Have you ever looked at a photo in a magazine of an "Artist's Studio" and it is clean, neat, and organized... and you think "that is NOT a working studio!" !? I know I do. I also know that I would LIKE my studio to be clean, neat, and organized but it never lasts. I can clean, or I can create. I just can't do both at the same time. THIS is what my studio looks like this morning.
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It gets crazy in there sometimes. There's even some of my son's lego in there which he's sneaked in ha!!!
It's been a while since I took photos of my studio or "my room" as we call it here at home. Somethings have changed, I've rearranged it many times in four years. This is how it looks today. I'm still waiting to get nice new curtains and replace the plastic drawers for wooden ones but I love it. It is my happy place and my refuge. Entrance Meditation table, my plants, painting table, desk mainly for computer work, printer trunk. Reading and stitching corner, some times snoozing corner ;) Exit corner, you can see my bag collection some of them made by me. Painting table close up Desk close up.
Pierre Bonnard painting Le Cannet; France, 1945.
Photo source and dialogue by Elise Valdorcia The desire to create stirs within each of us, the question is what gift(s) were we born with, and how do we take it from seed to bloom and share it with others? Photo source and dialogue by Elise Valdorcia Elise said, "My greenhouse-style studio is conducive to creating all kinds of artwork, in all formats. It is an inspiring workplace where materials take form and gather movement, guided by shadows and emotion. The past meets the contemporary, poetry and dreams are made real, and works are crafted. My studio is a beating heart that brings sculptors from quattrocentro Florence back to life." Photo source and dialogue by Elise Valdorcia Each Saturday I like to use my blog to platform an artist that I admire. Today it is Elise! Photo source and dialogue by Elise Valdorcia "Sculpted wood, baroque and contemporary lines, gold leaf, glass, sheet metal, and paper mâché—they all meet here, and the adventure can be colorful or extremely minimalist." Adds Elise about what she used to create her beautiful art. Photo source and dialogue by Elise Valdorcia Photos source and dialogue by Elise Valdorcia Technique from our ancestors Elise creates paper mâché sculptures using a time-honored technique. Paper mâché first appeared in the Far East in the 8th century and made its way to Europe in the 16th century. In Italy, paper mâché earned recognition as a noble and poetic art form. Photo source and dialogue by Elise Valdorcia “I regretted not leaving Carrare marble for paper mâché more often, this divine material that always went beyond it in nobility and finesse.” From the memoirs Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor and goldsmith, 1500-1571 Photo source and dialogue by Elise Valdorcia Follow this link to locate where Elise offers her art for purchase. Galleries & Stores in France and abroad Photo source and dialogue by Elise Valdorcia More about Elise: Each piece is unique "From my workshop, the Elise Valdorcia Studio in Provence, I take each piece from idea to drawing to creation. I make mirrors, light fixtures, small tables, and other household objects, harmoniously mixing styles and eras. I am an artist and decorator, specialized in antiquing objects (using polychromy or gold leaf). My passion for my work comes through in my paper mâché creations. Laurent makes wooden sculptures, creating unique pieces from 18th- and 19th-century wood. He also practises marquetry, having...
Three years ago I took a brave bold step in the direction of my dreams, and set a table in my studio to film my first class ever: Layers of Light. Three years and over 1000 students later, I still remember that first, awkward filming session and the light that filled my soul…
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fell in love with Claire Basler’s studio/home, flowers and her garden, old iron works building on the outskirts of Paris
Claude Firmin. Detail form The studio of caster Sadaune, 1901.
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Drawing board of artist Pauline Baynes (1922-2008), illustrator of C S Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia, with the view through the window onto the garden of her home - Rock Barn Cottage, Dockenfield, Sussex. Photograph taken a year before her death in August 2008.
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Communication.........I think that’s why I enjoy reading so much…and why I like to paint the figure reading. I think of it almost as a sacred meditation connecting to the long linkage of the essence of individual souls. There’s the capacity for raw honesty in writing and the possibility of true intimacy. We can be that other person or at the least know what that person is feeling and thinking. It's a door into another’s soul present and past, alive and dead. Not only are we allowed to say things in books and writing that we could never express privately or publicly but we are also available to hear secret things that one cannot say. There was a movie about CS Lewis...I forget the title. Sir Anthony Hopkins I think was CS Lewis. And he said something to the effect of "I read so I'm not alone." If I painted a solitary figure not absorbed in an event one could say she looked lonely but I dare say that all my figures though they are solitary do not look lonely.
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Hermann Kern 1839-1912 Hongarije
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Image 32 of 36 from gallery of Bucktown Three AD Submission / Studio Dwell Architects. Photograph by Marty Peters
