Art Horse
Fiona and Jess
A silly and serious podcast about creativity and stepping out of your comfort zone.
A silly and serious podcast about creativity and stepping out of your comfort zone.
Fiona paints herself as a child and experiences a migraine attack, both of which turn into opportunities to let go of some guilt and practic...
Fiona experiences what it’s like to be a fully-employed human with only evenings and weekends to be creative, but finds it surprisingly easy...
Painter Emily Powell chats with Fiona and Jess about how she elbowed her way into a painting career. She encourages Fiona to go big instead ...
Fiona and Jess look forward to the creative dreams and schemes of 2021. Jess resolves to paint BIG and start budgeting for creative enrichme...
Jess and Fiona take stock of this past year’s successes, failures, baby steps, and big creative shifts.Fiona, a chronic dabbler, looks back ...
Fiona turns to science for her colour palette with breathtaking results, and is surprised to find Julia Cameron’s wisdom turn up in a book a...
Jess finds her weaving flow with a rug for ants, and Fiona accidentally goes slaughterhouse when she means to go whimsical. Both reflect on ...
Fiona breaks through last week’s creative block and expresses some heavy emotions in the form of PRIVATE, mom, emo-as-hell song lyrics. Insp...
Fiona hones her technical skills by struggling through a big video project, experiences severe blog-writer’s-block, and attempts to become a...
Jess makes some “terrible” sketches and knits her needle down to a stump. Fiona finds some chewy healing and growth in a Montreal-style bage...
Fiona expresses some COVID anxiety with her first ever collage and writes an accidental poem about pain and depression. Jess hunts for treas...
Jess worries about a Big Purchase (an online course for illustrators!?) and knits up a storm. Fiona battens down the hatches in another week...
Jess single-handedly causes the apocalypse, cancels Christmas, and is taunted by $500 pencil crayons – however, she sure does mix some media...
Jess lives out the arrival fallacy when she tries to celebrate and unexpectedly experiences depression. Fiona turns unsatisfactory paintings...
Fiona paints in full-on flow, dissects some big laughs, and takes a baby step towards something she really cares about - the lols. Jess lear...
Fiona endures a week without yellow paint and asks the internet how to make jokes. Jess’s ego takes a hit when a thoughtful piece of fEeDbAc...
Fiona manages to squeeze a little bit of painting and Artist’s Waying into a big transition week, while Jess takes a bite out of a few big p...
Jess reflects on a moment of self-deprecation from last week, and transforms some seemingly frivolous childhood memories by writing them dow...
Fiona and Jess chat with Sarah about work, life, work life, and life work. This conversation leaves us with more questions than answers: How...
Fiona discovers a new way to punctuate the passage of pandemic days through her daily diary practice and enlists Jess (and you) as a witness...
On Thursday, September 10th, 9PM EST we're gonna have a zoom call and do a little drawing + writing exercise together (40 mins). Wanna come?...
Fiona wards off discouragement when her bonsai project turns out to be more complicated than expected, tackles her perfectionist tendencies ...
Jess recognizes some patterns of low self-worth, thrills herself with a daily diary, and paints some everyday beauty (read: nudies). Fiona l...
Jess makes art on the road in imperfect conditions and Fiona draws spontaneously --- the Artist’s Way is working! Both air their (not incons...
Fiona finds comfort in colouring books this week as she reels from a one-two punch that will change the course of her life ... for better? J...
Fiona and Jess chat with their friend Jackie about just doing the thing you love with a shrug and a smile. You’ll love this episode if produ...
Jess’s zest for a creative project goes down the toilet. Fiona delivers a screed on her feelings about Amanda Palmer’s “the Art of Asking” f...
Delving into the past brings frustration for Jess and inspiration for Fiona. Jess tackles a tiny fiber art project and explores possible rea...
Fiona beads. A lot. Like, a LOT. Jess frantically bails out the sinking ship that is an ambitious pastry project. Both struggle to work on t...
Fiona sells the craft supplies that are guilt tripping her and takes a painting workshop with her Instagram art crush. Jess is stood up by c...
Fiona copies a piece of modern art and Jess experiences life without Birdstrips. Both share some time tested strategies for avoiding difficu...
Fiona feels overwhelmed by creative possibility and Jess falls into the gap between the stories she wants to tell and the ones that come out...
Fiona’s first self-portrait in years suffers some proportion problems, but she recognizes an important connection between creative energy an...
Fiona experiences the growing pains that come with trying to orient her life in a new direction; this involves a frenzied 4-hour late-night ...
This week, Fiona realizes the value of “good enough” while doing her makeup, and digs into her past to try to discover why she feels jealous...
This week, Fiona spends a day without the internet to trick herself into doing art (and do, she does). r/PrisonHooch inspires Jess to take a...
This week, Fiona becomes a clay jewelry guru and goes down a slippery spending slope. Jess finally puts to rest some musical "Why Me's". We ...
Hi. We're Fiona and Jess, two regular every-day people in pursuit of a more creative life. This episode gives you a bit of a back story on w...