The Studio

I have entered the cave of winter, the transition to the studio has never been so easy. This year the seasons have been very clear in the line between fall and winter. Thank you. I'm not torn between wanting to be in the garden and in the studio.  Doing both is always a struggle for me, a balance that I never quite achieve.

my place to sit when I can get the chair cleaned off

Looking back at some of the work tables,  trial prints from the "Coffee Cantata" on east wall

Drawing wall on right [west wall] with view out the south door to the studio garden

Looking south again 

View if the long and very messy work tables [looking west]

My find of the week, hidden away, a HUGE folded, now unfolded sheet of brown paper,  stapled to the drawing wall

Looking north, another messy work table, big printer, where I sit to use J. computer to print,

My Lovely Messy Studio

Well, it's full steam ahead, getting ready for this unexpected exhibition. Good thing I did not leave the studio entirely for the garden as I do most summers. This summer is the first in 10 years where I am trying for a different balance, both studio and garden. Being a compulsive, or maybe that is obsessive, sort of person I usually love doing only one thing at a time, but this year it's time to expand my horizons to TWO. So here are some studio photos from yesterday. When you enter the studio [you are looking west] you are greeted by a tailors' dummy wearing my apron, which I can never find because I never put it back in the right spot. Now I can find it. Next photo on top is one of my work tables, actually an old one of John's, that is on coasters so I can move it around. At the end of the table is the growing stack of finished prints and beside it my big printer, tastefully wearing an old T-shirt that I use to polish the prints. Bottom left is the west working wall; I tend to work on this wall but right now some of the images for the show are drying. At the bottom left of the photo you can see another work table, with my irons, heat gun ect; all the tools I need to seal the prints with encaustic. The bottom right photo [looking south] is the view out to the garden from that table and where I am spending most of my time these days. And in the center is another work table, beside a niche in the concrete for my treasures.

Studio shots, July 4, 2011