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. 

Red Chalk

Took a workshop with one of the instructor in the school in early Summer and made some copy of old masters...

  And made one by myself at home. I believed that this drawing by Da Vinci, tho the original one is done by one of Da Vinci's student.... Haha!

un ragazzo abbraccia un agnello

This was inspired by Catholic theme. Done it after the Red chalk workshop. It was fun, tho need more practice. I wanted to add some gold leaves, tho back ground was paper, and not so compatible with the glue of it. I'll try maybe wooded board next time.

  

Completion of the 3rd level

This is my latest work that I finished in May. Well, strictly speaking, I can still work on my paining to make it better. But I got permission to go on, so I decided to think about next project, my 1st still life painting.

And here is the process of this for people who are curious about it.

Few interesting things happened during I was working on this. Tho, one episode form them. My extra neighbour left the school saying the school's method is too much control and no freedom.  And when she left, she pat my shoulder specifically and good-bye me. We were not close at al since I didn't like her strog perfume, but anyway, it was too bad she decided to leave school since I can see her style of work needs realism and if she has better skill to do so, her work will be different level. I didn't realized until she left about she was suffering beside me who was working patiently on tight controlled theme.  She didn't like the medium (she was using charcoal) and didn't have patience to get used to it. I realized as the work turn to tighter an tighter, it is easier and easier to fix the mistakes. For me, it was like the work guided and showed me the part I need to work on.   So In the end, It was interesting experience like the process was a conversation between me and the paining. 

End of the semester

Here are 2 figure works done in this semester. One is red chalk style. 

And the other one is body part study. I have done infant with mandolin drawing which gave me a good sense of how to render fingers. I got a good feedback from my teachers and classmates. Another thing to note for this irk is, hand and arm is still first painting stage, but thigh and knee were 2nd painting stage. I liked that I can jump into 2nd stage earlier and correction and branding at the same time.