Are you constantly comparing your art to other artists? Does it seem like everyone on Instagram is making better stuff than you?  Let's talk about these issues and better understand where your art stands and why you shouldn't give up! Get your free copy of Danny's book, The Seven Deadly Sins of Creativity, at http://sketchbookskool.com/sin Join Danny Gregory and Jill Badonsky for Art for All, the Sketchbook Skool podcast to discuss this and other topics impacting creative people like...

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. Join Danny Gregory and Jill Badonsky for the new season of Art for All, the Sketchbook Skool podcast, to discuss this and other topics impacting creative people like us. These experienced creative...

Welcome to the 5th  season of Art for All, the Sketchbook Skool podcast. Join Danny Gregory and this season's cohost, Jill Badonsky, as they discuss creative blocks and challenges and how to get it together, get inspired, and get to work. Today we discuss: Are you waiting until you quit your job or retire to find the time to make art?  Are you too busy to de-stress with some art-making? Do you feel guilty when you take the time to draw? Let's talk about these issues and come up with some...

Welcome to the 5th  season of Art for All, the Sketchbook Skool podcast . Join Danny Gregory and this season's cohost, Jill Badonsky, as they discuss creative blocks and challenges and how to get it together, get inspired, and get to work. Today we discuss:  Why is it so hard to get started on a new project?  Whether it's beginning a new sketchbook or writing the first sentence of a novel, starting has a unique set of challenges. Each episode is recorded in front of a live audience that YOU...

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. She is the creator of Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching Certification training. Jill facilitates workshops...

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...

Michelle Meeker has been an animator at Pixar and Dreamworks and teaches at the Art Institute. She's also a student at Sketchbook Skool. Michelle's comic diary: https://www.instagram.com/totallytrueevents/ Get your free ebook and essays at DannysEssays.com [email protected] Subscribe to Danny's weekly Essay at dannysessays.com. Watch the video of this interview on YouTube: https://skool.tiny.us/podvideos And learn more at sketchbookskool.com

Najeeb Tarazi is a Lebanese-American director based in Los Angeles. His new short film “One More Try” was recently called “mesmerizing”, “masterful”, and “brilliant chaos” by Tony Hawk. His 2019 music video “Walk the Walk” screened at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival. He got his start in film as a technical director at Pixar, where he worked on films like Toy Story 3 and Monsters University. He has a BA in Physics from Harvard College. Get your free ebook and essays at DannysEssays.com ...

This week, Danny chats with Miriam Schulman.  She's an artist, teacher, podcast host, and author of Artpreneur: The Step-by-Step Guide to Making a Sustainable Living from your Creativity. Scheduled for release in February 2023, it's a book about how to price and market your art while kicking the starving artist mentality to the curb. It's a very inclusive book with artist examples from all genders, backgrounds, and walks of life.  schulmanart.com https://www.schulmanart.com/podcast/ Get...

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...

This week, Danny chats with Mark Golden, the CEO and Co-founder of Golden Artist Colors. Mark began the company in 1980 with 4 employees, his father Sam Golden, mother Adele and wife Barbara. Originating in a cow barn on his parents’ retirement home in rural Columbus, NY, the company made and delivered custom paint colors for artists in Manhattan. GOLDEN’s staff of full-time Employee Owners is now 250, with facilities in Columbus as well as Norwich, NY. GOLDEN sells its products in over 60...

This week, Danny talks to Beth Trembley about her new graphic novel, Look Again and how making art helped her process a traumatic event. About Beth: Beth grew up knowing herself to be a kid who could write but who could not draw. Everyone else in the family created visual art, but she just couldn't make anything that looked good.  In her late thirties, she realized that she could probably become a better draw-er if she approached it the way she approached writing:  daily practice, lots of...

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. You can support the Foundation's work at their upcoming benefit on Friday, November 4th from 6 to 9 pm. For tickets and information about Amos, see amoslemon.org. You can also find exhibit information at stayalivemakeart.org Get your free ebook and essays at DannysEssays.com [email protected] ...

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.  Seth teaches in our Spark program.  Learn more here.visit SethApter.comGet your free ebook and essays at...

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.  Helen teaches in our Spark program.  Learn more here.Helen's blog, drawdrawdrawGet your free ebook and essays at DannysEssays.com ...

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.  Her workshop, Yummy Color, will take place on October 15, 2022. Sign up at our website: Her Youtube ChannelHer blogSponsored by Derwent.Get your free ebook and essays at DannysEssays.com ...

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.   Get your free ebook and essays at DannysEssays.com ...

 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. Tom's website Get your free ebook and essays at DannysEssays.com [email protected]

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. Koosje's book:   I am still great friends with Koosje and in fact, she still teaches a regular class in...

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.  Season Three of this podcast was an extended conversation between Jack and me. For more visit johnmuirlaws.com Get your free ebook and essays at DannysEssays.com [email protected]

This week John and Danny talk about art and healing. 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. Get your free ebook and essays at DannysEssays.com [email protected] your free ebook and essays at DannysEssays.com [email protected] your free ebook and essays at DannysEssays.com ...

This week John and Danny talk about inspiration. 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. Get your free ebook and essays at DannysEssays.com [email protected] your free ebook and essays at DannysEssays.com [email protected]

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.  Get your free ebook and essays at DannysEssays.com [email protected]

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.  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. Get your free ebook and essays at DannysEssays.com [email protected]