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265 • A WALK AND TALK AROUND A GRAVEYARD IN THE RAIN

265 • A WALK AND TALK AROUND A GRAVEYARD IN THE RAIN

This ‘About The Tings’ episode was a walk and talk around a Graveyard in Plymouth :)

Co-host lilDENNiS was here in spirit to help me talk about stuff like:

My Plans for the Podcast,
The 100 Day Drawing Camp Course by Kesh,
Realistic Drawing vs Drawing from Your Imagination,
ADHD,
Autism,
My Website,
Being in a Graveyard,
The Mindset of an Artist,
Rearranging My Room,
Why Do Some Artists Give Up?,
The Sound of Rain,
Finding Balance,
How Art Will Wait For You,
and there’s a Bloke in a lil Van with a Face … Beep Beep! :)

Hope you enjoy this one.

263 • THE ART OF DREAMING BY CARLOS CASTANEDA

263 • THE ART OF DREAMING BY CARLOS CASTANEDA

In this one I talk about a book I recently finished, called ‘The Art of Dreaming by Carlos Castaneda’.

Co-host lilDENNiS was here too, as we talked about tings like:

Dreams Within Dreams,
The Physical Bodies Position When Falling Asleep,
Awareness,
Shape Shifting He-Shes,
False Awakenings,
Being Trapped in a Dream,
What I think of The Art of Dreaming by Carlos Castaneda,
Whose Dream Is This?,
What Happens When We Die,
Some of my Dream Experiences,
Last Weeks Accountability Session,
My YouTube Channel Moving Forward,
Lucid Dreaming Expert Robert Waggoner,
Social Anxiety,
The Four Gates of Dreaming,
Robert Monroe and his Out of Body Explorations,
The Link between Dreaming and Art,
and lilDENNiS helps me count to four.

Hope you like, and thanks for listening / watching :)

262 • WHAT DO I WANT?

262 • WHAT DO I WANT?

In this ‘Accountability Session’ episode I ask, What Do I want?

Co-host lilDENNiS was here to help me, and some of the stuff that came up was:

Actionable Steps for Next Week,
Doing Little Things like Sitting in the Park for 10 minutes,
Sleeping,
Eating,
Nature,
Balancing Everything,
Video Games,
Meditating,
Comics,
Making Videos,
Sam Schaeffer’s I Overcame Anxiety Course,
and after I finished doing this podcast I realised … I never asked WHY! I need to ask, WHY Do I want This? That’s how I find the desire!

So That’s another Actionable Step for next week :)

Hope you like this one.

261 • WHAT YOU WANT?

261 • WHAT YOU WANT?

In this ‘About The Tings’ episode I ask What You Want? It’s a walk and talk Dump & Doodle This Month At Art Class Sketching in the Park episode :)

Co-host lilDENNiS was chilling at home, but I got to talk about stuff like:

Finding Balance,
Sketching Outside,
Physical Art Class vs Online Courses,
Getting Older,
How Time Flies,
Being Out In The Rain,
The Shapes of Trees,
Addictive Personality and how it’s both Positive and Negative,
Collecting Comics,
Distractions,
Studying,
and Seagulls Eating Apples.

Hope you like this one.

257 • THIS MONTH AT ART CLASS : FEBRUARY 2023

257 • THIS MONTH AT ART CLASS : FEBRUARY 2023

This month at Art Class, I ave a been mostly Doing My Best :) In this ‘One Time At Art Class‘ episode I look back over the past few weeks of Saturday Morning Sketching Sessions.

Co-host lilDENNiS and Kitty were here to talk about:

Sketching People in Public,
Having Limited Time to Draw,
Trying to Mix Paint Colours,
The Beauty of Decay,
Breaking Habits,
How Birds Wings Look Like Hearts,
Fabulous Figures by Jane Davenport Art Book,
How Fat People are Beautiful Shapes,
Turning Lines into Characters,
and I Love Drawing Old Victorian Lamp Posts :)

Hope you enjoy this month at Art Class episode :)

256 • FRUIT WITH FEELINGS! WITH JOHANNA FORSTER : A CDQ ART-ICKLE

256 • FRUIT WITH FEELINGS! WITH JOHANNA FORSTER : A CDQ ART-ICKLE

In this one lilDENNiS and I look at a juicy lil article, or Art-ickle, entitled ‘Fruit with Feelings! with Johanna Forster’, from issue 20 of the Character Design Quarterly magazine, by 3dtotal publishing.

