Studio Tour- Brief
I work in the basement of our townhome My table is positioned right under the window to get the most natural light possible. It's a pretty spacious room and allows me to do laundry, paint and monitor the Pud's activities in a complete package. It also has a nice green view and is beautiful when the rose bush is in bloom or I can open the window for a nice breeze.
One of my favorite things to do is look at homes for sale in our neighborhood. I dream about the day we can set down more permanent roots and I always look for the perfect little studio space. One day, I wish for a room with lots of light, windows you can open, billowing curtains, ample storage space, cool stained glass lamps, hanging lanterns, twinkling white lights- you know, just enough quirky things to make it my space, mine-all mine.
As far as my favorite tool goes...I thought long and hard about this. I love my paints, palette and my brushes (which are both several years old, I'm attached) but the one tool I love the most is my mechanical pencil. It is from there that my ideas come to life. I think I enjoy that part the most, the getting the lines on the paper and feeling the creative juices start to flow.
The one thing I need to improve is my inking pen. Does anyone have any good suggestions for that?
4 Comments:
Lucky!! What a view!
I use Pigma Micron usually size 01. But I've found if your paper isn't nice and smooth it's not much fun. The paper and pen combination is very important. Try them out in the store if you can.
I agree with Frizz about the Micron. My Micron pens hate me because I put them on gessoed paper. I've had a little bit of luck with the Uniball Vision Elite, Faber-Castell PITT artist pen (variety of styles), and the ZIG memory systeme 5mm Ball with Archival ink.
Was that recommendation overload? It's really going to depend on the line you're going for, and like Frizz said, the surface you're using. :D
Oh, and I have that same dream studio! I've lucked out b/c I get a spare room...but I dream of a loft like space overlooking an orchard with billowy curtains and all that cool stuff you described! Maybe we'll have a "Four Corners" topic where we all post the four walls we create in and maybe a sketch of what we WISHED the space was like! oooh...fun!
Oh man, your dream studio sounds so dreamy! Billow curtains! Ahh, I love billowy curtains!
Have you ever tried a dip pen and ink? Messy, and hard to get used to, but a dear love of mine.
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