Aug 5, 2026 · 26 min · 12 segments
What happens when you have several strong miniature project ideas, but no clear sense of which one to begin? In this episode of Her Shrink Ray Eye, I look at why choosing a next project can become…
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[upbeat music] Well, hi there, and welcome back to HerrShrinkRay I. I'm Joan Biediger, and today I want to talk about something that doesn't immediately register as a problem.

You have ideas, not vague ideas, but concrete possibilities you can almost see taking shape.

Maybe you have a figure you've wanted to paint for months, a box diorama idea that you keep coming back to, a strange object that could become the center of a scene, maybe a historical subject you've already researched, or it could be a half-formed experiment involving light, scale, or some material you've never used before.
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[upbeat music] Well, hi there, and welcome back to HerrShrinkRay I. I'm Joan Biediger, and today I want to talk about something that doesn't immediately register as a problem.

You have ideas, not vague ideas, but concrete possibilities you can almost see taking shape.

Maybe you have a figure you've wanted to paint for months, a box diorama idea that you keep coming back to, a strange object that could become the center of a scene, maybe a historical subject you've already researched, or it could be a half-formed experiment involving light, scale, or some material you've never used before.