art for all by Sketchbook Skool
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.
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 art a regular part of your life, no matter what level you are.
Welcome to the 5th season of Art for All, the Sketchbook Skool podcast.
Welcome to the 5th season of Art for All, the Sketchbook Skool podcast .
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 Muses (and a Bodyguard): 10 Guides to Creative Inspiration, and The Awe-manac: A Daily Dose of Wonder.
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, Trevor has written over 50 books that have sold more than a million copies worldwide and published in 24 different languages. Thousands of educators have used Trevor’s materials to help kids that are facing some difficult situations such as bullying, divorce, deployment, grief/trauma, homework to name a few. As the Washington Post has said, “His rapport with kids is a stunning thing to watch.” He has traveled to schools, hospitals, orphanages, refugee camps, and military bases worldwide, delivering his unique heartfelt self-messages of resilience, compassion and the ability for kids to safely express themselves.
Michelle Meeker has been an animator at Pixar and Dreamworks and teaches at the Art Institute. She's also a student at Sketchbook Skool.
Najeeb Tarazi is a Lebanese-American director based in Los Angeles.
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 News, which was nominated for two Emmy Awards. Outside of journalism he has just completed his first comics short story collection, "Bite Guard Fever Dreams". He writes about creativity and visual storytelling in his newsletter "The Third Something."
This week, Danny chats with Mark Golden, the CEO and Co-founder of Golden Artist Colors.
This week, Danny talks to Beth Trembley about her new graphic novel, Look Again and how making art helped her process a traumatic event.
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.
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 in our Spark program. I’ve known Seth for many years. He is a calm and thoughtful presence, and I always learn so much from talking to him about art, teaching and life.
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 latest, New Ideas in Botanical Painting . Helen knows so much about art, art history and she always makes me think about things differently.
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 beautiful things. She’s also teaching at Sketchbook Skool.
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 in Chemistry which comes in handy when it comes to explaining how pigments bond to paper. David knows everything about everything related to art supplies, and I always learn so much from talking to him.
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.
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 new direction with her life. She’s become an abstract painter, she teaches travel workshops, and she’s just written a book about drawing and how it can improve your life.
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.
This week John and Danny talk about art and healing.
This week John and Danny talk about inspiration.
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.
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.
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
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 should.
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.
This week John and Danny discuss digital and analog ways of doing things and other vagaries of modern life.
This week John and Danny discuss the purpose and meaning of art in our lives.
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.
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 system and things far far away.
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.
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.
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.
This week John and Danny discuss fear and anxiety, the judgement of others, and ways they've learned to overcome perfectionism.
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 of art supplies really matter?
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 artists/authors, Danny Gregory and John Muir Laws in rich discussions about the creative process.
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.
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.
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, human brains, and much more in a free-wheeling conversation that promises to be inspiring and fun.
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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.
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.
Should you plan out your project? Or just improvise?
"Sketchbook art" may be a new concept yo you but it can revolutionize your creativity and your experience of the everyday.
Your sketchbook can enrich your life in so many ways. And making great drawings isn't necessarily one of them.
How to really believe in yourself as an artist.
How to learn more, every day.
Let's explore the many ways Vincent van Gogh is inspiring and educational for self-taught artists like me and my pals at Sketchbook Skool.
We worry so much about others' opinions of our work. But let me tell you a secret that will make these worries disappear forever.
A listener asks me for advice on how to deal with drawing disasters and find her own voice.
What is the difference between the photos we take and the art we could be making?
Sometimes the only way to deal with your fears is to embrace them. What's that like?
It's a challenge to be in high school and feeling you are poised to make a decision that will determine the course of your entire life. In this episode I offer some perspective to a person in need.
Creative block? Blank Page freeze? Can't get started? Let me give you a helping hand to get you moving....
I’ve struggled with my identity as a writer and an artist and maybe you’re doing the same. Perhaps this will help....
Artists aren't idle dreamers. They're workers and entrepreneurs.
If art making isn't clicking with you, it may just be that you haven't found your soulmate yet.
Your inner perfectionist will tell you not to try — in case you fail.
Art for All is back with a brand new season to help inspire you to get right back to art making.
The challenges and surprises of launching a successful creative business. A frank and in-depth discussion on the past five years of SketchBook Skool with co-founders Danny Gregory and Koosje Koene and Dean of Students Morgan Green.
How to avoid the labels that limit your creativity. A meditation on what happens when you follow your passion with loads of real life examples that may surprise you.
This week author/coach Jill Badonsky gives host Danny Gregory sage and funny advice on breaking down creative barriers and getting to work.
Envy, wrath, pride, greed, lust, gluttony and sloth. Are you guilty?
Host Danny Gregory interviews best-selling author Austin Kleon on the creative process.
We love paper. Thick thin, smooth, chunky, and in this episode host Danny Gregory shares his passion for all its many wondrous forms.
Let's Get Rid of Art Education in Schools. A modest proposal to change the future of education.
In this episode, host Danny Gregory describes the many joys of keeping an illustrated travel journal with lots of tips on drawing and watercoloring on the road. He's joined by Sketchbook Skool co-founder Koosje Koene who shares advice on what to draw, how to fit sketching into a busy travel itinerary, and loads more.
How do artists make a living? This week host Danny Gregory asks some of the creative folks who teach at Sketchbook Skool to let us in on their secrets. Topics include starting out, getting clients, self promotion, bookkeeping, agents, working alone, measuring success and much more.
Are you comfortable calling yourself an "Artist"?
Author Danny Gregory explains the creative process. How the brain recovers from a burst of productivity, the value of inspiration, how to tackle a giant project, coping with setbacks, and more.
Designer/artist Roz Stendahl on how to kickstart your creativity — by giving yourself a job.
Amazingly, there are so many wonderful creative people who are afraid to draw. Here's the story of one and how he overcame his fear.
Starting something new can be challenging. In this episode, Danny explores how and why and suggests some solutions to help you start making great stuff, fearlessly.
