Inside the Studio: Art Materials

Hello, more photos of my studio! This area is situated to the left of work desk when entering the studio. It's also opposite from the assemblage shelving seen in previous post. The wall shelving works great for storing various painting supplies. Below the shelving sits a cabinet containing more supplies such as paints, tapes, staple guns, heating plate for melting beeswax, and other materials I'd rather keep hidden from sight when not in use.

Basket with pastels, chalks, and watercolors. Upper shelve holds watercolor mediums, egg tempera, and porcelain watercolor dispensers.

Shelves hold colored pencils, inks, including one of my pieces titled 'A kind Act'.

More shelves containing dry pigments, ink pens, nib holders,  paint stirrers, and milk paints.

Box in background contains oil pastels, and craypas. Box in foreground holds vintage buttons, wooden tags, and small abalones to use in collage and/or assemblage work.

Color charts for milk paints and acrylics. Behind the hydrangea is a fragile maple leaf which I'd pressed between book pages many years ago. I'd snapped off the leaf from a tree that grew in a back yard where I once lived. It's just a little memento of the place even though color and suppleness no longer remains.

Stay tune for more photos!

Comments

[Lisa]

I'm so totally impressed by your beautiful work space. I love how everything just flows together. It's all so serene and I can see how you could just get lost in your work in wonderful space like this.

You also have killer organizational skills too. I think that's so key in helping the creative process when you know exactly where your tools and supplies are and you don't have to go digging around for something you know you have but just can't find.

I hate to admit that I do entirely too much digging for stuff-lol.

Have a great week!

Beautiful pictures.

[June Parrish Cookson]

Hi Lisa,

Thank you!

Makes a big difference for me at least to work in an organized studio. Needless to say, I accomplish much more. Yet, there are times when it becomes overbearingly disheveled and work efficiency begins to suffer. So, best to keep it as tidy as possible.

Cheers!

[Brenda Kula]

You have to be as compulsively organized as I am! If not more! It is beautiful though, isn't it, when everything has a place and a place has everything? I enjoy everything you do.
Brenda Kula

[June Parrish Cookson]

Hi Brenda,

Agreed! Thanks for visiting.

Cheers.

[Helen Chisholm]

Wow! Deliciously Inspirational

[June Parrish Cookson]

Hi Helen,

Thanks for visiting and compliment.

[Olga]

So very pretty!!! I wish I had that much space for my arts/crafts. Instead, I store my supplies in two drawers of the dresser. Sometimes I forget what I have.

[Suzy Pierce]

They say "A kind Act" ripples through the universe like a pebble through the sea. I have devoured your studio photos as I would a chocolate cake right now (I am on Weight Watchers!) You have fed my heart and soul and I sincerely thank you! Suzy
p.s. I absolutely love your assemblage!

[Todd Smith]

wow! I wish my workspace was as neat and beautiful as yours! Your studio is a work of art itself. Also, your photos of it are outstanding.

Todd

[June Parrish Cookson]

Hi Todd,

Thank you for the comment and visiting. I'll have to check out your website.