Ottawa-based artist, urban sketcher, and designer Genine Carvalheira shares sketching adventures from drawing penguins in Chile to a 21-day adventure beyond the Arctic Circle in Norway.

A few years ago, when her partner offered Genine the chance to preview retirement, she leapt at the opportunity. How did this transform her art and her sketchbook practice? How does she feel about going back to work again? This is a conversation about belonging - to a country, to a group, even something as simple as a local community of sketchers.

🤳🏼 [Follow] Genine on Instagram

💻 [Watch] Genine’s live workshop with Art Toolkit on Oct 4

🎨 [Join] Genine’s in-person, week-long art-retreat in Italy in 2026

✍🏼 [Read] Nishant’s newsletter of secretly drawn art of the world + share your thoughts about this episode.

📚 [Buy] Nishant’s book - Make (Sneaky) Art: and other ideas to build your sketchbook habit.

🎟️ [Join] the Sneaky Book Tour! Nishant goes on the road to share his sketching experiences, the funny business of writing a book, and why you need a sketchbook habit. Next stop: Oct 13 in New York.

If the modern world runs on the attention economy, are we simply fuel for its fires? If the modern world runs on the attention economy, can we win by reclaiming our attention spans? In this episode, Nishant recounts his experience at the prestigious Aspen Ideas Festival, where he shared his Big Idea to save the world - a cheap sketchbook and a pen.

📚 Make (Sneaky) Art is now out in bookstores and available online. Grab your copy: https://geni.us/makesneakyart.

🎟️ Find Nishant on the SneakyArt Book Tour: https://www.sneakyartist.com/book-tour

✍🏼 [Read] How to Break out of Social Media Prison

✍🏼 [Read] Impressions from Aspen Ideas Festival

✍🏼 [Read] Working with a publisher when you only like working alone

✍🏼 [Read] On pub day, a mild existential crisis appears.

New York-based artist and author Samantha Dion Baker introduces her latest book - Draw your Adventures.

What are good ways to think of the word ‘adventure’? Does it always need to be an exotic, foreign location? Sam and Nishant discuss ways to craft a personal definition of adventure, free of other people (plus social media) opinions.

Then big questions creep in! If all knowledge already exists on YouTube, what really is the job of the how-to book? If artists are self-driven, why do we benefit so much from community? Also, are disembodied hands easier to draw than hands attached to their people?

BONUS: Sam offers advice for first-time authors (like Nishant!) to deal with the anxiety of expectations.

📚 Buy Draw your Adventures by Samantha Dion Baker

🎨 Check out Sam’s exciting new “Write and Draw” workshop in Brooklyn

📚 Buy Make (Sneaky) Art by Nishant

🎟️ Meet Nishant on the SneakyArt Book Tour

🎙️ Listen to Sam & Nishant’s first conversation in Ep 52 of the show