So there it is: my studio for the next week or so. It'll be great when it's finished but in the meantime I have had to find somewhere else to work. I'll have to bring that lamp on the left into the house because the dressing room seems to be the best option at the moment; the lights in there are all wrong so I'll need that lamp.
In a fit of panic, I packed up a selection of oil paints, brushes, solvents, rags and small, half-way there canvasses, some as old as three or four years, with the intention of 'finishing' them on the desk in the dressing room. So far, on day three of the studio shut-down, I have managed to put all that stuff away, watch all the latest news on Youtube, answer emails and work a little bit on a pencil drawing that I had quite forgotten about from three or four months ago.
I am working my way down and I seem to have somewhat changed the colours when I worked on it yesterday. Pencil drawings are very unforgiving: once launched into a batch of colours, there is no going back. Oil painting is infinitely kinder.
So, three days on and I have not painted. It is all procrastination. In the studio, I can walk about, stand or sit to paint, and have place to put paintings when they are still wet; and I can just leave everything where it is until I come back to it. In the dressing room it is quite different - much smaller and nowhere to leave anything. It all has to be put away after use. It is going to be a long week! I am so spoiled...
Actually, now, I think I'll stop writing and get some painting done. Around four or five a.m. I had an idea so I'll see if that works. Aha! just realised an advantage in painting in the dressing room: I don't need to go downstairs, get shoes and coat on, cross the yard and go into the studio. I'm already in the dressing room and just have to move the keyboard to one side, start up the music and deploy the painting stuff. It is always a good idea to find the positives.
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