What to Do When a Painting Goes Wrong [133]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
We've all experienced it - we're working on a painting we love and then ... oops, we make a few wrong moves and the whole thing feels ruined. Or, as recently happened to Louise, we'e working in a painting late at night, feeling really good about it, and then come back in the next morning to find nothing is as we thought. But is this really a problem? In this episode, we discuss that sinking feeling and offer a different viewpoint. During our conversation, we dig into the stages of a painting, discuss whether we have ever actually ruined anything, rail against the use of gesso to 'just cover it up,' and agree on the importance of intention as a guiding principle. We also share our thoughts on a new art book and digress into a slightly nerdy discussion about Mailchimp.
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Remembering in Paint by David Mankin https://www.david-mankin.com/book
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| 0:00.0 | There's nothing I can do with it now. It doesn't have anything in it for me to follow. |
| 0:05.2 | I need to just do something else and keep going. Hi and welcome to episode 133 of our juices is honest, generous and humorous conversations to feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me Louise Fletcher and me Alice Sheridan. |
| 0:29.0 | And this week as usual we rocked up five minutes before and said, |
| 0:34.0 | okay, what we're going to talk about? |
| 0:36.0 | But we have a really good topic for you. |
| 0:38.2 | I think something we haven't covered before. |
| 0:40.4 | We don't exactly know what we're going to be calling it, but basically we're going to talk about what to do when a painting goes wrong |
| 0:47.3 | But first of all and I'm sure that's not happened a lot of you probably don't know that feeling |
| 0:54.5 | When a painting goes wrong wrong I know I certainly don't but apparently Alice does so she's going to share with us and we're |
| 0:59.2 | going to talk about that instead of the other option which was the practicalities of costs of shipping and availability of materials which we just pulled a face out and groaned and said, |
| 1:10.0 | but we might come back to this at some point because that's real life too. |
| 1:13.7 | But yeah, basically it's all horrible stuff today, paintings going wrong, shipping costs, |
| 1:19.2 | not anyway, we'll make it fun. |
| 1:22.8 | So before we get into all the, before we get into the paintings going wrong, what have you been up to this week? |
| 1:29.8 | Okay, so, apart from dealing with paintings going wrong, I have been doing things to get ready for my open studios. |
| 1:40.0 | So that is, it's on our art trail, it's called artist at home in our area and it's happening 17th to the 19th of September which slightly caught me unawares. So I've been in quite panic mode with everything that I need to do to get ready so |
| 1:57.0 | And just kind of juggling I want to get this work photographed I haven't had work |
| 2:01.8 | photograph for a while and this I want to get |
| 2:05.8 | photographed. Right so I have been doing all the things that need to get ready for |
| 2:11.8 | open studios so ours is called |
| 2:13.6 | artists at home there's nothing yet on my website about it but it's the |
| 2:19.0 | 17th to the 19th of September and it's kind of slightly caught me unaware as usually it happens in June and in my head it was the end of September and actually the 17th of September is not the end it's the middle it's quite soon so I'm a slight, I'm not in a panic about it because the work is finished, but, or mainly finished, but it's all those last minute things that I've been getting photography booked in and working out |
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