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The So Free Art Podcast

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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.

Location:

United Kingdom

Description:

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.

Language:

English

Contact:

07837670662


Episodes
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265 • A WALK AND TALK AROUND A GRAVEYARD IN THE RAIN

4/30/2023
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.

Duration:00:37:15

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264 • IS THE SUBCONSCIOUS TRAVELLING BACKWARDS THROUGH TIME?

4/23/2023
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.

Duration:00:38:11

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263 • THE ART OF DREAMING BY CARLOS CASTANEDA

4/16/2023
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 his Out of Body Explorations, The Link between Dreaming and Art, and lilDENNiS helps me count to four. Hope you like, and thanks for listening / watching :)

Duration:01:19:11

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262 • WHAT DO I WANT?

4/9/2023
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.

Duration:00:38:17

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261 • WHAT YOU WANT?

4/2/2023
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.

Duration:00:38:05

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260 • WALK AND TALK WITH MUM

3/26/2023
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.

Duration:00:27:39

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259 • THE ENTANGLEMENT OF FEAR AND DESIRE

3/19/2023
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.

Duration:00:24:04

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258 • ADDICTION TO BUYING THINGS

3/12/2023
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.

Duration:00:33:29

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257 • THIS MONTH AT ART CLASS : FEBRUARY 2023

3/5/2023
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 Class episode :)

Duration:00:24:22

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256 • FRUIT WITH FEELINGS! WITH JOHANNA FORSTER : A CDQ ART-ICKLE

2/26/2023
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 I did :)

Duration:00:40:06

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255 • OCD AND MIND ATTACKS

2/19/2023
This 'About The Tings' episode was a walk and talk around Freedom Fields park, with the topic being OCD and Mind Attacks :) Co-host lilDENNiS was at home making love to Kitty, while I talked about stuff like: Negative Shapes, How Art Helps You See The Truth, OCD is an Overload of Inner Thoughts, Mind Attacks and Control, Making Experiments out of Mind Attacks, Social Anxiety, Being Self Aware, Overcoming OCD, Subtlety of the Mind, Being Controlled By Fear, and Me Mum Burps :) Hope you enjoy.

Duration:00:31:15

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254 • MIND ATTACKS – NEGATIVE THOUGHTS DURING CONVERSATIONS

2/12/2023
This one is all about The Mind! Basically, it's Mind Attacks, and the Negative Thoughts I have during Conversations with other Humans. lilDENNiS was here, as was Kitty, as I talked about tings tings like: Being Aware of Thoughts, Focusing My Attention, Being Distracted by Negative Thoughts, Are Voices in The Head Thoughts?, Why Does It Matter If Someone Doesn't Like Me?, Base Level Anxiety, Parents Passing On Their Anxieties, Using Work As A Way To Avoid Feeling Anxious, Thoughts Are Creating Reality, Dealing With Mind Attacks, Social Anxiety, How The Meditation State, The Sleep State, and The Waking State Are All About Awareness, Seeing Anxiety as A Flower that Needs Uprooting, and I talk about Going Into Other Peoples Heads To Hear Their Thoughts :) Hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening / watching :)

Duration:00:47:14

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253 • A MOTION MASTERCLASS WITH JOAKIM RIEDINGER : A CDQ ART-ICKLE

2/5/2023
In this one I look at a lil article, or Art-ickle, entitled 'A Motion Masterclass with Joakim Riedinger', from issue 22 of the Character Design Quarterly magazine, by 3dtotal publishing. Some of the topics covered on this one include: Capturing Motion, Thumbnailing, Action and Reaction, Entanglement, Awareness While Drawing, Learning Rules, Action Lines, Thinking and Feeling, Asking Questions, Symmetrical Poses, and How Creating Art is All About The Mind! Thumbnail for this episode shows the Dancer from the art-ickle, drawn by Joakim Riedinger. Hope you had fun with this one too :)

Duration:00:27:49

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252 • TIME

1/29/2023
This 'Dump and Doodle' is a brain dump about Time, while doing some Doodling. Co-host lilDENNiS sat with Kitty, as I talked about tings like: Remote Viewing, Time Travel, Being Outside of Time, The Dream Realm and Time, Space Time Position Points, If You Could Stop Time What Would You Do?, Would You Rather Go To The Past or the Future?, Could You Get Stuck in a Timelessness Dream Experience?, Consciousness and Fractals, GOD and Time, DNA and Time, and I Wonder, Do Houses You Never Go Inside Of, Really Have People In Them? :) Hope you enjoy.

