The Mystery of Art: Should We Share Our Creative Techniques? [45]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This week, we're diving into a topic we've both wondered about ... how much should we share? If we let people in to all aspects of our creative process, does our art lose its mystery? Do collectors really want to see the good, the bad and the ugly of our artistic process? And what about sharing with other artists? Should we keep some things as trade secrets? If we share everything, are we worried about people copying us? During our conversation, we share some of the benefits we've both experienced from sharing our work, our processes and our creative lives. We also discuss the potential pitfalls of being open and honest.
Later, we answer a listener question from Wendy about substrates ... why do we choose to work on boards or canvas or paper? What factors do we weigh and how does that decision impact our work? All this, plus the week's inspiration, which includes a kick-ass group of artists and the story of how one amazing woman turned hardship into massive success.
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Thought for the Day: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07vp1z4
Wharfedale Grange wedding venue: https://www.wharfedalegrange.co.uk/
Louise's free acrylics video: https://www.louisefletcherart.com/acrylics/
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| 0:00.0 | just being open and honest about where you are in it has just made it so much easier for me at every stage to be able to share |
| 0:09.0 | the process and the progress where I am at the moment. |
| 0:13.0 | Hi, welcome to episode 45 of art juice. |
| 0:22.0 | This is generous, honest and humorous conversations to feed your creative |
| 0:26.0 | soul and get you thinking with me, Louise Fletcher. |
| 0:29.6 | And me Alice Sheridan. |
| 0:32.0 | And today we're talking about the mystery of art. |
| 0:35.3 | Should you share your creative techniques or should you keep them to yourself? |
| 0:39.6 | We also have an audience question actually about one of our creative techniques so we can talk |
| 0:45.6 | about that and we'll do our usual what's inspired but first of all let's talk about |
| 0:51.8 | what's been happening this talk about what's been happening this week. So what's been happening |
| 0:55.0 | Alice this week? Well I have had a good week in the studio actually and things have been going around in circles for a bit but at the end of |
| 1:05.0 | last week I just had that moment you know where you get a sudden |
| 1:10.1 | realization of completion or moment of completion and it tends to come somewhat frustratingly after you've spent a long time |
| 1:19.5 | Fiddling my case with something and do you know what I'm not sure this is making an |
| 1:25.6 | enormous difference now and sometimes those fiddle parts at the end they just pull things |
| 1:31.7 | into shape a little bit but they're not huge impactful |
| 1:35.4 | changes but I just noticed that when I get to that point and I'm not getting big |
| 1:40.3 | urges like oh this needs to change this needs to change if I get to the point |
| 1:45.0 | what I don't really know what to do next and I'm feeling quite satisfied with |
| 1:49.9 | it that's when I know that I'm done. So rather humorously I did a post on |
| 1:55.9 | Instagram and I said how do you think I should have these framed really simple frame |
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