Episodes

  • #124 "Salmon Chase"
    Nov 16 2021

    Welcome back to the only art podcast that deserves to exist! In this episode we talk about:

    11:00 How to sell at art shows, maybe?
    28:30 Brainstorming ideas for how to present a narrative without spoon-feeding your audience
    41:30 A viral Reddit post about a photographer who deleted wedding photos in front of the groom
    1:02:20 The mural festival Josh has been working on behind the scenes
    1:29:30 The new Dune movie and dumb design choices in TV shows
    1:39:12 discovering the true identity of Bigfoot!

    Check out Josh's website on Black Friday for new merch!

    www.joshualawyer.com

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    1 hr and 50 mins
  • #123 Be Social-er
    Oct 6 2021

    Oops pow surprise! We are back with a new episode without waiting 3 months. In this one we talk about:

    • The "Couch Guy" on TikTok
    • Getting your foot in the door
    • Staying true to your art vs. going the safe route
    • Lacking 'imposter syndrome' and the hierarchy of needs
    • Which animal would you want to be reincarnated as?
    • The "Take The Money And Run" art stunt
    • How NFTs can help combat art world BS
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    1 hr and 53 mins
  • #122 Professor YouTube
    Sep 14 2021

    It's a mini-ish episode! ...? In this one, Josh and Sergio talk about

    • The appropriateness of hugs in this day and age
    • Sergio's Sonoma Plein Air success
    • The pros and cons of being self-taught
    • Learning how to learn
    • The secret to selling more art?

    Sergio's upcoming online workshop:

    https://etchrstudio.com/products/sergio-lopez-miniworkshop-september-17

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    54 mins
  • #121 Scott W. Prior "Robot Jesus Legs"
    Sep 7 2021

    Scott W. Prior comes back to the show to talk about:

    • Dealing with weird people while doing plein air
    • The difficulties of painting a mosh pit
    • Finding cool spots to paint
    • Josh explains why NFTs are important
    • Scott's history of dealing with galleries
    • Selling the Golden Gate Bridge painting
    • Bartering with and trading for paintings
    • Getting old and dealing with injuries
    • Picking the theme music for driving off the Grand Canyon!

    Come check out Scott and Sergio's work for #sonomapleinair on Saturday the 11th at Sonoma Square!

    If you do the #scottwpriorchallenge (listen to the very end), film it and tag us! ;)

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    2 hrs and 59 mins
  • #120 "Muy Bueno Job"
    Aug 15 2021

    And we're back! In this episode:

    •  Sergio recaps his month in Colorado and Idaho
    • Why California is the best state,
    • Why Josh doesn't care for flags
    • A Florida Man who thought Josh couldn't speak English
    • Doing a mural in the Florida summer
    • The logistics of flying to do a mural
    • Good and bad zoos and aquariums
    • Sergio wanting to go deeper into teaching
    • Josh's @paintguide takeover
    • How watching TikTok before bed may cause plane crashes.

    Sergio's free live Youtube demo registration: https://youtu.be/0236RgNi92k

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    1 hr and 59 mins
  • #119 "Praybe Babies"
    Jun 2 2021

    We're back! Didja miss us? That's ok, we don't care either, we're PC's! In this episode, we talk about what we've been up to over the past couple of months, the concept of acquiring taste, people hating the artist "fnnch" for the wrong reasons, bad advice flying around on Facebook groups, and presenting art as entertainment on social media.

    Sergio's new webpage: www.sergiolopezfineart.com

    The Mural Project: https://www.instagram.com/the.mural.project/

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    1 hr and 50 mins
  • #118 Drawing A Line In The Stone/Just Another Man Named Monday
    Mar 24 2021

    Sergio and Josh talk about the two types of deaths (00:08:26), how dreams abstracting reality parallels art (00:17:27), everyone having a line between good and bad art (00:28:18), what bothers them the most about the “Subway Sketcher” (00:40:42), answer a couple of listener questions including if they would ever do sculpture (00:51:35), how a student should handle a professor making racially insensitive art (00:59:51), if cats know what color they are (01:09:28), and more. They discuss intent vs interpretation further (01:15:09), the show “Wanda Vision” (01:28:10), and Josh shares the most terrifying thing that he’s ever done, and it was just recent! 

    Catch Sergio’s gouache course launch party for free by signing up here: https://bit.ly/GouachePartyForm

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    1 hr and 51 mins
  • #117 Non-Fudge-Able Tokens
    Mar 9 2021

    In this episode: 

    • Sergio’s half-assed history lesson of the Salton Sea
    • The unfriendliness of Julian California
    • Why Josh’s recent mural project fell through
    • Why it’s hard for Josh to make a hat
    • What are NFTs and how they can transform the world of selling art digitally
    • A Banksy piece getting caught up in the hype
    • Josh getting into a tiff with the viral fake subway-sketcher guy
    • MJ’s white-guy-face-blindness
    • Props to Blake Neubert’s new painting series

     

    Sergio’s new gouache course: http://bit.ly/GouachePaintingMadeEasy

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    1 hr and 53 mins