What Moves You Forward? Internal vs. External Motivation [91]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This week, we're discussing the ways in which we motivate ourselves and move our work forward. Sometimes that comes from external input such as workshops, groups and one-on-one coaching. Sometimes we find the inspiration within ourselves. In this episode, we share our experiences of workshops, discuss how we choose the right teachers, and make suggestions on how you might evaluate a course before signing up. Questions to ask include whether you prefer learning in a group, how much instruction you want (vs exploring on your own), and whether you enjoy listening to the person leading the workshop. Alice makes the point that when we are drawn towards a specific workshop, it can often be a sign that we should explore that topic on our own. Often it's worth asking whether you can teach yourself what you need to know, either from online videos, books, or just through practicing in your studio. We also discuss finding the motivation internally - how can you ensure that you feel good about your work so that you want to go into your studio? How can you find the motivation to show up regularly? And how can you create the right emotional state for yourself so that you can move your art forward?
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Trust by Jonathan Hall https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mb2k
Ghosts - BBC -https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m00049t9/ghosts
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| 0:16.6 | How are you? I'm good. I'm so relaxed. I know. I'm going at like a slower pace now after after finishing the course. I'm realizing I'm just I'm working yeah going at a nicer slower place I know |
| 0:24.6 | so this is is episode 91 of art juice. This is honest, generous and humorous |
| 0:29.9 | conversations that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me |
| 0:33.4 | Alice Sheridan and me Louise Fletcher and we are making it up as we go but this week |
| 0:39.9 | this is this is the bonus it's all. You get it as it's happening. Hot news. |
| 0:46.7 | No politics this week. No, no, no. Tell me how's your week been? What have you been working on? |
| 0:54.3 | It's been a really good week actually. It's been a much slower pace than I've been |
| 1:01.4 | working for the last six months. So I've been doing things, I've been |
| 1:07.2 | creating content for my membership and I've been painting and that's a manageable amount of work it turns out I even had time to write a blog post this |
| 1:18.0 | week which I haven't written a blog post for so long and in bit and also lots of painting so I'm just really what does that |
| 1:29.6 | mean for you when you say lots of painting how does that look like in your week so this |
| 1:35.0 | what it's meant this week if I start on Saturday it meant four or five hours on |
| 1:39.5 | Saturday and Sunday and then a couple of hours on Tuesday, three hours on Wednesday and no five hours |
| 1:50.0 | Wednesday two hours Monday and Tuesday so a lot. To me that's a lot. And it feels really good. And some of that time was washing out paint lids and making all my paints nice to use again and putting |
| 2:08.4 | gloss medium and water into them to make them fluid again so it wasn't all painting but it was all studio time. |
| 2:14.4 | But when you have the time available doing things like that feel like a pleasure rather than |
| 2:20.4 | a chore don't they and you know that it's going to help you further down the line. |
| 2:25.2 | Yeah, that's the kind of thing that gets pushed and pushed and pushed and cramped when you're, you know, |
| 2:30.3 | when you are limited for time, that's the sort of thing that doesn't happen because it feels like you're wasting time or it's not contributing |
| 2:37.3 | but and then everything ends up feeling like cluttered it's like I'm not very good at putting things away, but that's why I like to have time to have a really good tidy up at home because you just feel like oh reset. |
| 2:48.0 | Yeah, yeah. So, so really good and the painting has been productive as well. |
| 2:55.0 | So that's always nice. |
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