What to Do When You feel Like Giving Up [51]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
At one time or another, most of us have considered giving up making our art. In this episode, we share our own experiences and discuss why this feeling arises. Perhaps we have ambitions that exceed our current skill level and this leads to disappointment with the results. Sometimes, we are not creating what we really want to create, leading to boredom and burn-out. It is also common for people to become discouraged when they lack a support system and even when they have a spouse or partner who actively discourages their art-making. The conversation leads us to conclude that all these issues can be addressed - we can find support elsewhere, we can improve our skills through education and practice, and we can start to make art that we really love instead of just doing the same old thing.
This week we also tackle the topic of returning after a break and offer our different perspectives on how to get back into your work after the holidays.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So I'd been painting and drawing seriously again about three years at that point and not getting anywhere with it. |
| 0:11.6 | Hello everybody and welcome back to episode 51 of our juice with me Alice Sheridan and |
| 0:19.1 | me Louise Fletcher. |
| 0:20.6 | This is honest, generous, humorous and totally real conversations that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking. |
| 0:29.0 | And this week, after all this lovely New Year kind of positive optimism we've called this one should I give up making my art |
| 0:36.8 | That sounds a bit gloomy doesn't it but hopefully it's not going to be gloomy |
| 0:41.1 | Although I'm looking at the notes and none of us have written any. |
| 0:44.4 | But the other thing is we've got an audience question, we've had lots of discussion |
| 0:50.4 | in my Instagram feed really, but in all sorts of other places I've seen it everywhere |
| 0:56.2 | this week how to get started again after a break so we've got some ideas for you on that |
| 1:00.5 | and the results of a poll I did that was quite revealing I think but first of all how's your |
| 1:07.2 | week been how's the shed oh the shed well I'm going to talk to you about the shed at the end because that's what's inspired me. It's very, very exciting. |
| 1:17.6 | But it's been a really busy weekend in my planner, my very carefully detailed planner I laid out which days I was going to paint and I blocked out the days for painting and I really felt a sense of accomplishment on Monday because I did it on Monday and then on |
| 1:35.4 | Tuesday it just all went out of the window and I didn't even get in there at all and then the |
| 1:41.6 | Wednesday I had one hour and we're now on Thursday and I'm not going to get any in today but I didn't have any in my planet. |
| 1:50.0 | But it is already making me think something about what I've written in that planner is way |
| 1:55.3 | too ambitious. |
| 1:56.6 | So either I'm trying to do too much other stuff or I was too ambitious with the painting time but the good news is that I did I had |
| 2:06.2 | probably 11 or 12 things on the go and I've got this habit which I think a lot of |
| 2:12.0 | us have I love the beginning so I love getting a big |
| 2:15.8 | board or a big canvas and just beginning throwing paint around and then when it gets to a stage |
| 2:20.8 | where it looks quite good but it's not really finished then I just |
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