So my belief that I had when I started painting again was Hello everybody and welcome to episode 85 of art juice. This is honest,

generous and humorous conversations all about making art that will feed your creative soul and get you

thinking with me Alice Sheridan and me Louise Fletcher and today we are going to

talk about false beliefs about making art, but before we get into that, that's

going to throw up some goodies, isn't it?

It really is.

So these are, yeah, well we'll get into that, when we get into it, but before that, how's your week been?

Been a good week. It started off with a lot of painting and a new idea that I'm exploring, which is interesting because it's

challenging me about my patients.

And then it's finishing with the furniture that I had made being painted, all of it getting painted and I've got some new cabinets from IKEA which arrived today for storing brushes and all sorts of stuff and I took one look at them

took looked in the box wanted to cry I mean I'm expecting a chest of draws and I get all these bits of chipboard and

Oh draws from IKEA are painful. So anyway as I speak while I speak to you and

he's over there putting it all together I'd rather pay than than face that so but the

painting the idea that came to me for my painting this is interesting because it's

challenging me the whole new way of working of being

patient.

So I've talked about the sanding idea and I've been working on a lot of that and I've been sanding things and then painting over top and sanding back and

really enjoying that. It's a very different way of working for me because I'm being very

meticulous and tiny brushes and delicate things which I'm not used to

doing but I'm enjoying. However I then had this idea I'd so enjoyed cutting the

canvas last that for those who didn't hear I cut some

canvas off a big some big stretch of bars I cut it out a painted canvas one that

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