Episodes

This lil Piggy went to Market, and ended up becoming Addicted to Buying Tings ... Addiction, that's the topic of this weeks episode. I talk about being Addicted to Buying Videogames, being Addicted to Buying Art Books, being Addicted to Buying Dresses and Shoes, but, how I'm Overcoming Addiction with the help of Awareness and Saying NO! My conclusion though? I think You can have your Cake and Eat It, you just Can't Eat It All At Once ... have a lil Slice Now and Again :) I also talk about Limiti...

For this weeks episode, I takes a look at the book Lucid Dreaming : Gateway to the Inner Self, by Robert Waggoner. It's a book I recently finished, and found to be a very fascinating deep dive into the world of Lucid Dreaming. I also talk about this cat that keeps jumping in the window bringing me dead mice and birds, a Dream where I'm sure I Saw the Spirit of a Dead Bird pass over, and there's a bit about Automatic Writing too. Hope you enjoy :)

What are Bogies? Just one of the questions I pose on this weeks episode, where I talk about Illness and tings like: How Lewis Hamilton being Ill inspired me, Even Monks get ill, The Universe is Always in Control, How we are Fragile Beings, I like Sneezing, You maybe Can't Control illness, but you Can Control How You Respond to it. Being positive while being ill seems to come down to Awareness, everything seems to be about Awareness! Hope you enjoy this one :)

The So Free Art Podcast is heading in a new direction, where it will be more Art and Tings, less Tings and Art :) This episode's about Focus, Discipline, Studying, Embracing Fears, Awareness, and Internal Burps lol Moving forward each episode will look at Courses, Art Books and Articles I've studied that week, and in the process it may allow me to Learn that I haven't Learnt what I'm Learning :) Lucid Dreaming and stuff will still be on the show, but they'll be squeezed into a single episode cal...

Being with Nature Creates Memorable Experiences, and on this podcast, I talk about a few of the recent ones I've had Studying Creatures while Urban Sketching. Including: How I've started to Fall in Love with the Simple Shapes of Boats, How Nature creates Perfect Shapes, and questions like, Would a Butterfly by Beautiful without Wings?, Why do we Find Spiders Scary?, Do Seagulls have Telepathic Abilities?, What's life like for a Snail?, and Do Dragonflies look like Helicopters or do Helicopters l...

Death. On this one I talk about Why I think it's good to think about Death from Time to Time, How it can Help You Appreciate People in your Life More, How it can Help You Face Fears, Achieve Goals and Lead to you becoming a Better Artist and Human Being. I also ask, Are we Dead already?, What Happens during the Death Process? and Are Dreams Linked to the Death Realm? Hope you like this one :)

This one's about the Lucid Dreaming, and some of My Recent Lucid Dream Experiences. Including: a Self Aware Taxi Driver who drove me into a Previous Dream, moving stone blocks with my Mind, becoming a Ghost in another Reality, getting Distracted by Naked Breasts, and a house I couldn't Escape from, resulting in a string of False Awakenings ... there's even a lil story about a Purring cat who was sat on my bed. Hope you enjoy this one, Sweet Dreams :)

Inking, Sketching, Watercolouring and Digital Painting; I talk about all the tings I learnt from the Cats of June 30 Day Art Challenge. There was so much, like how Confidence really shows in your Lines when Inking, how Digital Painting leaves me Exhausted, and how Sketching is a great way to Study other Artists work. I recorded this one down Saltrum, the local woods, and not only were quite a few people were out walking their lil doggies which makes for some fun social moments, but I found a lil...

Get outside with Nature, the voice in my head kept saying, so I did, and I took lil Dennis with me to record this podcast while walking through the woods of Saltrum, before doing a spot of Sunbathing :) It ends up being a discussion about Doing Too Much Stuff, how Nature helps in Finding Balance, and there's a lot about Facing Fears. I tell a story about these pink sunglasses I started wearing in 2015 that changed my life, by helping me overcome some of my biggest fears. Fear seems to be the rec...

' Talk About Psychedelics ' was this weeks random topic, and it ends up being a right trippy episode talking about, Lucid Dreaming, Mushrooms vs Technology, and how Fear appears to be Controlling Society. I also wonder, Are Our Memories Really Dreams?, Are Mushrooms Creating Our Dreams?, and Are Psychedelics Bad, or have we been lied to? I also talk about Why Sketching in Crappy Sketchbooks is a good idea, a Lucid Dreaming Stabilisation Technique Steve Job and I Created within a Lucid Dream lol,...

From Arsonist to Artist, this one's all about Change ... ' Read one of your Blog Posts ' was this weeks lil topic, until I decided naa, can't be bothered lol and pulled out another one ... ' Talk About Change ' is what came up, and it ends up being a very random episode where I Break the Rules, Nearly Set Fire to lil Dennis and talk about how I used to be an Arsonist but changed into an Artist :) I discuss how Drawing is like life, in that it's constantly changing, and share another Lucid Dream,...

