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Your Creative Push

Your Creative Push

The podcast that pushes you to create that thing you've been thinking about.

304: Be a STEWARD of your FOCUS (w/ Matthew Miller)

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Matthew Miller is an artist in Tallahassee, FL who likes to paint natural beauty and human activity from life. Creating live paintings at sports events, music venues, and more, he paints with an energy that can be seen in the final product.

Matthew started painting seriously three years ago because it makes him feel at peace and confident. “I started self-medicating with art therapy,” he says, “and ended up getting addicted.” Matthew is currently finishing a PhD in Philosophy at Florida State University, where he is writing a dissertation about the role of flow states in a good human life. In his free time, he can be seen playing outside, usually without shoes.

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303: It’s never too late to COLOR OUTSIDE THE LINES (w/ Polly Guo)

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Polly Guo is a storyboard artist, currently working for Dreamworks.  She has previously been a storyboard artist for Adventure Time, and she has produced varied personal works such as Gawain’s Girlfriend and the Green Knight and Houdini & Holmes.

Polly lives in Los Angeles with her boyfriend, her rat Brown, and her dog Aggie.

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302: Trust your initial creative energy (w/ Mike Lowery)

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Mike Lowery is an artist and illustrator living Atlanta, Georgia.  His work has been seen on everything from greeting cards to children’s books to gallery walls all over the world.  His illustration clients include Hallmark, Random House, Nick Jr. Magazine, Viking, American Greetings, and Disney, just to name a few.

He is also the co-founder of Paper Ghost, a gallery and studio space in Atlanta, and he is a Professor of Illustration at the Savannah College of Art and Design Atlanta.

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301: Cut 90% to get to the 10% that matters (w/ Sara Fabel)

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Sara Fabel is a Finnish model, illustrator, tattoo artist and actress currently residing in Los Angeles, California.

Sara lived her early and late teenage years in Helsinki, Finland.  She worked as a primary school teacher (grades 1-9) until moving to Australia and pursuing a career as an illustrator and later transferring in to tattooing.  Her tattoo work is well know for it’s bold lifework and fine lines.

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300: Create in a way that makes you smile! (w/ Christina Moyer)

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Christina Moyer is an elementary art teacher from Pennsylvania.  Her personal work includes oil painting, watercolor and paper art.

She is also Youngman Brown’s sister and the illustrator of their collaborative children’s book, The Adventures of Tidy, Messy & VeryMessy, a project that has been in the works for a decade.

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299: All education is self-education (w/ Alexander Soukas)

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Alexander Soukas is a contemporary realist painter from Denver, Colorado.  His serious training in the fine arts began upon attending the Walnut Hill School for the arts, one of five high schools in the country dedicated to rigorous training in music, ballet, theatre, writing, and visual arts.

Unsatisfied with his studies, and desiring to pursue a career as an artist, he began homeschooling as a way of earning his diploma while undertaking an apprenticeship with realist figure painter Jason Polins.  Soukas studied traditional painting and drawing in Boston with Polins for 4 years, where he now visits as a guest instructor at Polins’ atelier, The Boston School of Painting.

After high school, Soukas studied with scholarship, at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in a coordinated program with the University of Pennsylvania for a year before leaving to seek a more rigorous classical training at Studio Incamminati.  While there, he worked for and studied under Nelson Shanks as one of his last apprentices.

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298: LOOSEN UP and your art will too (w/ Koosje Koene)

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Koosje Koene is an artist, teacher and co-founder of Sketchbook Skool. She has studied graphic design and worked as an award-winning photographer but it was her passion for drawing and painting that became her lifelong mission. Her enthusiasm as an illustrator inspired her to share her learnings online and became the basis for Sketchbook Skool today.

Koosje lives in Amsterdam.

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297: How to balance the creative scales (w/ Cassie Stephens)

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Cassie Stephens teaches art at an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee.  She spends a lot of her free time sewing wacky outfits to accompany art lessons, thrift shopping and just making stuff.

She is also the creator and host of the podcast Everyday Art Room, a podcast that offers a glimpse into the world of elementary art and offers advice, stories and ideas to improve your teaching.

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296: WAKE UP and hop into a CREATIVE UNIVERSE (w/ Alatar)

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Alatar is a genderfluid digital artist who creates character-driven adult illustrations. Their work includes both fanart and original content, and attempts to explore a wide range of body types, ethnicities, gender identities and sexualities (with perhaps slightly more attention paid to abs). They are also the host of the podcast Blue Magic, where they interview other creatives in the erotic field.

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295: Achieve FREEDOM through your creative passion (w/ Troy Plota)

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Troy Plota has been an award-winning Professional Photographer for over 30 years. His work has appeared in top magazines including Vanity Fair, GQ, Rolling Stone and many more. His advertising work has also appeared on dozens of billboards in New York’s Times Square, as well as on the Vegas strip.  He has photographed dozens of celebrities like Heidi Klum, Usher, Mariah Carey, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and many more.

Troy has always been on the forefront of technology and gave the Ted Talk titled “The Future of Photography.”  Troy’s latest creation is the digital sharing platform Plotaverse, which also features his award winning app, Plotagraph.  It was the only App featured on the Apple Store for the release of the iPhone X.

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