What do you do when you feel compelled to keep going even though you know you're about to make a horrible mess of what you're doing?

Hello everybody and welcome to Art Juice. This is the

podcast with honest, generous and humorous conversations that will feed your

creative soul and get you thinking with me Alice Sheridan and

me Louise Fletcher and this is episode 81 we haven't decided yet what we're

going to call it but we've just been discussing it to and fro a little bit on

Facebook messenger because that's the kind of sophisticated organization that we

have in place and it's funny because Louise messaged me and said, have we spoken about getting out of a creative rut or being in the doldrums?

And I said, yeah, I think we've done it about a million times.

And she said, well, I'm not sure that specifically. So that's what it is going to be about, but in talking about it a little bit before we started recording, we've really realized that it's not so much the issue of getting out of a

creative rut that's more like we're turning it into a bigger thing than it is it's

more just what it feels like when you have a bad week in the studio.

So it happens, that's what we're going to be talking about.

Or even a bad few weeks.

Yeah, that's a bit harder, isn't it?

So, before we get stuck into that, what have you been working on this week,

or do we need to just save that until we get into the main question?

What else in your week then?

Well, what else?

So I'll save my painting and just talk about very briefly.

And so I'm teaching a course and I have my membership and I've

mentioned this it's two things running at once so it's a lot and we got superfast

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