Those are painting tools of my good friend and customer Suzy Barnard. Her studio is right on the SF Bay, and she sees ships daily in all kinds of light and atmospheric conditions. I've been making things for her for about 15 years. She's from the UK.
It always fascinates me that artists' studios and actual workspaces look like such disaster areas in a lot of cases (in pictures I have seen anyway), yet they bring beauty out of it like a phoenix rising from the ashes.
Well, they really are factories for the production of art works after all. Most people keep their studios fairly orderly, but the rest do not. Part of the reason for messy studios is that after a while they are overflowing with work and incomplete projects, and the workspace gets reduced. Then they become difficult to clean, and "areas" develop that become dumping grounds. It's good to reorganize the studio occasionally so that the old habitual dump areas move somewhere else, and it takes a little while to find them. Then they get full, and it's time to clean up and reorganize again.
I've had more dreams about studio spaces than about living rooms, kitchens, or bedrooms. I'm currently living in this small house, but I am thinking of converting the living/dining room into a studio space, as I feel more comfortable in that environment than in a comfortable home like space. Nobody comes over too often, and most of my friends are artists anyway, so they'd be fine with it - 'specially if there were pastels and watercolors laying around for them to play with.
Right now, I have a painting studio downstairs, and a large woodworking shop there too. It's not large enough, but what ya gonna do?
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Date: 2010-10-18 05:11 pm (UTC)I've had more dreams about studio spaces than about living rooms, kitchens, or bedrooms. I'm currently living in this small house, but I am thinking of converting the living/dining room into a studio space, as I feel more comfortable in that environment than in a comfortable home like space. Nobody comes over too often, and most of my friends are artists anyway, so they'd be fine with it - 'specially if there were pastels and watercolors laying around for them to play with.
Right now, I have a painting studio downstairs, and a large woodworking shop there too. It's not large enough, but what ya gonna do?