Cleaning the Studio

As I have mentioned before I am a messy creator... but this past Saturday I told myself I MUST clean my studio. It was the goal for the morning, and if I hurried I would have time to create in the afternoon. So I started cleaning......

And pretty soon I came across this piece of messy paper that I had layered with ink, and teabags and paint, and I remembered that I was going to try transfering some images onto small pieces of it. So sidetracked I became...

I had already printed off the little image of trees I had photographed,

and the whimsical bird I had drawn. And so I transferred them.... they didn't turn out quite like I had planned, but the idea has potential for the future..... and I enjoyed my morning much more than I thought I was going to.

P.S. The studio got cleaned in the afternoon.

P.P.S It is already messy again!

Happiness in a Messy Studio

This may look messy - but to me it looks happy - it is a place where I am busy and creating.

And, if you look closely among the mess you will see the makings of some little books - the glue is drying, and the wax coating the covers them is waiting to be polished up before the pages are sewn inside.

In another corner a number of bezels are waiting to be filled with images and beads and resin. These are just in the looking stage - nothing has been glued down - I look and ponder for a while before the final picture is chosen and glued down and filled with resin.

And then there is a basket of paintings waiting to be packaged.

If my studio looks like this, it usually means it has been a day of cleaning and not creating - and then my studio is not such a happy place.