build an art studio

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we are settling a lawsuit (soon I hope) and want to buy a house, when we do, my first order of business is to build a little studio out back!

once i have my own place, or place with someone else, i want to be able to have my own space where i can paint. i would ideally like a lot of space, but even any room would be awesome.

I woulnt care if it was small..Id just love it….specially if itd be overlooking the ocean…more peaceful///aaahhhhhh

I can’t do anymore today, because I have to set up these canvases for my show tonight. But yeah, I did some stuff, and I think it looks good. It doesn’t look like I did much, but all the shelves didn’t get added until last night and all of the 18X24 pieces of paper have been organized and stowed underneath the table, which is pretty cool as a place to store large drawings.

I think I might need one more set of shelves, we’ll see. (:

Eh. Getting there.

1.) When cleaning up/going through large sketch pads 18X24 seperate the stuff into FIVE piles

1. trash to be recycled
2. stuff that could be framed or sold as original sketches
3. stuff that could be altered for collages or mail art
4. stuff that is only written on one side that you can reuse*
5. stuff that is clean on both sides…

1. Okay so I am not big into recycling but I think I really should start, esp. as an artist, we have the potential to use ALOT of stuff. So I am going through the papers, and what ever has writing on both sides will be folded in a paper bag to be recycled
2. The other pile, I use one of the actual empty sketch pads, you know what I’m talking about the one with the cardboard back and the front page that says Sketch Pad 18X24 etc and place them all in it and then take clips to keep it shut, label it stuff that can be photographed for your portfolio and then sold or given away as gifts
3. Collages are neat, if you have a sketch you did you really like, cut it out and put it behind a photo graph or neat collagish type thing, or cut them up and use them for nice mail art. I have a small ring of about 4 people that do I mail art with it’s great, I think we all have little scraps of art that we haven’t a clue what to do with make a nice post card with it, scan the art onto you computer so you have a copy of it for your portfolio or website and then mail the baby off!For now do what you did to pile number 2, clip it in an empty sketch pad or if you don’t have one of those just sandwich the art between two pieces of card board or postboard and clip.
4. Okay if you are in art school you’ll realize that your teachers think you are rich or that your parents are rich, as for me I work for a small non-profit and I def, am making just enough to survive and go to school, about 185 a week. So, take all the paper you’ve drawn on one side and collate about 10 to 15 pages and staple them at the top and reuse them for quick figure sketches in class, it will help you avoid bringing that BIG Heavy 100 paged sketch pad with you to class/figure drawing session all the time, you can just bring two small packets of paper.
5.) For the paper that some how isn’t in your sketch pad but is empty on both sides, staple that too and save it, you can use it for projects or for when your teacher wants you do an hour long figure drawing, etc. or if you notice that a figure during a session is in a pose you really want to capture, you’ll have nice paper for it.

Conserve what you can. You’d be surprised what you can do with it. (:

Richard and I eat ramen on the floor on in bed so now the kitchen is mine (:

So the things that still needed to be work on are:

All of the 18X24 sheets of paper, what the heck are you going to do with them? It should NOT be that much stuff! There are probably 100 pieces you really like and the rest you just really need to either get rid off our use for collages

But as for the ones you keep, do you want to roll them up or what? Eh, a nice cardboard 18X24 or larger, holder would be good.

As for the extra sketch books, I will use them next semester, but I need some where to put them for now, in general though, I should try to keetp them down to one newspaper pad and one nice paper pad and maybe if needed one water color pad. but regardless, even with art supplies it seems that less if more.

I also need to clean out the closet so I can put things in there too.

As for the sewing machine, i would like to get that set up and operational, I might look for another little end table …

AHHHH.

Regardless the most important thing at this point is dealing with the 18 X 24 drawings.

I would like to upload them online and make prints of them, and sell them at the art show. (:

okay.

I’m done rambling.

jooyoung

PS, this whole thing is in my kitchen. I’ll upload a photo of my whole kitchen you can see how I used my space, it might help you see how your kitchen can be an artist studio. etc.etc. blah blah blah

Other supplies like chalk, pencils and paint brushes etc,

yeah I dunno. there is still some work to be done.

here it is…