A Clean Enough Studio

The studio cleanup is done for now, there are still a few things that need to be gone through and sorted, but for now there is space to work.




The counter is visible and below is the wax table and the big board behind it, ready to use.






Directly below is the corner where all the old buckets of paint had been stored , for years. Now it holds the boxes I need for shipping.









The sink is visible again.
One end of the ten foot table has a new cover, the old one is hanging on the design wall so I can decide if it's done yet.



This space will never be pretty, but it's functional and feels good to work in. I've even spent some time sitting in that chair above pondering what to do next.



The Weekly Leaf
This week I started with a leaf that I found on the sidewalk while taking my morning walk. I rolled green paint onto my gelli plate placed the leaf (it had been pressed for a while) onto the plate. Did one print with a scrap of cloth and then took the leaf off and did my second print, which looks like a tree.

Week#20

Daily Stitching updates

Gelli prints #131-#137

Shades of Orange #58-#64

This has been a very frustrating post to write, blogger won't let me add pictures like I normally do. Instead of being able to use the little photo icon that lets me load all of them at once, I had to drag and drop each one in individually. Not fun!

Linked to "Off the Wall Friday"

AQM and cleanup progress

My quilt "White on Black #3" is in Oberlin, OH at the Artist as Quiltmaker show. The show opens on May 15 so if you are in the Ohio area stop in and take a look.

Here's a link for more information;
http://www.favagallery.org/aqm-2016-gallery.html

Studio B cleanup is progressing, the floor in the back is now visible and I can get to the big white board. The best part is that my sweet husband borrowed a pickup and took away the six 5 gallon cans of paint and the dozen smaller cans of paint that were in the space when we bought it 11 years ago. I'm not done and the room looked worse for a while.

This is not how to store quilts!

Look, a floor!

I now need to take a trip to the dollar store and pickup some more pool noodles and make covers and bags for a few of the quilts. The back part is clean, now I need to move forward and work on the front. I promise more progress next week.

The Weekly Leaf

I did no printing at all this week, the table was covered with stuff. Instead I traced a leaf onto freezer paper, ironed the freezer paper to my hand dyed fabric and stitched around the leaf.

Week #19

Daily stitching updates

Gelli Prints #124-#130

Shades of Orange #51-#57

Linked to "Off the Wall Friday"

Time to clean the studio

Red X

44" x 64"

The piece above hangs in my dining/living room, it is one of my favorites. I've been pondering doing something with big swooping brush marks again but haven't primarily because of space. Now I'm the very fortunate person that has two studios, so I do have the space. Work like this takes place in Studio B, my wet studio, unfortunately I've not kept it organized and cleaned. I have been doing small stuff like my leaves and gelli prints, but something large and messy is going to require some work to get the space ready. So today I'm posting a few pictures here to make this very public so that I can show some improvement in the next few weeks.

 The view from the door.

 To the right of the door

The soy wax and encaustic table.

In the back you can see a big white piece, that is a 4 x8 piece of foam insulation that I pin my fabric to when I do the type of painting I want to do. Right now I can't get to it, there is a whole lot of stuff piled in front of it.

To add to the urgency of cleaning this up, I've scheduled an indigo play day for the 21st of this month.

There is a small group of us that get together usually once a week, but not always. For the past three weeks we've been meeting here in Studio A because I have two sewing machines set up, two ironing stations and space for everyone. We pieced a quilt that will be used by a local organization for a fund raiser. It got finished last week and has now gone to the long arm quilter.

The Weekly Leaf

I got out an old silk screen this week and did a quick screen print on hand dyed fabric.

The screen and the print.

Week #18

Daily stitching updates

Gelli prints #117-#123

Shades of Orange #44-#50

Linked to "Off the Wall Friday"