When I’m driving to and from work, I get what is effectively downtime, and as that is such a precious commodity to me; I like to pack as much ‘Art’ in there as possible, so I began listening to appropriately themed podcasts a couple of years ago after I started desperately trying to learn to draw, as an attempt at stealing some extra productivity.
Now there are a lot of not so great podcasts out there, factors such as lack of useful content and poor quality audio (which is real important on a car stereo over engine noise) are real important. So I’d love to hear about any podcasts or other audio streams that any of you recommend. Here’s my list:-
Suggested Donation:- http://www.suggesteddonationpodcast.com/blog
They turned me on to a lot of artists I’d not come across - not least an interview with one Anthony Waichulis, without whom I would not be on this forum or be improving my skills so efficiently. Not bad huh! Ted and Tony are fantastic artists and both have excellent Craftsy tutorials available which I really recommend too.
The Creative Endeavour:- https://www.andrewtischler.com/podcast/
Andrew Tischler- a superb (predominantly landscape) artist. The podcast has a similar format as Suggested Donation, but with just one dude and hence less cameraderie (or goofing off, depending on how you like it), good quality audio, it’s also on youtube if you like that format. Virgil Elliott is even on one episode no doubt to tell us why our umbers sink, and that liquin is Satans varnish.
The Sculptors Funeral:- http://www.thesculptorsfuneral.com/episodes
Now I’m not especially into sculpture but this podcast has such a wealth of historical information and factual content that it is really great, and of course there is good crossover as a lot of ‘famous painters’ like Michelangelo, Leonardo, etc, were of course sculptors (among other things) so there’s a lot of interesting background there too. Seriously good content. Especially if you just enjoy history in general.
Then, there are a lot of more ‘underground’ podcasts which don’t appear on Apple’s radar, so you have to find/play them via a weblink:-
Skill-Based Art:- http://skillbasedart.weebly.com/podcasts.html
This has some real interesting stuff on, I discovered it relatively recently, you can listen via the soundcloud app too (handy while driving!) Think there’s some affiliation with the Art Renewal Centre, again interesting interviews with art folk.
Martinho Correia:- https://martinhocorreia.com/blog/
The audio links aren’t that obvious but there’s some more obscure stuff here, Martinho studied and then taught at the Angel Academy for a number of years.
There are a lot of others too but that don’t quite hit the mark for me for various reasons (just my opinion - you might love them!) but they still fill an artistic gap if you’ve listened to everything else, like the Proko one (https://www.proko.com/draftsmen-podcast/) and the Art Grind Podcast (https://www.artgrindpodcast.com) for example.
Will add to this if I find anything else particularly interesting, I’m very interested to hear anyone else’s input!
