MIchael Gaughan is a Minneapolis-based painter, educator, performer, musician and friend, and it's an honor to have him on the show. We talk about comedy in painting, sincerity and absurdity, painting from pop culture references, art-school, having a solid value system as an artist and so much more. This is a fun, genuine and enriching conversation about creativity and real life, and I know you'll enjoy it. Happy Thanksgiving!

Dispatch from the studio. Recorded late night sleepy style in classic painter man fashion.   I'm deep in the process but wanted to check-in and say hello. Hello. 

Justine Rivas is a painter and writer based out of Los Angeles, and a good friend of mine. She recently had her MFA thesis exhibition at UCLA, which we get into a little bit.  We also talk about her time as an apprentice for an herbalist that went awry and how she wrote a play about it,  how we met at the San Francisco Art Institute, our short-lived band, balancing sincerity with humor,  psychedelia, dating red flags and green flags, and so much more. 

Justine Rivas- Plateaus at Et Al, San Francisco, CA
Justine Rivas - How to Carry a Cloud at The Valley, Taos, NM 

I answer some listener questions about last week's episode: fantasy movies, Carl Jung, being sensitive. Also some mythology talk and working with pastels. 

Season 2 premiere. We're back. A painting is never finished.