having recently reworked my art space so that floor sitting is possible, I’m eager to show it off!
what does your studio/art space look like?
here is mine:
Along with a much messier storage area which also houses a creative space for my daughter:
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@Vaishali Prazmari @Nadia Bouhdili @Anastasia Doran @Susan Dobrian your turn!
@Nadia Madden This is a wonderful idea!! Your studio looks beautiful and I especially love the Peacock Throne!! I’m going to be sorting my art space out over the next couple of weeks so I’ll definitely post photos when it’s done!
@Anastasia Doran maybe before and after pics? lol inspire us!
Lovely, Nadia!
My very messy studio! No peacock throne for me!
@Susan Dobrian What a lovely open space! And I love your magnifying glass, I think I need one of those too.
I love seeing all of these! Mine is a mess and I'm a recovering Montessori/Kondo haha, and rehabilitating back into my true self, ie. embrace the mess!
From left to right: Nice Vietnamese pencil case given to me by a good friend who went there on a trip studying weaving and where I keep my brushes for the Faces classes (separate from other classes' brushes to not overuse), also because it's got 2 colours I've always been on the hunt for in the form of original pigments and never found (coral, and a certain kind of Indian green that in miniatures is usually made as a mix of indigo and peori ie. blue and yellow, but I'm still hunting for it as an actual pigment - one of these fairly useless life goals that make me even more determined to find); Cook's Matches for my candles, top left is the actual window - would you believe that behind all the glorious mess there is actually just pure sunlight right now?! - pic of my dad asleep in a hilarious way; red fire blanket; painting of Fire in progress with zarafshan gold sprinkling which Sara will remember (also - nice surrealist coincidence that the Fire painting is next to a fire blanket. Because it's HOT! haha) - and actually on the same theme there is another bit of fire poking out to the right of that painting which belongs to a metre-long big miniature going on the wall; then the Blue City, some architecture on marbled paper; then a small painting of green ginger; below which is a photo of my Dome oil painting (as I'm painting a tiny part of it as part of the big miniature); Grimm's Rainbow (kid's toys), my notebook and a light blue biro, and central to ALL of that, on my laptop screen itself - is @Susan Dobrian 's glorious studio: my studio is the marginalia to your studio in the middle. So there you have it - a glimpse into my messy brain and life right NOW now as I've just read it and it could be tidier but then... I could also go and enjoy a cup of chamomile tea with my kids in the garden and chocolate's waiting. Bye!
@Vaishali Prazmari your studio looks like my studio 90% of the time… I just cleaned and sorted and re-organized a bit to turn it into a floor sitting area and I wanted to capture it before it returns to its usual disorderly sef.
Oh my, how did I not notice my clutter on your screen!😂
LOVE the fire painting in progress above your desk! And like that you’re embracing a bit o’ chaos. Then I won’t beat myself up about it... when your friends mutter about Kondo around you, you know, a girl starts to think they’re telling you something!
Thank you @Kathlyn Powell ! That fire painting is called simply FIRE! - as that's just what it is. I should post about it online somewhere soon, it's actually finished and I'm even pleased to say that the giant miniature behind it is also 90% done, I just worked on it today! Can we see some of your studio selfies too?
Oh, I would so love to see 'Fire' when it is done or whenever you choose to share. I know I will love it! Even though we recently had too close of a call with a wildfire out here just a week or so ago -- our house backs up to a contiguous wild area to parkland that burned. All the creatures -- the heart grieves.
I took a photo of my somewhat tidied up desk -- still a chaotic whirl but you know how it is!
Brilliant window and natural light!
Yes, it is lovely. I see iridescent hummingbirds in their swooping mating dance outside this window, and sometimes the gorgeous gamboge hooded orioles as well.
oh, that skylight!! I'm longing to tear out the whole wall in my studio space and put in floor to ceiling glass to look out at the woods behind my house. But then I worry we will want to sell the house someday, and it would be a strange feature for a laundry room!
@Nadia Madden Oh, I'd go for it, Nadia! Now is the golden moment of our lives, past and future don't exist! (Besides, who could complain of a glorious view while doing laundry?)
I’m very late posting my photos! I ended having a huge sort out of cupboards and stuff because I’m trying to be organised for when I go to uni! So, anyway, here are before and after photos of my desk (I have had this space since I was sixteen so the pictures on the wall vary wildly from photos of Assyrian reliefs and drawings to band posters and fan art, as well as that pomegranate which is a drawing/painting I did in 2018 for an exam.)
Before:
After:
Featuring my skeleton incense burner, salt lamp, tiny Assyrian winged bull, skull, mosaic coaster and desk lion! The wall hasn’t changed much, but I made the desk vaguely more organised!
And here is the other wall, which is always behind me on Zooms - this is mostly things I started as part of my A Level exam which I was basing on memento moris. There is also a lot of stuff I made this time last year and I haven’t really changed anything since - I should refresh it a bit and put some miniatures up!
I love seeing this Anastasia and it's also a nice memory of your very important transition times... from end of A Level, then a kind of enforced gap year of miniatures, then you're off to uni! I'd love to see pics of your studio - however it shapes itself, even a simple desk in a dorm, it's your space - when you do go to uni, and how you continue painting your miniatures there! Miniatures are ideal actually as small and portable.
I like the handy anatomy references. The wall was always brilliantly creative. Yes I agree the desk set up in 'After' looks much clearer. Mine looked like that about a year ago, hehe! Now it's like the 'Before'. Stuff just accumulates like sand!
Thank you! Yes, I like the sort of transitional look of it. I made an effort to surround myself with drawings, paintings and postcards when the pandemic started, I was aware I wasn’t going to be in a gallery, museum or anywhere at all for a while so I didn’t want blank white walls around me all the time! That’s a good idea, too, I will definitely show pics of my studio when I’m at uni! There will be a notice board in my room and I intend to make full use of it and fill it with images! I was thinking about the practicality of miniatures recently, they’re the perfect size to transport easily and will definitely be coming with me to London. I have the task now of working out which other art materials to take with me initially and which to leave behind for a bit…tricky!
Aha yes, my desk is now moving back towards the ‘Before’ photo again, too! I like your desk - full of beautiful things!
@Anastasia Doran good move yes - I was almost tempted to go to a gallery today but with the numbers just decided against for a little while... so making your studio walls into an art gallery is a brilliant idea!
@Vaishali Prazmari Thanks! Yes - hopefully in a couple of months you will be able to go into the gallery! Must be tempting when the galleries are so close!
Anastasia, this is fabulous! What interesting objects for inspiration!!
Thank you, Susan! I love all your paintings around your desk, and the beautiful paintbrush pots!