipper if u need one instead of fashioning a zipper out of paperclips and grit

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We mention:

• Emily Powell's Instagram: @emilypowellstudio
• Felicia Semple (The Craft Sessions) and her Stash Less Project
• Sewing Classes by Closet Core: https://store.closetcorepatterns.com/collections/sewing-classes
• Concert in the Park. a painting by Rie Muñoz

• We are fans of puttering and putting fun things on yr to-do list
• How do u paint a feeling (srsly how)?
• If you like swimming holes, paint a swimming hole. If you like moths, paint a moth!
• Maybe doing art is just applying your own, personal lens to reality --- woah
• How to do cool tricks of beauty and wit instead of just admiring them? 
• Try makin a list of 100 things u love --- what a delight!

We mention

• Sweet ceramic creatures: daniellepedersen.com 
• Plant Identification app: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app
• Artist Emily Powell
• Painting: Concert in the park by Rie Muñoz
• Painting: "Noah's Ark" by Edward Hicks
• https://psychologytoday.com/

• With 3 hours and a shitty t-shirt, you too can make a shitty bra!
• A “wink” is a way to peek at the complexity of the truth.
• Stop along the way and let the painting concretize into being finished or not
• Julia (of Artist’s Way fame) says your job is to do the work, not to judge the work --- but then how do you ever improve, Julia??
• And then like... what if that means there’s no such thing as wasting? What if that means that judging yourself harshly isn’t necessary for improvement?
• How to adapt to making b i g g e r work and not get lost in the detail-sauce?
• Fun game: how many mistakes can you make on your first try of a new art/craft?

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See Fiona’s llama’s new bra and Jess’s technicolour underwater desert painting on our instagram @arthorsepod or on our website at arthorsepod.com/57

We mention

• Found photos: https://www.instagram.com/owasowfoundphotos/
• Ella Risbridger: Midnight Chicken and other recipes worth living for.
• The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron (JULIA!!)
• https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+say+pikelets 
• https://www.instagram.com/briiiiicuster/ 
• Lois answers the door topless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_Gl9ICxjXE 
• Mark Freeman’s You Are Not A Rock

• Huge, overwhelming tasks are actually a bunch of baby steps all smooshed together
• How do you make friends as an adult?!?! (srsly give us ur ideas)
• If you’ve ever wondered “what is the point of me” .... well, so have we (and Bo Burnham)
• Truly, writing songs is just messing up another song so bad it becomes its own thing
• If you’ve made something embarrassingly woe-is-me, adding a ~*~wink~*~ may make it more interesting

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We mention:

• Bo Burnham’s Netflix special, “Inside”
• Patterns and resources at https://www.closetcorepatterns.com/ (list of independent online fabric stores: https://www.closetcorepatterns.com/the-ultimate-list-of-online-fabric-stores/
• Julia Cameron’s “The Artist’s Way”
• Lucky Sew & Sew’s handmade lingerie: https://luckysewandsew.co.uk/
• One of many bra-focused supply shops: https://boobytraps.com.au/haberdashery/elastics/

• What the actual fuck colour is puddles?
• What if I finish this project and nobody likes it? Wouldn’t it be better if I couldn’t make it past the first step? 
• Maybe house paint just can’t look like the sun
• How to make something people want to buy…? Again??? Do people want a painting of Jess on the toilet, or nah?
• A swift rebuttal to: “You’re never going to learn if you don’t keep working on it and switching back to comfort zone is a cop out - CHEATING”
• Sometimes if you pick up an abandoned project many moons later, it can turn into a whoLE NEW THING

See Fiona's movie paintings and Jess's hotel art on our instagram @arthorsepod or on our website arthorsepod.com/55

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We mention:

• The Believer and their Friday Night Comics workshops: https://believermag.com/comics-workshops/ 
• Comic artist Tillie Walden: https://www.tilliewalden.com/ 
• @reesabobeesa's dreamy desert Instagram video: https://www.instagram.com/p/CPPLFRahzEu/ 
• The movie Mud (2012) by Jeff Nichols
• The movie Paris, Texas (1984) by Wim Wenders

• All choices are good --- they inform future choices and keep you moving forward
• Shit-talking yourself is NOT the source of your achievements 
• What about DESK ZERO???
• What if you don’t lack discipline, you lack community?
• Visible brush strokes don’t make it amateur! Just look at queen Alice Neel

See Jess's sparkling clean desk and Fiona's lovely blue neck on our Instagram @arthorsepod, or up on our website at https://arthorsepod.com/54

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We mention:

• The Art of Resistance by Stephen Pressfield
• Self Esteem by Matthew McKay
• Alice Neel (https://www.aliceneel.com/), specifically "French Girl" and others on the #aliceneel hashtag on Instagram
• @conamorgloria on Twitter
• Amy Hoy’s entrepreneurship podcast “Stacking the Bricks”
• Kara Loewentheil’s life coaching / psychology podcast “Unfuck your Brain”

• Get three of everything cause dirt feels good on your hands
• Understanding the meaning of sweater collar - sometimes instructions are given for a good reason that you don’t find out until u disobey
• Trust the process and you’ll find your voice (if you enjoy the process enough to go through months, nay, years of not enjoying the product)
• “Having things to talk about with to people about is good (prepositions are hard)
• There’s weird shit out there --- and we wanna SEE IT

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See pictures from this episode on Instagram at @arthorsepod or on our website at arthorsepod.com/53

We mention:

• The Girl and the Lamb: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP0LqfFrzJHmrxD-hOOaM1w 
• Victoria Semykina: @victoria_semykina on Instagram
• One week 100 people: https://citizensketcher.com/oneweek100people/
• Song: Drops of Jupiter by Train
• Mars Black: https://www.marsblack.uk/products 
• Song: Sixteen Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford
• Seek, the plant identification app: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app

• Wait what if I take the energy I spend on nurturing others and point it at myself? ? ?
• Harriet says problems with yr now relationships maybe stem from problems with ur “first” fambly --- *sound of door slam, car speeding away* 
• it’s worthwhile to do the things that bring u pure joy even (especially??) if they feel silly (like singin and dancin to nsync)
• If ur feelin low, just hang tight --- ur fun things will eventually feel fun again

We would love to know what a year of listening to Art Horse has meant to you! Send us an email (a voice memo!!?) to [email protected]

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We mention:

• Atrocities Against Indigenous Canadians, a zine series by Jenna Rose-Sands
• The Artist’s Way II and III: Walking in this World and Finding Water by Julia Cameron
• Self-Esteem: A proven program of cognitive techniques for assessing, improving and maintaining your self-esteem by Matthew McKay
• Harriet Lerner: The Dance of Intimacy
• Song: Graceland Too by Phoebe Bridgers (from her 2020 album “Punisher”)

✨ Actually, you’re a boss ass bitch so everyone can just shut up (what happens if you write a letter to the editor in yr own defense?)

✨ Maybe if you genuinely enjoy something, you don’t need a punitive schedule to do it - maybe the punitive schedule is even **preventing** u from the do

✨ No such thing as free lunch, or free snacks, or free pianos on FB Marketplace

✨ Rudy: Goodbye forever?

Friday, May 7 (2021) is the last chance to order a paper copy of our first ever zine! It’s a stunning collection of listener-submitted artwork and commentary and you’re gonna love it. Support the show and get it here: arthosepod.com/zine

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See Fiona’s painting and the little toy truck we found in the piano on our Instagram at @arthorsepod OR on our pretty little website at arthorsepod.com/51

We mention: 

• You are an Artist by Sarah Urist Green
• Art and Fear by David Bayles
• Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards
• Making Comics with Lynda Barry
• The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron