Sunday, August 30, 2009

A List of Studio Musings

1. It is officially the Red Room.

2. It's bigger than any other space I've ever had to work in, which means it's going to be messier than any other space I've had to work in. (And Dan is not a fan of messes, so I should keep up on that.)

3. There is a HUGE mirror in my studio, which could easily come in handy in any number of situations... but I have a feeling that it's either going to be me using it so that I have a nude model to work from and that I'll be painting a lot of myself (which is normal, but strange to think about since I've never done it before), or that I'll become incredibly self-aware/self-conscious about my body since I'll be staring at it all the time since the mirror literally takes up an entire wall.

4. I am very glad for this HUGE mirror nonetheless, because at least if it gets messy, the room still feels big!

5. Art is fun, but not as fun when you find yourself sans-Disney Princess.

6.  It's orange. Which is different. And bright. And fantastic.  And I'm completely unaccustomed to it. Accompanying my vibrant orange walls, there are gold satin sheets hanging on the walls catching paint that goes places I didn't mean to send it flying, and a deep red rug on the floor. And I love it! And I'm pretty confident that my color palette is about to become incredibly vivid and warm, or will go to the opposite extreme and be very cool and calming.

7.  "Barack Obama is black."

8.  I've got a convenient shelf for wine, but no wine on it.

9. I've got a record player, and more records than I know what to do with thanks to Dan having about 20 times more vinyl than I do.  

10. I discovered something horrible about myself tonight, and I know that the reason I discovered it is because I was in my studio.  As excited as I am to have the Red Room, I'm a little scared of it now because if this is only week one of being in it and I discovered something this disturbing, then what's next?

11. I have a list of ideas in my sketchbook, and I need to start acquiring supplies to make them.  Home Depot rejects, here I come.

12.  I've got more ideas than I know what to do with...  it's going to be a good Fall!

Monday, August 3, 2009

I'm not naked...


...but I feel like I am.  

I've set some artsy fartsy goals for myself lately.  One of them is to become better at drawing, and another to sketch more frequently about whatever pops into my head.  So you can imagine the look of horror on my face when I realized that I left my sketchbook at work last night.  It's sad when the starving artist has to decide between using gas to go get her sketchbook on her day off or waiting for two days since I have today off and a work meeting not in the store on Tuesday.

In the meantime, I'm going to try and distract myself by drawing octotrees for the one piece that is in progress right now, and I'm hoping some new music might help to enhance the distraction?  I just bought the Hazards of Love by The Decemberists, Noble Beast by Andrew Bird, and my second copy of In Rainbows by Radiohead.  (The first copy went AWOL along with an old lover a while back, I think.) Hooray for F.Y.E.'s $9.99 sale and a roommate with the hook up.

Uhg, this is soooooo frustrating.  We'll see how long I go before I break down and head to work to get my baby!