# Art Post Creative ways to combine parenting, art-making, and the writing life. Page: Feed: --- ## [Gouache Sketchbook Tour!](https://artfulpostpartum.substack.com/p/gouache-sketchbook-tour) _2026-08-01 · Sarah Hoenicke Flores_ All the paintings I made during July while trying to learn this new medium [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209325871.mp3) ## [Why you should (mostly) take your own photo references](https://artfulpostpartum.substack.com/p/why-take-your-own-photo-references) _2026-07-08 · Sarah Hoenicke Flores_ On building a visual library from your own world and interests ## [Finding the comfort and confidence to speak](https://artfulpostpartum.substack.com/p/finding-the-comfort-and-confidence) _2026-06-23 · Sarah Hoenicke Flores_ Or: what adds up to "voice" in our work [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/201487362/2357d0fd30e88e25b36b908dd0d049c4.mp3) ## [What, exactly, is a parent's job?](https://artfulpostpartum.substack.com/p/what-exactly-is-a-parents-job) _2026-06-11 · Sarah Hoenicke Flores_ The ideal of the happy child, and how values-oriented parenting works against this being a goal in itself ## [Tips for bringing oil and soft pastels into your everyday art practice](https://artfulpostpartum.substack.com/p/tips-for-bringing-oil-and-soft-pastels) _2026-05-25 · Sarah Hoenicke Flores_ Yes, even outside! [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/165739234/5c0695dce7d2c055b5c5257b3cba72de.mp3) ## [On Letting Something Die](https://artfulpostpartum.substack.com/p/on-letting-something-die) _2026-05-13 · Sarah Hoenicke Flores_ Setting aside a 10-year project and making way for new things to come ## [Unboxing and Swatching A. Gallo Watercolors](https://artfulpostpartum.substack.com/p/unboxing-and-swatching-a-gallo-watercolors) _2026-05-07 · Sarah Hoenicke Flores_ So, anyone who has been here a while knows that I love to paint and that I love to try art supplies. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/196724538/dca1f6125112583ae9402127f89dad03.mp3) ## [Go ahead, get the quality thing! (Or: cool, reusable pens)](https://artfulpostpartum.substack.com/p/go-ahead-get-the-quality-thing-or) _2026-04-21 · Sarah Hoenicke Flores_ and some things you can do with them [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/194956401/80836f6a7fdf8a1625eff7523798639b.mp3) ## [gender dysphoria, reproductive parenting and mixing paint](https://artfulpostpartum.substack.com/p/gender-dysphoria-reproductive-parenting) _2026-04-13 · Sarah Hoenicke Flores_ or, you know: "spring break" [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/193294832/67b0cf4ddf7a8854852907c197aa3a56.mp3) ## [Buy Buy Art Supply](https://artfulpostpartum.substack.com/p/buy-buy-art-supply) _2026-04-08 · Sarah Hoenicke Flores_ The naïve hope that the Next New Thing will be what helps us level up (and what really does) ## [Brisk AI News Briefings (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ZANDdIw4Oi23) _2026-04-08 · **Sponsored**_ Read AI summaries and listen to audio briefings for top stories. ## [slow painting, spring springing](https://artfulpostpartum.substack.com/p/slow-painting-spring-springing) _2026-03-30 · Sarah Hoenicke Flores_ come paint with me while I tell you about my new series [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/192019767/7afcd7f76e82c864b857b4b358bad766.mp3) ## [The relationship between expectations and constraints](https://artfulpostpartum.substack.com/p/the-relationship-between-expectations) _2026-03-16 · Sarah Hoenicke Flores_ Know your limitations so you can adjust what you expect to be able to do [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/190882711/53c9f0fed829578b36db674f4c47ae2b.mp3) ## [Compositions that cross the line](https://artfulpostpartum.substack.com/p/creating-compositions-that-cross) _2026-03-11 · Sarah Hoenicke Flores_ Why is it so pleasurable to make and look at work that traverses the sketchbook gutter? ## [Falling in love with process](https://artfulpostpartum.substack.com/p/falling-in-love-with-process) _2026-03-02 · Sarah Hoenicke Flores_ A video about using a multi-step gesso kit and oil painting on paper [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/189393181/13d1cfb61b3699f5f4ffc8962cf274ee.mp3) ## [How I've been painting (in oils!)](https://artfulpostpartum.substack.com/p/how-ive-been-painting-in-oils) _2026-02-15 · Sarah Hoenicke Flores_ while also keeping up with everything else [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/187777732/c7775c82884a0601e939e39b35cea36a.mp3) ## [Studies, Stickers, Sketchbooks](https://artfulpostpartum.substack.com/p/stickers-master-studies-and-learning) _2026-02-05 · Sarah Hoenicke Flores_ Making an education through copies ## [How can you make art?](https://artfulpostpartum.substack.com/p/how-can-you-make-art) _2026-02-01 · Sarah Hoenicke Flores_ A little bit at a time [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/186454900/28f3ace4c343a12d111b3efbaf148c6e.mp3) ## [Two sketchbooks, four years apart](https://artfulpostpartum.substack.com/p/two-sketchbooks-four-years-apart) _2026-01-01 · Sarah Hoenicke Flores_ Watch now | What has changed and what has stayed the same [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/181830306/b1c3fd5bca4da950f9d5d3f05daf844d.mp3) ## [Supplies in full color](https://artfulpostpartum.substack.com/p/supplies-in-full-color) _2025-12-04 · Sarah Hoenicke Flores_ How I learned to love a much-raved-about art supply that for years had left me cold ## [Make any domain metal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/sUKDEJfaZZP0) _2025-12-04 · **Sponsored**_ Turn any domain into a blacked-out metal landing page with an email waitlist ## [Stop playing it safe](https://artfulpostpartum.substack.com/p/i-either-need-to-stop-playing-it) _2025-11-06 · Sarah Hoenicke Flores_ Five strategies for learning to take risks in creative work (and figuring out what a risk even is)