Melanie Alves invites us to her studio talk about the expectations of artists and galleries, being a mother in San Francisco, Portuguese food, using her art for social issues, her pillow project that tackles womens issues, people wanting to touch your art, and how having children can make you more creative. We talk about her painting “China Girl," the story of the woman who inspired it, farts, a bad app idea, getting judged for your art, her young hustle, censoring yourself, Portuguese words, and poop.

Chris Leib talks to us about his upcoming move to Berlin, the Carmel art scene, the idea behind his astronaut and ape paintings, the book “Why Cats Paint,” mystery in narrative, painting around people, using walrus whiskers to paint, that guy who paints blue dogs, and getting ideas from dreams. We talk about Chris’s painting on the easel and explore the idea and techniques behind it. We finish with talking about pseudonyms for commissions and give birth to “Dragonslayer!” Rate us on iTunes if you

We have muralist Amanda Lynn over and we get all up in her mural bizness! We talk about trying to get us into doing murals, her “wall-bitches,“ doing commercial murals vs for yourself, our upcoming group show we’re all in, sleep habits, spirituality, questions we get on social media, and going chemical-free. We talk about her painting “Lullabye” as well as an installation she made. We talk about art fandom and Josh's resistance to commissions to end the episode. Rate us on iTunes if you liked the

Adam Caldwell has us over to his studio to tell us about teaching beginner students, moving from Maine, art in the age of technology, subject genders in paintings, handling criticism, and a painting in his studio in progress which leads to talking about ways to create new compositions, nostalgia, etc. Josh finishes the show sans-Sergio and they talk about taking chances with paintings, political activism and the social climate before wrapping it up. Look up his upcoming Talon Gallery show in Portland!

The first episode with ya boyz together in 4 weeks! We start off by recapping Sergio’s plein air event in Atlanta, then we talk about the episode Josh did with Steve Kim and what Sergio thought of them. We talk John Krasinski, Donald Glover, Cobra Kai and more! We talk about sketchbook habits, then recap our previous weekends and trash the BS parts of the Santa Rosa art scene before discussing an altercation Josh had at his WonderlandSF reception. Please rate and review us on iTunes!

Join us as we stumble though this very clumsy conversation! full off of pan cakes and mimosas, we seem to start down a road where we discuss relevant topics that apply to an art podcast, before taking a hard right turns down a dark ally that only leads to confusion and nervous laughter. so please enjoy the brief moments of sunlight before we quickly bring you back to a disorientating darkness. If the description of this podcast confuses you.Hold on to your seats cause you ain't heard nothing YET!

Steve Kim stops by on his road trip from Mississippi to LA to talk to me and guest host Leon Loucheur about his up coming show and mural project at NOH/WAVE. We also talk about Grad school, the horror film his paintings pulled reference from for the upcoming show. his regrets on not investing in bitcoin, And trying to put himself back into the mindset of his 11 year old self, right before the dark bruting art stage... then we talk a little shit about a few OG abstract guys!

Sergio and Josh recap their boozy night before talking about working on their upcoming shows. All sorts of random stuff gets talked about, such as framing, Bam Bam Bigelow, nuclear holocaust, dad jokes, dark comedies, not jotting down ideas, and people listening to our podcast. Sergio fails miserably at trying to get Josh to read The Art Spirit by Robert Henri. We trash a bunch of annoying things before we limp to the finish line. Uber epic episode. Stayeth woketh, bros.

Emilio Villalba invites us to his home and studio to talk about how he titles his paintings, eyeballs, going from animation in LA to painting in SF, how Mark Tennant changed his life, his journey to see Velasquez and a few other things before we get into his painting in progress, “Mother and Child” that he graciously allowed us to share with you. We discuss why Picasso and Willem de Kooning were great and speculate on who will be remembered from our time. We wrap it up by talking about album cover art.

Aaron Nagel tells about his musical beginnings and how he started painting in oils, how he works with models, his new series of paintings with cloth, and long-ass audiobooks. We talk about his “Signal To Noise” paintings and about narratives, his fascination with form, the EGO Act, and commissions. We talk some more about working with models & getting reference, supplemental income, teaching, painting on dibond and his FedEx debacle and answer listener questions. Catch his Abend Gallery show in June!