Why you should break the rules of mixed media [21]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Our main topic was inspired by a question from a listener, who asked ‘why on earth would you use oil pastel with acrylics!” He went on to say “Surely this will lead to problems later in the longevity of the paintings? Oil and water just do not mix after all!” This question launches a wide-ranging discussion into the way we use materials and the risks we are willing to take. We also ask whether materials experimentation should be reserved for certain times, or is it OK to experiment mid-painting. We share some of the mistakes we’ve made with various media, and we debunk some common concerns.
At the root of it all, we agree that oil and water don't mix - and we think that's the fun of using them together! We both believe that risk-taking has been a key factor in our artistic development and we share a belief that you can’t know in advance which media or technique will be a catalyst for new adventures - the chance element is surely part of the journey?
But we also make no claim to technical expertise and cannot promise that our paintings will last hundreds of years. In the end, we feel the trade-off between utmost creativity and guaranteed longevity is worth it - you may not agree and that is totally fine. We all make these decisions for ourselves.
Other topics include "a-ha" moments with technology, coping with busy open events as an introvert, and venturing into outsourcing.
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Artists at Home Open Studios in West London 14-16th June
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| 0:00.0 | and I can see this chance to experiment in a different way coming up, |
| 0:05.0 | but which feels like it's going to involve a lot of mess. |
| 0:08.0 | So I might have a flaw covering. Welcome back to Art Juice. This is episode 21, I can't believe it. This is a |
| 0:27.8 | podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers offering honest, generous, and we hope humorous conversations to feed your soul and get you thinking. |
| 0:37.0 | So we're going to talk something a little bit about materials, experimenting with different materials, what we use, what we know we've seen other people do, |
| 0:48.0 | and just kind of get into that inspired by an email from one of our lovely listeners Michael and I shall read that out later. |
| 0:55.6 | But first of all let's talk about what we've been doing this week. |
| 0:59.4 | So what have you been up to Alice? I have been, actually you'll be impressed with me, I've been |
| 1:07.0 | outsourcing. Oh, what have you outsourced? Well we're talking skin of our teeth here, but yes, yesterday, so last night. |
| 1:18.6 | So my mailing list is now at a point where I have to start paying for it and that means that |
| 1:25.2 | that is a good time to review if it's the right platform and if I'm going to start paying |
| 1:31.2 | this amount of money for it should I be on a different platform that allows |
| 1:34.9 | a little bit more complexity? And I know this day has been coming and I haven't done anything |
| 1:41.1 | about it until it's here and yeah so I thought right I need to get |
| 1:46.4 | somebody on board with this otherwise this is going to be one of those things that keeps |
| 1:49.9 | getting pushed from week to week to week. Anyway, lots of good experimental learning in it. |
| 1:55.5 | We had a great call. |
| 1:58.2 | We established the boundaries for the first set of stuff |
| 2:00.7 | that she's going to do. |
| 2:02.0 | And then I got an email saying, so these are the people I think we should |
| 2:05.2 | delete who haven't opened the last X amount of emails and I thought jolly good how lovely is this when |
| 2:10.2 | somebody works on something and it job is done and you haven't done it and then I looked at the |
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