Hi and welcome to episode 130 of art juice.

This is honest, generous and humorous conversations to feed your creative soul and get you thinking.

With me Louise Fletcher.

And me Alice Sheridan.

I nearly said with me Alice Sheridan.

It was, I had to pause slightly. Yeah, I was very confused. I bet some people when they

see us don't know which is which when we do the little videos sometimes. I was thinking

exactly that this week. I was thinking you know you just hear the

voices and I bet that there are people who've got us somehow muddled up.

I remember because my favorite podcast is reply all and it's two guys and when I saw them they couldn't have been

more different than the voices and it just threw me off for weeks.

Yeah, it was like oh this is not right so it's best not to see us everybody so our

topic this week is about we're going to talk all about art prints, when to make them, whether you should make them, how to make them, what to consider.

But first, let's just catch up with where we are because I haven't talked to you since last week. So what have you been up to?

I have been concentrating more on getting this group of work towards the finish line and it's a very it's a

funny thing isn't it we spoke last week about about process I noticed that there are

very different rhythms and paces at the beginning and the middle and the end of the work.

And the beginning is fun, it's exciting, you know, I'm not scared of a blank canvas anymore. You're full of enthusiasm and the middle stages can go through quite a difficult process when you're not quite sure still what the outcome is going to be and if you're moving closer towards it or or not.

And it's both, I think it's an essential part of the process for me anyway but it's also a little bit difficult and then you I don't know you just suddenly hit that little

I did something might click on one painting and you think, oh, there's something there I'm kind of happy with that.

And everything sort of shifts a gear into right, well now what does it mean? how do I get these finished without putting that extra pressure on yourself.

So I'm kind of in that stage of them. I feel like I've been in middle stages where not a lot has changed because one of the things that I wanted to explore was how do you go with those early marks and keep those early marks and not necessarily make such huge drastic changes that feel like you've done 180 degree turn, but also make a painting feel more finished.

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