Showing posts with label Spring cleaning/painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spring cleaning/painting. Show all posts

Friday, May 3, 2013

Studio Cleanup continued

It's taken a few evenings work to finish this job.  I've been spending some time getting new paintings framed, varnishing others and set up my Featured Artist wall at Whidbey Art Gallery.
Last night, I had fun crafting!  I was reading Lisbeth Cort's, Whidbey Island Style  web site about adding floral themes for Spring.  Somehow, this inspired me to cover my Art Magazine holders.
I used Golden's soft gel medium, Ikea magazine boxes and magazines.  I started with images that I liked, but then decided to label each box, so I cut out the name of the magazine and added it over the image.
Here are some pictures of the clean studio and the bookcase/magazine storage project.
Happy Spring, Pat
Magazines




Bookcase

Desk & Bookcases

Work center


Thursday, April 25, 2013

Studio Cleanup and Paint

"After" on one wall, see below for "before" and the mess!

One clean corner

Spring is here and the power of fresh clean, organized spaces have been making me work all week.  I have repainted and cleaned the guest room, even reorganizing the shelves in the closet.  Painted the hallway the next day to match the color of the Living Room, what was I thinking with two different colors!  Marching along that wing of the house, I took a look at my studio (two bedrooms converted into studio/office)

and decided to go for it!  I had already done some rearranging of the furniture, but now the walls were calling out, paint me, paint me!  So, I went from a pale anemic color on the wall to Pottery Barn's Berkshire Beige.
It is an interesting neutral, kind of like a mud puddle and water.  Remember, mucking about in a pile of wet mud.  You could tap it and smooth it like cement, the water would rise to the surface, the edges would remain dark, light from the sky would shine on the surface.  This is how this color looks on the wall, light and warm on one wall, deep and cool on another.  Anyhow, the paintings stand out very nicely with this background.
Light vs dark

The mess!



MINI PAINTINGS

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