And the other thing you said which I've often found helpful is taking sections of what I've liked in a painting and partly that's helpful to me because I can be quite bitty in my larger paintings. If I take a small section of what I like, then I can see, no, I need that small

section to be the whole thing. I don't need all this little bitty bits and pieces. Hello and welcome back everybody to

Hello and welcome back everybody to another episode of Art Juice.

This is 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 67 and our main subject is going to be how to fall in love with your work.

And it was prompted by a listener question which I will read out later,

but first of all what have you been working on this week?

I'll be back in the studio. Yes, yes, and I'm out of

sketchbooks now. So I did start working on concertina sketchbooks, which I'll talk about

when I get to what's inspired. But so in a concertina sketchbooks which I'll talk about when I get to what's inspired.

But so in a concertina sketchbook it's a big piece of paper folded up into and you just

unfold it like an accordion.

And so I suddenly thought I'm really enjoying this I'm enjoying this long former I need to go back to the long former on paper that I was working on

It's such a nice month ago. Yeah, I love it.

So I've got these big sheets of watercolor paper that I've had for ages.

So I've just been cutting them in half,

taping them around the edges, and then, well actually I've worked on them as one big sheet

with tape across the middle and then cut them in half and then carried on working on them

a small.

So that you've already kind of disrupted the paper a little bit before

you end up with it in a book, yes.

Yeah.

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