Conversations on Craft with Ashly Hutchins

Talking Craft while Being Tattooed This is a K D O I rebroadcast and that's of my old show. KDOI Podcasting I love putting these on for you because we had some great conversations back in my old show, and it would be a shame if they just lived on my external hard drive and we didn't get a chance to share them with you in this episode, talking with my good friend and tattoo artists, Ashley Hutchins, and we're talking about craft, but now here's the thing in this interview. I'm actually getting a tattoo by her while I'm interviewing her. I've never done that before. I haven't done that since. And it was a interesting time to say the least. So I hope you enjoy this and I hope you get something out of it. If you do email me [email protected] and I'd love to hear from you.   Reaching Out To reach out to me, email [email protected] I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: [email protected] YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod   [podcast_subscribe id="207"] Transcripts of the Show Intro KDOI Rebroadcast Conversations on Craft with Ashly Hutchins Timothy: Create art podcast. K D O I rebroadcast talking craft with Ashley Hudgins. Hi there, friends. This is Timothy Kimo, Brian, your head instigator for create art podcast where I use my 20 plus years of experience in arts and education to help you tame your inner critic and create more than you consume in this episode. This is a K D O I rebroadcast and that's of my old show. KDOI Podcasting I love putting these on for you because we had some great conversations back in my old show, and it would be a shame if they just lived on my external hard drive and we didn't get a chance to share them with you in this episode, talking with my good friend and tattoo artists, Ashley Hutchins, and we're talking about craft, but now here's the thing in this interview. I'm actually getting a tattoo by her while I'm interviewing her. I've never done that before. I haven't done that since. And it was a interesting time to say the least. So I hope you enjoy this and I hope you get something out of it. If you do email me [email protected] and I'd love to hear from you. So without further ado here is the KDOI rebroadcast. Craft with Ashley Hutchins. Start of KDOI Intro I am your head instigator, Timothy Kimo. Brian. This episode will focus on craft now out of all the subjects this season, this is probably the one that is the most tangible we can put our hands or witness craft in action. And maybe that's why it's the easiest to talk about. Perhaps it's going to turn out to be the hardest our friends over at Merriam-Webster defined craft as skill in planning or executing dexterity and occupation or trade requiring manual dexterity, or artistic skill skill in deceiving to gain and end members of a trade. To make or produce with a care skill or ingenuity. Now our two quotes come from gene Fowler writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. And Stephen King amateurs, sit and wait for inspiration. The rest of us, just get up and go to work. Now, gene Fowler was a writer with the Detroit post and a syndicated manager of king features. His later work included over a dozen screenplays, mostly written in the thirties, 1930s folks, not the 2030s and a number of books, including biographies and memoirs. Stephen King. Well, Hey, there we go guys, author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense science fiction, and fantasy, his books. And this is interesting, has sold more than 350 million copies. Many of which have been made into feature films, mini series, television series, and comic books. And from what I understand, he hates most of them. Stephen King's has published at least 58 novels, including seven under the pen name, Richard Bachman and six non-fiction books. He's also written about 200 short stories and most of which have been published in book collections. So obviously the question is why aren't we discussing craft for me? This is the most concrete topic yet. It's also a bit nebulous. Some people can fake craft with shortcuts or YouTube videos. Craft takes study craft takes doing craft takes failure and picking yourself up and pushing forward. Craft takes vision and research about where you want to go and what you want to incorporate into your work. The two quotes, I chose really speak to me about the hard work that comes with being artistic. This stuff just doesn't drop into our lap. We aren't waiting for some invisible friend in the sky to give it to us, or to give us a clue about how to complete something or overcome a barrier craft is the action of getting up when you are sick and blowing chunks, getting into your space and making something happen. When it's the last thing in the world that you want to do, craft separates the wheat from the. It's not meant to handcuff us. It is, it is there to help us to push through whatever blockages we may have that prevent us from creating our net from being our creative, natural selves. So, Hey, let's get this conversation going. Start of Interview All right. So we are recording live here in Sesame street. We have Ms. Ashley. She has been with us third time term. First time to get the perfect score on these seven questions. I'm just saying, well, you're the first one. Ashly: You're the first one Timothy: to get well so actually put this up on Facebook and I thought it was pretty cool. It is the sword. Oops. Ashly: Switch with switchblades. Timothy: it looks nice. Like it's a sword in somebody's Ashly: hands. That's how you say it's a mouse where it would be lacrosse or Timothy: I'm just saying we've got moon and of course we have skull on. It has been with us as, as per request and some lady face and a lady face. This is my, one of my first lady with you. We've got the the tiger could be considered a lady. It's on my heart. It represents, you know, my, my tiger at home. And then the minions they think they do represent the girls. So there could be women. Ashly: I mean, honestly, any of these supposed to be, Timothy: I have a lot of women on me. Ashly: Okay, Polly. Now let's Timothy: take a look at this. Okay. We're not going to Facebook poll on this guy's piece. You guys gonna do a choose what I did on my arms. Let's rock it out, make it happen, make some magic, right? Yeah, it was really good when I got into her. Some young lady, I think she might've been 19, but she wanted to get a face of an angel or something like that. And one of your guys out there saying, okay, we've got to do this really big, really bad. So she was trying to get as small as she could, you know, the whole thing. And I'm just like, oh, I get it. You want to get something small? So that way you can hide it. Ashly: Things like portraits. Yeah. Think that faces definitely need to be a certain size. And that is also why, which has crafted us because that's something that people it's for the longevity of your tattoo. And not because we just are trying to talk him into doing something larger. Exactly. So you're going to be hidden. Timothy: Fantastic. Ashly: Come on. We're here to the table. Timothy: I mean, towards me towards, yeah, those are the second table. Ashly: Oh yeah. Timothy: And I'm getting a massage on Friday night, so, you know, I'm just getting all the therapy on this. Awesome. Ashly: All right. So Timothy: right. Ashly: Yeah. When I was getting the Jim's put on my tooth and she was like, put it like Monday. I'm sorry. And I was like, I do this to people every day. Timothy: I like the idea that it's a subordinate switchblade, even though it is a Switzerland, Ashly: it can be whatever you want. It's like an impression is painting. It's it's whatever. There Timothy: we go. Nearly. No one says anything different. We just poke your head balls out. Like we normally do. We're actually talking Ashly: about Timothy: sweet and I promise not to ask so many basic questions. The answer to not everyone knows Ashley. Like I know actually, oh, I didn't pay the power bill. Yeah, that was the shortest tattoo I've ever. Ashly: No worries. That's another reason why we should talk about crap. I had to learn some things that shift in your program to forget is that, Timothy: oh no, no, we can, yeah, we can mark this as an explicit a okay. Well, I, you know, I did the one with my my nephew when I was no, we didn't do it in Chicago. We did it over a squad cast, but you know, he was dropping the F bomb, never got the vert, so we're good. We just mark it as explicit and we can park. Ashly: I was listening to . I said to my daughter, you talking about she's like, dad, you used to have tattooed, starts describing it, dealing with the sword, a crystal ball. And I was like, that sounds sweet. And he's like, no, I got saved. And I was like, oh, playing. Would you just state really can hear and understand? And I was like, Timothy: these guys are saved by somebody else. Ashly: That's like, fuck, it's sweet. Timothy: It's like, yeah. Well ask the song, my archive it's called up. Fuck you....