I must tell you though we this particular man is a lovely man called Phil and he's been our model for years and he did one pause and I had the most unfortunate view where I had like full on the whole thing. Hi, welcome to episode five of Art Juice, behind-the-scenes conversations about making art and the creative life with me, Louise Fletcher.

And with me Alice Sheridan.

Today we're going to be talking about a couple of main questions how to deal with older work when your styles moved on and also a re-listing a question how to ask for feedback.

We're also going to introduce a new feature, but I'll save that for a surprise at the end.

So to begin with, as usual, what are we working on this week?

Alice, what are you working on this week?

Well, it was a bit of a slow start to the week,

but finally I geared up and I got started on three big new paintings.

And what was really interesting about it was because it was those early stages where you can just let rip because you haven't got any fear of getting things wrong. I love that stage. It is nerve-wracking looking at that big blank canvas, but I really enjoy that stage. But what I did this time differently, very often in the past I've gone with something that's very high

contrast, so I've gone with black marks onto white because you've got something really strong

then that you can see.

But I think it's perhaps taken me too far down the line of making really, really bold moves,

which is then hard to pull back into more subtlety. So this time I

started with softer colours, lighter colours, more akin to the colours that I actually

want to be in the final painting and it felt really good to me and I did a time lapse of it because I know these things at this you know when you're going from a totally blank canvas to having something there, that kind of magic of creating

something from nothing.

Looks really good on a time lap, so I actually remember to do it this time and shared it on,

it's on Facebook and Instagram too.

Now if you did that though if you start with the colours that you love

does that make it harder to go back in and go over them now or do you even need to have you got something already?

In one of them I think I've got something already but it's clearly not enough.

But it led me to a really interesting conversation

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