Hello Blog world! I have once again moved house, packed, unpacked and set up a new studio! Its been a mad 12 months, what with raising a baby (whose routines change on a weekly basis!), a high maintenance golden retriever, buying a house and trying to pack some creativity into the gaps around the edge. We are all pretty frazzled, but this blog post reassures me that we are well and truly back on the path again.
The studio was one of my priorities - some of you will know how important it is to have your own space to be creative and to leave your stuff everywhere while you are mid-work. I think this is even more true when you are a parent / carer for another person. You really need to have your time away in your own space, physically as well as mentally. This is why I nabbed the second largest room in the house for my studio and set about setting it up before we had even assembled our bed.
As the area was already carpeted, we used an adhesive plastic floor covering to protect the carpet and then stuck a tarp over the top as I tend to get a bit messy with my stuff...
Getting all my things out again was such a joy. I had forgotten about certain things and was able to finally organise things as I wanted them. Its still a work in progress (the next addition will be a desk in the opposite corner of this room, so I can undertake drawing work and fine detail stuff as well as some admin. I was so pleased that during their time in transit and storage, none of my work had been damaged or become mouldy, which can very easily happen.
Once stuff was out of the boxes, I was free to organise everything as I had always wanted. I still have some of my promotional posters etc to go up on the walls and I hope that my collection will only grow!
I have already started on some new works - a bit different to my Alpine scenery but I'm enjoying it immensely. Now things are up and running, I hope to keep you all up to date on my progress, new findings and techniques, successes and failures.
