Do we need to get older to get wiser, or can we learn from sharing mistakes [10]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
There is great merit in sticking with something long enough that you actually benefit from your own mistakes. But we hope to make things a bit easier by sharing some of the mistakes we've made - from email marketing, understanding how to talk about yourself and your work and simply not knowing how to sell paintings because they are so mysteriously different.
We have a great listener question: “When do you decide when a painting is finished? So often, I like what I see, but want to push forward for something even more dynamic. I am nervous that I will mess it up (and I have!). But...always afraid I am not reaching my full potential in a particular painting if I give up too early. Help!” We have some time based suggestions - and also the two types of fear you may be having around finishing a work.
Finally, we are inspired by different reactions to art in completely different contexts and scale. And Riley has a reaction to the postman ;-)
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| 0:00.0 | I did hear something the other day that said when you do a podcast you have to do lots of preparation you can't just turn up and chat |
| 0:08.7 | I thought oops |
| 0:11.6 | That's just what we do that's exactly where we've been going wrong. Hello everyone and welcome to episode 10 of art juice with me Alice Sheridan and |
| 0:29.2 | me Louise Fletcher so this is real behind the scenes conversations about making art and the |
| 0:35.1 | creative life and it was lovely at the weekend to meet some of you who |
| 0:39.7 | listen. I know you always think it's quite nice that it's real people at the other end of it. |
| 0:45.4 | It's also really lovely to know that it's real people that means you listening to it. |
| 0:50.8 | One of the things I think that's interesting and when I started listening to |
| 0:54.2 | podcasts is like I never got what show notes are or how to find them. So this is just a |
| 1:02.1 | very brief bit at the beginning to say there are brief |
| 1:06.2 | show notes in the podcast app so that gives a total summary if you're listening in |
| 1:10.6 | iTunes that will give a little summary. |
| 1:13.0 | But both Louise and I on our own website, |
| 1:16.6 | so that's Louise Fletcher art, isn't it? |
| 1:19.7 | Yeah, yep. |
| 1:20.5 | Yep. And Alice Sheridan.com, we both have a page that's all about the |
| 1:25.0 | podcast and we have a post a bit like a blog post about each podcast episode. |
| 1:30.7 | So if there's ever anything that you want to go back and check, we put some links in there. |
| 1:35.0 | Sometimes there's extra images and like with all blog posts you can put comments at the bottom. |
| 1:40.0 | So if you want to get involved or ask a question about anything that we talk |
| 1:45.1 | about that's a good place to do it. |
| 1:49.7 | Right so what have you been working on this week Louise? |
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