And what is it that you really want to be doing?

And are you forcing yourself to do something else?

Maybe you're forcing yourself to do sketchbooks because you listen to this podcast.

And one weekend you think, ugh, I just don't want to be doing this.

Hi, and welcome to episode 238 of Art Juice. This is honest, generous and humorous conversations

to feed your creative soul and get your thinking with me, Louise Fletcher. And me, Alice Sheridan.

And today we are going to talk a little bit about sketchbooks, which is a topic we've talked about

before, but it's not like it is a topic we've talked about before,

but it's not like it's a topic that is just covered in one podcast because there's all different

ways to think about it. And I'm quite involved in books at the moment, various books. So I suggested

it as a topic and we'll just see where it goes. Before we get into that though, Alice,

what have you been up to? Have you had any chance to do anything art related at all in the last

week? A little bit I have. Coming back, I have been starting to think about what the year holds for me art-wise,

because I've got two things coming up that I actually need work for.

So, you know, got to get myself organized and think what this year is going to be about.

But it's been a much gentler start to the year.

And, of course, last week I was away, I hosted a retreat for four people.

Oh, how did that go? And yeah, it was the first time I'd done it on my own. And it was amazing.

It was beyond my expectations. Let's just put it that way. And it was really interesting to see.

Like there were quite a lot of logistical organisation things that went wrong literally on the

morning of things like the place we were going to, the previous

people hadn't left. So I got a frantic phone call or message from the owners kind of saying,

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