don't try and go large all of a sudden because you won't be able to but I was so ambitious that I thought all these are 12 inch so I'll double it and I'll do 24 inch which is why I never got my math DCSE because that is not double, honest, generous and humorous conversations that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me Alice Sheridan. And me, Louise Fletcher.

And on episode 150 this week we are going to be talking about going big in response to a

listener question we got in and we weren't sure if we'd really talked about this before

so we're going to be looking at that and sharing our experiences with it as a painter but first of all what has your week been like it's been quite satisfying week really because I finished my 10

paintings that my target was for January and they're all signed they're all

sealed they're not vanished yet they're all sealed, they're not vanished yet, they've all got the edges painted and they're all packed away.

So my studio is actually tidy because I've really got as many big paintings as I need and what I really need now is some small ones and it's a good week to talk about going big because I have to go small but But I'm not finding that very easy.

And I'm not really finding my way with the small ones that I've got on the go.

I've got a lot of 12 inch ones and a lot of 10 inch ones on the go. I've got a lot of 12 inch ones and a lot of 10 inch ones on the go and they're all just in the

phase of who knows what's going on here. So that'll be what's next but I've got plenty of time so I'm not worried about it and I liked

having the studio tied it up and organized and yesterday I have my intern here

Scarlett so I had her pull out I've got three or four shells for paper in my studio and I got to pull out all the paper from those shells and you wouldn't believe how much paper you can fit into a thin shelf.

Yeah. And so much junk.

And so I did one of those, okay, these things can go in sketchbooks because they're worth something.

These things I might use I might frame and most of it needs to go on the bonfire. So that was a good feeling as I moved them into the bonfire pile.

I don't do that very often but sometimes things are just

past the point of using the paper again and there's no point.

There's a funny thing isn't it? I think sometimes we do hold on to things and they're

important at the point and then they just get to the point where we just don't need to

hang on to them anymore. Yeah so if they you, and actually it's very easy at that point to beat yourself off about it and

go, oh why am I so messy?

I could have thrown all these way before and then I wouldn't have to do this.

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