Hi everybody and welcome to episode 143 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

And this week our topic is we're getting into November now, and so Christmas is on the horizon, and we thought we'd talk about things that we might be able to ask for for Christmas, helping you prepare your Christmas list or maybe things that you want, maybe want to buy another artist in your life for Christmas.

But before we get on to that, tell us about your week, Alice.

It's been a good week, actually. It's been quite fun. I have

been working more on the big ones. They are a delightful challenge in themselves, but it's funny.

One has been a challenge and then one that's large and when I say big ones I think it's about

47 inches.

One just sort of arrived easily and I've got the two of them side by side and I'm looking at them

and the one that arrived easily feels a little bit simple and straightforward, like it feels like it hasn't gone on the same journey and I'm still struggling with this question of is it enough and yet I'm looking at it and thinking

But I love it. It's perfect. I don't want to touch it. So I've got to live with that and then next to it. I've got this one that I've struggled over and I you know it's gone through round the houses and there's so much in it

But it still doesn't quite feel right and I want to take some of that immediacy of the other one back into that one which I hope is just going to finish it off perfectly.

Fingers crossed haven't quite got to that stage yet.

But it's been really good fun.

I've just been enjoying it.

And every time I get to that stage where you feel stuck,

like, oh, but I like this and I might spoil it,

I just keep telling myself look you know you always

Any regrets that I have it's things it's not I never regret things I've done, I only ever regret things that I didn't done. So what have you got to lose? Just do the

thing anyway. And then I'll check a bit more on kind of haphazardly. And then like I said last time, what felt brave before kind of feels normal now. So it's quite exciting. I'm enjoying it. And then I went from that into finishing these some of these tiny little ones that you can

see behind me and so the scale switching from 47 inches down to six inches was quite challenging. Yeah, yeah. And I did that.

smaller ones harder. They in a way they really are are I think you spend a disproportionate amount of time on smaller ones or I do but I think it's because you look at them so closely

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