Spent the day with Jana and Inka rearranging my studio. It was Inkas idea because as she said “coming into your studio feels like I’m walking into my grandma’s house “. But in the end Inka spent most of the day on the couch watching Worlds Strictest Parents which is a show about sending off problem kids to live with strict authoritarian families in places like Texas and India. Anyway. Studio revamp is in process and taking far longer than I thought. I kind of build my studios as I work in them. Creating ridiculous contraptions to hold my brushes or thinner. Everything is built around me sitting or standing and painting. My palette has to be to the right. My source material to the left. I call my studio and easel my cockpit since I can access everything from one chair. I feel like these simple things can be extremely important for your artists to learn and get comfortable with. Iy’s kind of like holding a guitar. There’s a way your body wants to do it at first, and then a right way to do it that’s a bit awkward at first but you become accustomed to with time.
