The So Free Art Podcast

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By: Sophie Lawson, Transgender Artist

Art is Powerful, it can change your life, like it has for Transgender Artist Sophie Lawson, who shares not only Drawing and Painting Tips, but how Art can help Heal your life, and allow you to start Facing your Fears.

A WALK AND TALK AROUND A GRAVEYARD IN THE RAIN
#265
04/30/2023

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.


IS THE SUBCONSCIOUS TRAVELLING BACKWARDS THROUGH TIME?
#264
04/23/2023

This 'Dump and Doodle' is a brain dump about The Subconscious, while doing some Doodling. Co-host lilDENNiS sat with Kitty, as I talked about tings like: The Entanglement of Conscious and Subconscious, The Dream Realm, Dying, Endless Loops, Is The Subconscious Travelling Backwards Through Time?, Seeing Spirals as a Circle, Blackholes, Spirits and the Subconscious, The Flow of Time, and the Yin Yang Symbol :) Hope you like.


WHAT DO I WANT?
#263
04/16/2023

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...


WHAT DO I WANT?
#262
04/09/2023

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.


WHAT YOU WANT?
#261
04/02/2023

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.


WALK AND TALK WITH MUM
#260
03/26/2023

This 'About The Tings' episode was a walk and talk with Mum around Saltrum in Plymouth :) Co-host lilDENNiS was at home again, but me and Mum talked about stuff like: Losing Yourself in The Moment, Going Back in Time, Ducks in a Pond, Farting and Burping, Dogs, Trees, The Silence Outside, Noises in the Cafe, and It's a bit Windy :) Hope you enjoy this one.


THE ENTANGLEMENT OF FEAR AND DESIRE
#259
03/19/2023

This 'About The Tings' episode was a walk and talk in the wet windy weather, about the topic of The Entanglement of Fear and Desire :) Co-host lilDENNiS was at home resting, as I talked about stuff like: How Free Will is Our Super Power, Negative Shapes, Social Anxiety, Meditating on Desires, The Importance of Focus, Awareness and Consciousness, How Everything is a Numbers Game, Listening to the Wet Weather Sounds, A Friendly Postman, Birds in the Sky, Baby Steps, Being Entangled with an Entanglement, A Jaffa Cake Song, and It's a bit Windy :) Hope you enjoy this one.


ADDICTION TO BUYING THINGS
#258
03/12/2023

This 'Dump and Doodle' is a brain dump about an Addition to Buying Things, while doing some Doodling. Co-host lilDENNiS was cuddled up with Kitty, as I talked about tings like: Entities In My Head, The Fear of Missing Out, Unhealed Childhood Wounds, Budgeting, Buying Comics, Finding Balance, How In The Moment You Can't Say No, Meditation and Lucid Dreaming, Dealing with Spanners In The Works, Recurring Patterns, Making Mistakes, How It's All About Awareness, What Causes Addiction?, Similarities Between Addiction and Social Anxiety, and lilDENNiS and Kitty have an Extra Long Kiss :) Hope you enjoy.


THIS MONTH AT ART CLASS : FEBRUARY 2023
#257
03/05/2023

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...


CDQ ART-ICKLE 'FRUIT WITH FEELINGS! WITH JOHANNA FORSTER'
#256
02/26/2023

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...