Back to my Summer Routine!

This mornings art time was spent making my small studio space functional. While rearranging things I kept thinking about an art video I show my students during the school year. The video is about Edgar Degas, in it he goes on a shouting rampage about how his new studio is half the size of his previous studio and I now understand how much that can bring one to have a tantrum. Still, I was able to overcome my new space restraints and get some work done. I even found my camera, now if only the battery charger would turn up so I could take some new photos of my new small studio.

This is the finished commissioned painting that I mentioned in yesterdays post.

Too Busy for Summer!

I had initially intended to up date my blog everyday and then I decided once a week would be good and now I am not sure when to do it, it is turning out to be a crazy busy summer! The biggest change is that I no longer have my little house next door for my studio, it is getting rented out. I have spent the last week moving my art things into one room in my house, along with a bunch of other things that had been in storage in the little house. My new studio room is a bit cramped right now as you can see:

I also finised the commissioned painting and have a photo to share but I misplaced my camera during the move so I will have to post that later. I do miss that painting, though it is nice to get paid for making an artwork but then I do not get to keep it and that makes me a bit sad.

Well, time for me to get my studio functional again!

First Week of Summer!

The summer is off to a great start! I have begun working on several paintings, finished one, and have many more in the sewing phase. Today was spent buying wood to make stretcher frames and then nailing the quarter rounds into the 1x2's, I still have sixteen more to go! Here are some of the in progress paintings I have been working on:

This is a commissioned work that is going to have strong
saturated colors, but I really like how this first layer turned out
and I am thinking of doing a series of pastel washed
out colors on this style of canvas.

This is my third painting made by twisting the canvas.
It is the first diptych I have done since
being assigned to do one in college.

I think that if you are going to do a diptych you must have
a reason (my original reason of just happening to have
two stretcher frames of the same size does not cut it) so I
am going to explore making an opposite painting and will
be using the same color pallet for each, just in reverse.

This is my second twisted canvas painting and it
was originally going to be shades of pink with
black in the folds of the canvas. I am glad that I
decided against my original color plan, these colors remind
me of a ripe nectarine and are much more vibrant.