Studio space for me! Part 2

 At first, built a shelf and brought a dinner table that the neighbour throwing away. I talked to the owner if she mind I take it... She said go ahead!!! It was very very heavy to carry tho it was for free, anyway lucky me!

And to make the room separated between natural light area and light controlled area, I hung the curtain. It was very tough job, had to rent a 12ft ladder and carried it to my space on the 3rd floor of the building... 

 I set up the self and easel like this.

I have quite a few projects going on. Old master copies (oil and charcoal works).

And practicing direct painting. 2015 first work I finished is this. Vanitas theme...

Studio space for me! Part 1

At the end of December 2014, I acquainted a lady who has a studio in an artists co-op building.

Through her, I found there was an opening and I talked to admin of the group and luckily got this space. It's 16' x16' with 10-12 'high high ceiling!, 2 big windows facing to east side.

I moved in with minimum equipment first.

It's a nice size studio, and I though it would be great to make it half room for natural light setting, and the other for control light setting. I masked one window, but still full of light. 

So I had to plan a bit more to make it work (continues...).

Start of the new year 2015

A couple of days before the end of 2014, my husband asked me to prepare a some greeting cards. So I had to generate something new yearly very quickly. I had a linocut mat, so I tried. 

Year of the ram. The writing said step by step into the new year.

It's been a long long time to do "版画 (han ga)". I used to do every year for new year's greeting when I was a little until I started to draw Anime characters for that.

Anyway, wish you have a wonderful year.