' Read one of your Diary Entries - Experiences ' was this weeks lil topic, and it ends up being a pretty Deep conversation about the Power of Affirmations. I talk about going to Art Class as me for the first time, how all Beliefs are both True and Lies at the same time, and a recent Negative Mental Relapse which strangely fits into the episode nicely, in order to highlight just how Important and Powerful Daily Affirmations are in helping you to Face Your Fears ... there's even a bit about the Ca...

'Read one of your Blog Posts - 30 in 30 Painting Challenge' was this weeks random topic, and it ends up being a talk about how Fun, Freeing and Messy Painting Is, How Art Challenges help make you more adaptable, confident and less of a Perfectionist, and how Writing while doing an Art Challenge is a good way to learn more about your art and yourself. Hope you like this one :)

Dennis had a week off this week, so instead of a random topic, I talk about Haters. Why do Haters Hate? It's a nice lil discussion that comes full circle at the end, when I start talking about Lucid Dreaming and how you can use them to start facing your fears. I also share a fun way of turning Haters into something positive, that I'm calling the Ice Cream Haters 10, and there's a lil bit about a new Art Challenge called the Cats of June 2019. As always, hope you enjoy it :)

'Read One of your Laurels Gender Identity Clinic Visit Diary Entries' was this weeks lil topic, and it turns into a discussion about Dealing with Deep Mental Issues, Social Anxiety, Ancient Civilisations, Do we have Multiple Spirits inside of us?, Are Animals Transgender? ... this one goes all over the place, and me camera conks out half way, so there's even some close up footage of the Moon if you watch the video version. Hope you like it :)

'Talk About Sacrifice' was this weeks lil topic, not the human kind, but the every day sort of sacrifice :) It ends up going all over the place talking about the Struggles of Pursuing a Passion, while still getting the Bills Paid, what tings you Should and Shouldn't be Sacrificing, how Transitioning is maybe a Distraction, and how sometimes I feel like Life before Art was so much Simpler ... hope you find it interesting :)

'You Don't Need Social Media' was this weeks lil topic, and I came away from this one thinking, Social Media is a Paradox, because as an Artist ... you don't need it, but you also do need it. Or do you? Maybe you only Feel like you need it? It's fascinating, but it seems to be about finding balance so that Social Media supports your Art Adventure, instead of becoming the Journey. Hope you enjoy this one.

'Take off your Hat and Talk about your Hair' was this weeks random topic, selected by new employee Dennis the Doggy lol This was a scary episode, where I show my bald patches on camera and talk about my Hair Insecurities and Self Acceptance; I almost didn't release this one, through Fear of what people may say, but as I talk about on the episode ... the only way to deal with Insecurities is to start talking about them, which will hopefully lead to Self Acceptance. Hope you find this one interest...

'What are you currently Struggling with?', is this weeks random topic ... and it ends up being an episode about the Struggles of trying to Curate and Focus an Instagram feed: How do you decide what to focus on, when multiple Passions seem right? Do you even need to curate an Instagram Feed? Why is Focus so bleeding hard? lol This one's a bit like being a pinball bouncing around inside my brain as I try to work out what to do. Hope you like this one :)

'Talk about your Families Reaction to you being Transgender' was this weeks random topic. I talk about my experience of Coming Out As Transgender with my Mum, Dad, Niece, Nephew, and Sister; even ringing my Sister up at the end to talk about how she feels about me being Transgender. Hope you like this one :)

This be the first of the new format, where I have 15 minutes to talk about a random topic :) The subject for this episode was ... 'Talk About My SVSLearn Creative Composition Study Notes'; it ends up mostly being about: The Importance of Thumbnails, How Nature Uses Fractals to Create Tings, and How Designing is just as much Fun As Drawing :) Hope you like it.

This one's about Iterating in Public, and how I'm going to try a new format for the show. I also talk a lil about my time at a recent Life Drawing class with the amazing Ian Barlow, and a few other bits and bobs. Hope you enjoy it :)

This was a weird one! I was trying to record a different episode talking about some of my Inspirational People, but it was taking so long I thought ... let's make this weeks topic about how stuff takes longer than you think :) Turns out there's a name for it too, it's called Hofstadter's Law. Hope you enjoy this lil one :)

Something changed after last weeks fast of not eating any food for 50 hours, because ever since I've felt like a different person. It's Time for Change, and this episode is all about it, Sacrifice and dealing with Videogame Addiction. It's also episode 50, so to celebrate, I filmed this one in front of the webcam for YouTube. Woohoo! Hope you like this one :)