Art Life Plan Podcast

What are you making right now? Not what you’re planning to make someday or what you think your art practice should be doing. What is actually sitting on your table, open on your screen, or half finished in the studio?

This week on Art Life Plan, I’m talking about how the work you are already making can tell you a lot about your process, your energy, and what is actually holding your attention right now.

Question of the week: What are you making right now?

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Getting back into the studio is a lot easier when you do not have to figure everything out from scratch.

This week on Art Life Plan, I’m talking about a few simple ways to leave yourself an easy way back into the work, like writing down the next step, setting materials out, or stopping while you still know what you want to do next.

Question of the week: What could you leave ready in your studio today that would make it easier to start next time?

Have you ever made something that is technically fine, but you just do not care about it?

This week on Art Life Plan, I’m talking about those pieces that work on paper but still leave you bored, what that can tell you about your process, and how to figure out whether the idea needs a different approach or whether you are simply done with it.

Question of the week: Is there something you keep making because you know how to make it, even though you are not particularly interested in it anymore?

Do you have an art supply you’ve been saving because it feels too nice to use?

This week on Art Life Plan, I’m talking about the good paper, expensive paint, beautiful sketchbook, fancy block, or other material that somehow became too precious to actually make anything with. We’re getting into why we save supplies for “someday,” why using them badly still counts as using them, and how to get past that weird pressure to make something worthy of the material.

Question of the week: What art supply have you been saving for “someday,” and what could you make with it now?

It’s easy to get caught up in audience numbers when you’re sharing your work online, but a bigger audience and a stronger community are not the same thing.

In this episode, I’m talking about the people who keep showing up, why that matters, and a few ways to make more room for actual connection without turning your entire art practice into content.

Question of the week: Who is already showing up for your work, and what could you do to make a little more room for that connection?

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A studio routine can work really well for a while and then suddenly stop fitting your life. Schedules change, energy changes, work gets busier, and the time you thought you had for making art starts disappearing.

In this episode, I’m talking about how to adjust studio time when your routine changes, why flexibility matters more than finding one perfect schedule, and how staying connected to the work can look different from week to week.

The start of a new semester always feels a little like the studio version of a fresh start. There are new routines, new people, new ideas, and a lot of things you cannot really know until you begin.

In this shorter episode, I’m talking about what fresh starts can look like in an art practice, why beginnings do not need to come with a complete plan, and how starting something new does not mean starting from zero. Sometimes the most useful thing you can do is make the first thing and let the rest develop from there.

Question of the week: What would a fresh start in your studio actually look like right now?

Episode 100?!?!!!

Studios collect more than supplies and unfinished work. Over time, they can also fill up with things we keep because of guilt, obligation, habit, or an older idea of what our art practice was supposed to be.

In this episode, I’m talking about the emotional clutter that builds up in a studio, from abandoned projects and unused supplies to old work we feel strangely responsible for keeping. I also talk about how noticing what still belongs in your current practice can make the studio feel more useful, more active, and more connected to the work you actually want to make now.

Question of the week: What’s one thing in your studio that you’re keeping out of guilt, obligation, or habit rather than because it still belongs in your practice?

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This week on Art Life Plan, we’re talking about why saying yes to everything can slowly pull you away from your own work.

We’ll look at creative boundaries, the cost of automatic yeses, how to pause before committing, and why protecting your time, energy, and attention is part of having a sustainable studio practice.

This week on Art Life Plan, we’re talking about why process documentation matters, especially when the middle stages of the work are easy to forget once the piece is finished.

We’ll look at process photos, sketchbook records, noticing patterns in your work, and how documenting the changes can help you understand how your creative decisions actually develop.