No, not finally I have finished the painting - still a ways to go on this one. Finally, the studio is just about finished and totally functional. I took a bunch of pictures but they don't look much different from the work-in-progress ones I posted before. The tiling is done, the joints are filled, the rooms are finished. There is just one smallish area that still has to be mosaic-tiled and that will take about an hour at most (I hope).
So I posted the above painting because that is what I worked on first in the 'new' studio. It seems to have taken soooooooooooooooooooooo long. First, getting the rooms done and then, seeing that I had all of my paintings in the storage room, I decided to make decent photographs of them all and measure them so that I could post them on this website. It took about two days - move paintings, photo paintings, measure paintings, replace paintings, next. Now all are done except the ones hanging in the house. I am afraid that I wimped out of un-hanging them, carrying them all the way to the studio, photographing them, measuring them, bringing them all back and hanging them again. Two of them are around two metres high and getting them through the doorways is a challenge. The one titled "the Queen" stands on an easel in the kitchen-dining room where the light is a little better and so that one got its picture taken, measured and posted. It is painted on a board and is quite heavy measuring 122cm x 81cm so I did not want to struggle with it to the studio - down the steps, across the yard, slide the door, etc. and doing it all in reverse ten minutes later, particularly not on the ice and then in the rain. It is winter.
What took the longest, after actually building the storage room and tiling both areas, was getting all the photos onto the website and watermarking them - several people convinced me that this is necessary and so, in a panic, I agreed to watermark. That took about two days too. Now, the website is all neat and tidy and ready to roll - except for the Photographs page that is pathetic and the Sculpture page that is empty. I will take care of those two at some point. My current little concern is whether it is better to have all the paintings under the heading "Paintings" or, as I have them now, divided under "Paintings" into the three sub-pages. I will have to live with the current layout for the moment because I do not know what is best. Opinions are welcome.
And then I found a bunch of rolled up paintings that have not been unrolled since we moved, two years ago. I don't remember what they are and so will be unraveling them tomorrow. I might have to get the camera and tripod back into the studio but I expect there won't be more than five paintings to deal with. They might also be academy work and so not necessarily of great interest to me. I found two other rolls of work I did in the academy and they are still rolled up and neatly stored. I also have four big drawing-holders (the big flat cardboard things with elastics in two of the corners) that are still wrapped in plastic since the move. I wonder what drawings they contain.
Painting in the new studio is terrific: all that space, everything in its place (for the moment) and daylight. Tomorrow, the plan is to finish that bit of tiling and then get back to painting. I am hoping to finish the one above, work on the other village view and perhaps finish one of the two 'faces' that are not shown anywhere on the website or social media. During sleepless nights, I am tempted to get to the studio and work, but it is so cold out there and it would take about an hour to get the studio temperature up to a bearable 13°C. This is a strong deterrent, for now. Perhaps, when the weather is milder, I might consider putting a camp-bed in there and then on sleepless nights I could go and paint and just go to sleep as soon as I feel like I might. Worth keeping in mind. The best time to work seems to be between midnight and three in the morning.
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