I'm constantly saying I can't afford that and my husband he gets quite annoyed and he says can you stop telling people we can't afford things you can afford things.

He just thinks that I'm making us out to be paupers.

Hi, welcome to episode 11 of art youth. Behind the scenes conversations about making

art and the creative life with me, Louise Fletcher.

And me Alice Sheridan. So we have all sorts of good stuff for you this week.

We're going to talk about investing in ourselves with time and money.

We have a great question about gallery relations, but first let's dive into what we're

working on this week. So Alice, what's this week held for you?

Well I'm going to come on to something exciting a little bit at the end with what's impressed, but I was a bit nervous on Monday because I had my couple who have commissioned a painting from me come to see and have a look and give their feedback.

And I've been working on two paintings and I it's very interesting always to watch somebody's face when they're

reacting to this because I think you get more from that than you do necessarily in the words that they say. So yeah I was quite nervous because a little bit of me is expecting that they're going to say, do you know what we don't like any of it we want to change our mind. But now I've got some guidance as to how to finish them, but that's also quite a difficult stage because you're being aware of somebody else's wishes for it and how that matches with your own.

So that's my art working on this week.

And was it positive?

Was it a positive experience?

Yes it was. I mean I think it's fascinating and I think they are

enjoying it as well from a point of view of being involved and seeing how things develop and they're very thoughtful. They're both

very thoughtful and quite different personalities from each other and because I've

been working on two it was interesting to see how they responded to both of them and there was one that I thought was more clearly

online with what they'd asked for and actually they quite liked the other one as well which surprised me a little bit and then I also showed them another one the same size that I've been working on totally alongside, nothing to do with their

brief. The colours are incredibly off and I said you just might be interested to see this

that I've been doing at the same time and they had quite a

strong reaction to that as well positive reaction to that right I think just

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