How to avoid the over-thinking trap [74]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Has over-thinking in your studio ever frozen you in your tracks? But you also want to bring more consideration to you art than pure intuition? This one is for you!
During our conversation with Brian last week, Alice asked “Is it enough to just focus on a buttery brush stroke?” and this led to a discussion of the role of the intellect in painting. Brian suggested that thought must only happen outside the studio, with instinct and intuition being the guide while he is working. So today we thought we’d dive more into this topic.
The balance of feeling and thinking in painting - how much do we need a concept? How important is intellectual thinking? Does working intuitively just mean throwing paint around willy-nilly? At what point is it most effective to think - before, during or after a painting? And is it the same for each of us?
We also play "ask the Brian oracle" with a listener question...
And Louise's final inspiration (Brian’s statement ‘humidity made me a painter’) might leave you with a question: "What is the one thing we continually come back to in our work?"
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| 0:00.0 | It's that thing of paying attention amidst the whole broad expanse of spaciousness that we've got at our disposal. Hello everybody and welcome back. This is episode 74 of Art Juice, honest, Generous and Humorous Conversations that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me Alice Sheridan |
| 0:28.5 | Me Louise Fletcher and today we are going to be talking about basically it's an idea that came up after last week's interview that we did with Brian Ruttenberg which you, what a response it has been. It has been lovely seeing your messages. |
| 0:48.0 | I know lots of you have been followers of his for a long time, but we have been getting emails and comments just to say how much you really enjoyed that conversation and we did too and we've passed some of those onto him and he is equally thrilled so he says thank you very much for the book sales but but more than that you know it's just really nice to be able to pass on some of that and feel that you guys are inspired. |
| 1:15.0 | So if you haven't listened to that, hop back and listen to episode 73 that was last week. |
| 1:21.2 | And if you enjoy listening to us here at Art Juice, can we ask a |
| 1:25.3 | favour? Somebody has alerted us that there are some podcast awards around and |
| 1:31.2 | we would love to have your vote. |
| 1:33.0 | So this will just take two seconds. |
| 1:35.0 | If you could go to British Podcast Awards.com |
| 1:39.0 | slash vote. |
| 1:41.0 | And when you get to that page, |
| 1:42.0 | you just type in Art Juice to search for us and vote for us and it's as simple as that that would be fantastic thank you |
| 1:48.8 | So we've got a few little hangovers from that week that we are going to just introduce into the show just as a |
| 1:56.3 | surprise for you today but our main conversation is going to be around the area of how we balance thinking and feeling, which I know is something |
| 2:07.5 | that I struggle with. So I'm looking forward to seeing where that conversation goes. |
| 2:13.0 | Yeah, me too. |
| 2:14.0 | First of all, what have you been working on this week, Louise? |
| 2:18.0 | Well, I have been really knee-deep in preparations to launch my free course which I do once a year. |
| 2:26.8 | So warning, plug time everybody. |
| 2:29.8 | Come and sign up in two weeks time so there's actually one week's time when this goes out so |
| 2:35.1 | June the 15 for one week I do I open up my doors I spend a whole week like full on |
| 2:41.8 | every minute of every day teaching this free workshop. |
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