42: Passion

art for all

From Season 3 of "art for all," the Sketchbook Skool podcast. Join artists/authors, Danny Gregory and John Muir Laws in rich discussions about the creative process.
This week John and Danny talk about their lifelong passions and how keeping a sketchbooks has helped deepen them. We also talk about reading in dreams, strategies for dyslexia, vigilance, and remembering the empanada.

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Chapters

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Passion for nature (00:02:02)

3. Working with nature (00:05:13)

4. Gerald Durrell (00:06:22)

5. Danny's passion for books (00:07:45)

6. D.O.G. (00:10:18)

7. Sanity through books (00:12:15)

8. Challenges with dyslexia (00:13:40)

9. Strategies for managing dyslexia (00:16:45)

10. Books and nature (00:20:38)

11. Connecting art with other passions and challenges (00:24:50)

12. Advantage to drawing over writing (00:29:07)

13. Drawing as a means to answering questions (00:30:08)

14. Travel journaling and being intentional in the moment (00:36:35)

15. Labels (00:46:31)

16. Observations (00:51:08)

17. What's your "why" (00:58:05)

18. It takes passion (01:02:10)

19. Learning the empanada (01:04:15)

20. Summing up (01:08:55)