I wonder if there's anyone who really just works eight hours a day on paint.

It's not like a regular job, it needs creativity comes and goes, It doesn't work that way.

Hello and welcome to episode 131 of Art Juice, honest, generous and humorous

conversations that will feed your creative soul and hopefully get you

thinking with me Alice Sheridan and me Louise Fletcher and today

sorry to say not sorry because we're a little bit looking forward to it is going to be the last

podcast don't panic for a while we're going to take a little break over the

summer and we will be back again but we're taking a little break over the summer and we will be back again but we're taking a little break over the summer so

make sure that wherever you're listening to this you subscribe or follow because then you'll you'll get a

notification when we kick back off again. But we're going to enjoy today and what we're going to be talking about is about this idea of using rhythms in our work and why you shouldn't feel guilty basically about taking a pause.

So before we get to that, what have you been doing this week? Well, I'm still teaching my course, so that takes up a lot of time and I'm re-recording videos

so that everything's fresh.

And of course, when I do that, I think, think oh I can think of a better thing to do this

year I do something new so that takes up quite a bit of time but I really enjoy that I like

finding new ways to communicate something and I like improving it year on year. So been doing that, but also, and there's a lot of demoing involved in that for me this year, which I didn't do before so I'm recording myself doing the assignments that I'm giving

other people but I've been doing it in a way so I'm bringing it into the series of work that I'm creating rather than just going off and doing something

completely new. So following the assignment but keeping in mind the colours and ideas that I'm working within the series. So it's been, I'm loving the series that I'm working on and the way I tend to work is I had a few panels on the go maybe eight or nine now I started

working on paper I've started a sketchbook then I'll go back to some panels I've

primed some really big ones to work on and it kind of evolves organically so I never

know how many they're going to be but when we get to inspiration I'll talk about how it all might play into something I wasn't expecting but yeah that's what I've been up to painting painting painting teaching

teaching. Sounds good sounds good. It's funny isn't it it, how everything does, I think once you're, once you have the space and this ties in with what we're going to talk about today, things do kind of snowball and they do take on, I mean is what happens it takes on a mind of its own and it's just

lovely when you're in that space and you can fully enjoy it because it's not always that way

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