Some of the topics covered on this one include:

The Language of Lines,
How Emotions Are Everything,
Johanna Forster’s Lovely Shapes,
Staying in the Sketching Phase,
Body Language,
Capturing Contrasting Emotions,
The Grunlings Characters by Johanna Forster,
Drawing Beans,
Asking What Does and Doesn’t Need To Be In Your Drawing,
Being Playful,
and Ways To Overcome the Mind While Drawing.

Hope you find this one as tasty as I did :)

253 • A MOTION MASTERCLASS WITH JOAKIM RIEDINGER : A CDQ ART-ICKLE

253 • A MOTION MASTERCLASS WITH JOAKIM RIEDINGER : A CDQ ART-ICKLE

In this one I look at a lil article, or Art-ickle, entitled ‘A Motion Masterclass with Joakim Riedinger’, from issue 22 of the Character Design Quarterly magazine, by 3dtotal publishing.

Some of the topics covered on this one include:

Capturing Motion,
Thumbnailing,
Action and Reaction,
Entanglement,
Awareness While Drawing,
Learning Rules,
Action Lines,
Thinking and Feeling,
Asking Questions,
Symmetrical Poses,
and How Creating Art is All About The Mind!

Thumbnail for this episode shows the Dancer from the art-ickle, drawn by Joakim Riedinger.

Hope you had fun with this one too :)

246 • CONSUMING STORIES

246 • CONSUMING STORIES

In this one I talk about Consuming Stories, and The Best Way To Experience a Story.

lilDENNiS was here, but I’m not sure I was; Something happened just before recording, and it threw me for a loop.

So While I was a bit distracted, I did me best and still got to talk about stuff like:

Consuming Stores,
Books vs Audio Books,
Most Immersive Stories,
The Original Tomb Raider,
The Importance of The Games Master in Table Top Roll Playing Games,
Are we Characters in a Story?,
Visual Stories vs Using Your Imagination,
Social Anxiety,
Comics vs Novels,
Gesture Drawing,
Everything has Story,
The Best Way To Consume a Story,
and I eat a Mince Pie.

Really hope you enjoy this one :)

244 • THIS MONTH AT ART CLASS : NOVEMBER 2022

244 • THIS MONTH AT ART CLASS : NOVEMBER 2022

This month at Art Class, I ave a been mostly Trying New Tings :) In this ‘One Time At Art Class‘ episode I look back over the past few weeks of Life Drawing at Art Class with the Plymouth Arts Club, People Sketching in Town, and Still Life at Home.

Co-host lilDENNiS and Kitty were here to talk about:

How the Mind Can Kill You,
The Joy of Composition and Design,
Social Anxiety while Sketching People in Public,
Not Feeling Cold While Drawing,
Bringing Nature Inside,
Doing Things You Don’t Want To Do,
The Shape of Legs,
How Life Drawing Shows The Connectedness of The Human Body,
and It’s Advent Calendar Time!

Hope you enjoy this month at Art Class episode :)

240 • THIS MONTH AT ART CLASS : OCTOBER 2022

240 • THIS MONTH AT ART CLASS : OCTOBER 2022

This month, at Art Class I ave a been mostly Making Mistakes :) In this ‘One Time At Art Class‘ episode I look back over the past few weeks of Art Class, Life Drawing, and Urban Sketching with the Plymouth Arts Club.

Co-host lilDENNiS and Kitty join me to talk about tings like:

Drawing People Wearing Glasses,
Art Class and Social Anxiety,
Painting in The Rain,
Singing in Front of People,
How Art Gives You Confidence,
Facing Your Art Fears,
Talking to Strangers,
Making Mistakes,
Rushing Watercolours,
Do You Need To Go Art Class?,
Turning People Into Characters,
and lots of Kitty Kisses!

Hope you enjoy this month at Art Class episode :)