Duration:00:54:06

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251 • MURDERERS AND SYNCHRONICITY

1/22/2023
This 'About The Tings' episode was a walk and talk around the squirrel park, about Murderers and Synchronicity :) Co-host lilDENNiS was at home, but I got to talk about tings like: Being In The Wrong Place At The Wrong Time, How You Could Have Ended Up In Prison, The TV Show I Am A Killer on Netflix, The Law in America, My Childhood, The Childhood of a Criminal, What is Synchronicity?, Whose Responsible For A Murder?, Being in Prison, Is Killing a Bad Person Good?, How There's a Voice Behind The Dream, Going To Sleep Within a Dream, How Life is Like a Dream, and Me Hands Were Cold! Hope you enjoy.

Duration:00:32:32

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250 • 250 FUN FACTS ABOUT ME – SOPHIE LAWSON

1/15/2023
This 250 celebration episode was all about 250 Fun Facts About me - Sophie Lawson. Thank you so much for listening and watching this podcast over the years. It does mean a lot, and I really hope you've enjoyed them, and have fun with this one. Co-host lilDENNiS was here, as we talked about tings like: My Mum Burping, Chasing My Sister Round The House with Knifes, My Old Video Game YouTube Channel, The Sound of Water, How I Sometimes Pee The Bed, Transgender People Being Possessed by Spirits, Taking Notes with Filing Cards, Go Karting with Dad, Being Chased By The Police, Sunsets, Beans of Toast, Getting to 250 Episodes, Formula One in the 90's, Car Boot Sales and Charity Shops, Buying Comics, Being Out At Night, Getting a Second Day Job, Art Magazines, Playing Guitar, Social Anxiety, Going Out of Body, Some of My Favourite Tings, Eating Apples, and we have a lil Sing Song :) Hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening / watching :)

Duration:02:31:35

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249 • BEHIND HER EYES TV SHOW REVIEW

1/8/2023
This 'About The Tings' episode is all about Behind Her Eyes on Netflix ... it's a walk and talk Behind Her Eyes TV Show Review :) Co-host lilDENNiS wasn't here for this one, but I got to talk about tings like: The Amount of Characters in a Story, Behind Her Eyes Spoilers, Lucid Dreaming, Dr. David Ferguson, Louise Barnsley, Adele Ferguson, Rob Hoyle, Night Terrors, The Out of Body State, Spirit Possession, The Art of Dreaming by Carlos Castaneda, Dreaming and Psychology, The Silver Cord, Behind Her Eyes Theories, Could Someone Take Over Your Body When You Die?, YouTuber Ally Law, Getting Trapped In Another Person's Body, and It's a Bit Windy! Hope you like this one.

Duration:00:34:51

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248 • THE DREAM REALM

1/1/2023
This 'Dump and Doodle' is a brain dump about The Dream Realm, while doing some Doodling. Co-host lilDENNiS sat quietly for this one, as we talked about tings like: False Awakenings, Sun Gazing, Dying, The Art of Dreaming by Carlos Castaneda, Going Out of Body, Balls of Awareness, Is the Dream Realm the Same as The Spirit Realm?, Being Reborn as a Baby with All The Wisdom, How Nothing is Ever Forgotten, Cubes Within Cubes, Going to Sleep Within Dreams, Dream Schools, Staring At Stuff, and I draw a Smiley Face :) Hope you enjoy.

Duration:00:47:56

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247 • A CHRISTMAS MEDITATION TYPE THING

12/25/2022
In this one I do a Christmas Meditation Type Thing. lilDENNiS was here, as were the rest of the boys and Kitty, to talk about Christmas and sort of just be grateful for everything :) There were tings like this: Santa Pull His Trousers Down, I go Exploring a Cave like Lara Croft, and there's a lil bit of Christmas Music :) Happy Christmas!

Duration:00:16:45

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246 • CONSUMING STORIES

12/18/2022
In this one I talk about Consuming Stories, and The Best Way To Experience a Story. lilDENNiS was here, but I'm not sure I was; Something happened just before recording, and it threw me for a loop. So While I was a bit distracted, I did me best and still got to talk about stuff like: Consuming Stores, Books vs Audio Books, Most Immersive Stories, The Original Tomb Raider, The Importance of The Games Master in Table Top Roll Playing Games, Are we Characters in a Story?, Visual Stories vs Using Your Imagination, Social Anxiety, Comics vs Novels, Gesture Drawing, Everything has Story, The Best Way To Consume a Story, and I eat a Mince Pie. Really hope you enjoy this one :)

Duration:00:23:22