Creating Your Magic Circle [16]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Did you know that who you surround yourself with makes a huge difference to your life?
Does your family have a creative background? Is your creative streak viewed with suspicion or disbelief. It can be hard to make art if this is what surrounds us so we review our personal histories and how we've made changes to the things which influence our beliefs.
The quote “You’re the average of the five people spend the most time with,” is most often attributed to motivational speaker Jim Rohn, but science backs him up.
What this means is that if your friends are obese, you are much more likely to also be obese. If your friends drink too much, chances are you will too. But how does this impact our art-making? We discuss the importance of having supportive people in our lives and we share some of the ways we have done this for ourselves. We also share our thoughts on minimizing the psychological impact of negative comments as these can derail us if we are not careful. In the end, it comes down to choosing who or what will influence our mindset and making conscious moves to ensure we stay in a good place.
We also talk studio clear-outs and what we have learned about launching a course online (even though it's not our course!)
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| 0:00.0 | Some people we have 50 paintings a month from. |
| 0:03.0 | How? I don't know. How do you make 50 paintings a month? Hello and welcome back to Art Juice. This is episode 16 of the |
| 0:19.6 | podcast that brings you behind the scenes conversations about making art and the creative life with me Alice Sheridan and me Louise Fletcher and we are going to be diving into your magic circle and who you can surround yourself with that supports you when you're creating |
| 0:36.3 | your art and that may not necessarily be the people who are closest to you. |
| 0:40.8 | But before that, let's talk a little bit about what you've been working on this week. |
| 0:45.0 | So I've been working on new paintings. I don't know if I mentioned on here last week that I've had some new boards made I think I did. Yeah you were fed up with priming them. Oh just so and yeah I got finally done and I have now of course the problem I have that we always have in Britain is space. |
| 1:04.4 | So now I've got all these panels and I've got to find somewhere to store them. |
| 1:09.1 | So I'm lucky that in my studio I've got a little bathroom because it used to be a little flat over the |
| 1:14.0 | garage and so there's room in there to lay them all flat on the floor so that's what they all are. |
| 1:18.7 | But I have started painting and interesting. |
| 1:23.0 | One of the things I've learned about myself |
| 1:25.0 | over the last year or so is that color is totally intuitive for me |
| 1:30.0 | and depends on the season. |
| 1:32.0 | Because I keep talking, why am my colours changing? |
| 1:35.0 | Oh, it's spring. |
| 1:37.0 | So in autumn I was all yellow orca and burnt siena and now I'm all like quinacredo, magenta and all sorts of like really violent |
| 1:49.5 | colours are coming out so I'm going to have to tone it down in later layers, I think, but I'm having such fun with it. |
| 1:56.0 | And because the panels are all larger than I'm used to, and they're not giant by many people's standards, for me they're large so they're either a meter |
| 2:04.9 | square or they're two feet by three feet and that's big for me and so just covering up that much space with lots and lots paint is great fun. |
| 2:15.0 | So especially at the beginning bit where it doesn't really matter. |
| 2:19.0 | And I think also especially with colours that feel really fresh and exciting. I mean I agree with you I find that my colors change a lot |
| 2:28.6 | seasonly and that's not because I'm trying to represent seasons. I just find that my mood or the pace I work at is different and it's lovely to be able to have that freedom and control. I remember thinking that one idea that I had at one |
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