Mentioned on this week's show:

• The Accidental Creative - resources for creative pros
• My friend Jo Oakley - her paintings
• My friend Tonya who inspired the topic this week! Listen to her "family" themed podcast Dancing with Elephants (Ton is also a copywriter, so a creative too.)
• ACEO paintings
• Google Reader - get all your RSS feeds (ie. blogs you subscribe to!) in one place
• My drypoint and charcoal drawings on my blog
• Greenwich Market

Today I give advice to other artists about art fairs! This is something I'm asked about a lot, since I've done a lot of artist fairs, so hopefully there's some tips here that'll help!

A wee apology in advance: I lost a lot of editing time yesterday when Audacity crashed. In addition I decided to play with splicing together my audio with snippets of an art fair meeting yesterday at Skylark Gallery. (Thanks to the artists at Skylark who were happy to be recorded!) Some of the jumps aren't great, I need to find some good segway music or sounds. A few blips and bits where I'm trying to edit out my "and"s and "umm"s, and I'm still getting to grips with adjusting the levels and peak amplitudes and stuff, especially trying to match recordings from different places.

Mentioned on this week's show:
Skylark Gallery
The Chelsea Art Fair

This week I have artist and friend Jo Ashby over for coffee and croissants while she has a look at my Blurb books. We talk about the books, about my paintings and photographs, and bits of other stuff. It winds down with sounds from Greenwich, recorded specially for listener Sue in France.
At one point Jo talks about the flecks of white of waves so it's worth having a look at her sea paintings so you can see what she means by the difference in our work. (Jo also paints seascapes.)

Mentioned on the show:
Jo Ashby, painter
www.tina-m-books.com : My books
Blurb book creation
Skylark Gallery
Greenwich Market
Sue Lishman, artist
You can also subscribe or listen to the podcast direct at StudioWaves.

Sometimes it's easy to forget that technology you're used to, other people find alien! A few people just couldn't find out how to listen. Firstly, remember that a podcast is just an MP3 file. It's just a music or audio file that plays in your internet browser. Nothing fancy or strange. :) So here are some points and tips for people new to listening to podcasts:

• On the StudioWaves.libsyn.com page you can click on the little grey "pod" button to listen to the podcast. This will open a page with the MP3 file in it, which will load and then play.

• On my Blogger page you can click on the little blue "podcast" button and the same thing will happen - this will open a page with the MP3 file in it, which will load and then play.

• Alternatively, on either site, you can download the file by right-clicking (or alt-clicking) and choosing "Save File as" or "Save Link as". Then you can save the MP3 file directly to your computer and play it in whatever sound or music programme you prefer. You can also download the file directly for putting it onto your MP3 player (such as an iPod)

• You can also subscribe to the podcast! Click on the little orange and grey "RSS" button in the StudioWaves.libsyn.com page. Clicking this brings up a new page where at the top you have options for how you want to subscribe. If none of these makes sense to you, don't worry about it - and see below for what I'm going to improve.

What am I going to do? After all, this podcast is my responsibility and I want to make it as easy as possible for you! I ask that you bear with me a little bit because some of this podcasting promotional stuff is new to me too.

• Firstly each post from now on, on BOTH sites, is going to include an easy obvious "listen" button.

• Second, I'm going to try and make subscriptions easier. I will figure out how to include an email subscription option and an iTunes option.

• Thirdly, I promise that the podcasts will ALWAYS be posted in my Blogger blog too. So if you already subscribe to my regular blog then you will see the updates anyway. You don't ever need to worry about the StudioWaves.libsyn.com webpage!

• And finally, I'm going to try and figure out how to embed the audio in the blog post itself. I've seen podcasts that just have a little player included right in the post, so I'll try to figure that out!

Thanks for reading. And listening! In case you missed it, the very first podcast is here Listen Now.

StudioWaves Podcast 1:
So what *does* an artist talk to herself about in the studio?

My first ever podcast! StudioWaves. (art studio, sound waves, sea waves, get it?) My voice is a bit echoey, sorry about that. I'm just working with my built in microphone at the moment. A bigt shout out to Greg and Tonya from Dancing with Elephants for tempting me into this brave new world.

Chelsea Art Fair, 24-27 April, London
Skylark Gallery
My Nereids paintings
About the Nereids in Greek mythology
Dancing with Elephants
Flick, software for artists
Audacity


Theme tune from OPUZZ
Sound effect "Water" by tigersound on The Freesound Project