studio stylish

a sunny day - in every sense

Today the sun light was fantastic and everything felt good in the studio. Somehow I felt fine with the current circumstances - not having any public art commissions going on, no more teaching summer courses in screen printing... My money will last for some time and I should just stay cool - and cherish this opportunity to be free to work on my own art.

I've done a lot of thinking lately as it has been 10 years (in May) since I started my company as an artist. And in autumn it will be five years since I wrote my first post in my Art as Business series. What have I achieved? Am I on the right track?

more celebration!

My company - as an artist - will celebrate its 10th anniversary in May. Oh, my - times flies! This probably also calls for some serious thoughts about what I'm doing right and wrong .............................................  but for now I will just blow my 200 pink balloons in my studio and hardly work.

I mean work hard.

UPDATE: hardly work turned out to be more correct

my studio ambiance

In July photographer Annika Broman visited me in my new bright white studio. I also opened the doors to KKV for her  - now you can see some of the photos at her website.

sketching in real size

Normally I sketch in scale - like 1:10 - for big size commissions, but for this suggestion I've been feeling I need to see it all in real size as well. This is to be my art piece for the preschool I made the visual play with in spring (another commission than the one with Superman/Snowwhite) I'm very happy having a bigger studio these days!

Time for vacation!

Today was my last working day before summer vacation. Normally I try to take four weeks off in a row, but this year will be an exception. I will have to go back working on my commissions (one in the execution phase, the other in the sketching phase) in the middle of summer to keep things going. So I left my studio well organized to be able to just pick up the work again on a rainy summer day (the sunny summer days are not for working!).

through someone else's lens

Yesterday I had photographer Annika Broman visiting my studio. It's always interesting to see what someone else notices about your studio. She both took photos of the same things I have taken photos of - and of stuff I haven't photographed at all.

getting settled

I'm already feeling super comfortable in my new studio! Normally it takes some time for me to feel at home in a new studio - but not this time ...

I've got storage

I've got space

I've got view I've also got a nice kitchen and a spacious lunchroom - shared with other artists. And I've got a roof I can use for working outdoors/ having my lunch in the sun - shared with the seagulls.

I will be thankful later

For what feels like uncountable days I've been cleaning, arranging, sorting, cutting old paintings into pieces, throwing stuff away etc. The amount of stuff I've collected! I'm keeping the old self portrait though (it must be more than 15 years old). I laughed when I realized I still use those working paints, but now for screen printing ... By Friday I should have arranged it all in my studio ...

my new studio; arranging it all

I'm going through everything I have and I plan thoroughly where everything should be - this time I'm going for a system that will work! (I need systems or I'm a total mess)  ... and I'm so happy about my sliding doors. I let them slide left and right - and everything goes so smoothly. Just some more white paint and they will be perfect!