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Oh my word, I take my hat off to you for being so well organised. I have things on every table in the house. I have a big box for acrylics, a box for watercolours, one for pencils. Jars of brushes everywhere. There is stuff in the living room, the dinning room, the conservatory. I am learning watercolour, acrylic and sketching, so I have to have everything out and ready to use all the time. The sketch is something I'm messing around with that I'm going to try and paint
. It's far to ambitious for my skills but I'm giving it a go anyway. Even if I make a mess of it, I will learn from it. I think the flower you have done is very good.
. It's far to ambitious for my skills but I'm giving it a go anyway. Even if I make a mess of it, I will learn from it. I think the flower you have done is very good.
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There's no way I'm taking a picture of my workspace! It's a horror (besides that, the ceiling lights have stopped working..).
I try to tidy it up every once in a while, and get bored with the layout, so move all the cupboards and desk around too... not easy in a narrow room that has too much furniture!
Love your painting Alan. Somewhere, I have an old wooden box with my great grandad's oil paints (plus some of my grandmother's, who had the box after him). They're all in various stages of squished-ness. I can't imagine they'd be useable now, but I often come accross the box on a tidying-up / rearranging-room session and wonder what his oil paintings looked like and where they are now (if they exist). I've only ever seen a handful of his watercolours.
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Oil paints can last a VERY long time - I have some that must be 50 years old; I've still got them because they're colours I've not used for a long time, like Alizarin Crimson, Crimson Lake, of dubious lightfastness; and some mystery colours - labels fell off long ago, no idea what they are; sometimes use them for sketches - can give you quite a surprise when you squeeze them out: i.e. what the Hell was THAT? Tidiness - I really don't do tidiness - and probably wouldn't, even if I had a studio the size of an aircraft hangar.
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Well thanks Helen and Lew. I don’t often paint still life subjects, but this is a 4-stage WIP which will feature in an upcoming series of four articles in ‘The Artist’ magazine shortly.
This wasn’t staged in any way, it’s a small section of a long table in my studio, and I really enjoyed painting this one!
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Colin your painting is coming on well. I like the painting of your studio Alan, artwork of artwork it appeals to me.
Like a lot of people I’m limited for space, and fortunately don’t do very large painting. In the warmer , dry weather I work in my shed , as you can imagine it not the tidiest of places. Last year I set up a table purposely bought in the corner of the spare room. It’s not big but it’s warm and dry the work area is never really tidy just varying degrees of less scruffy, it’s jokingly referred to as the studio. I do get lot of pleasure from working there , and without it would not be able to paint as much as I do.
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Interesting reading about workspace! In Spain i used Part of my guest room as a studio. See below but now I am staying in my daughters annexe so no room for any dedicated workspace. When my house is ready after being 
renovated here in Orkney I am having a dedicated space but it will once again be set up in a guest room.
renovated here in Orkney I am having a dedicated space but it will once again be set up in a guest room. 
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Thought I'd post 
a couple of my work space images. I'm in rather a cramped space in one of our rooms - far from ideal! I've also posted a close-up which shows my current work in progress or should I say no progress. It's probably the hardest portrait I've ever attempted. Firstly, because I only have a bad photo to go by and secondly it poses huge 'hair' challenges. Hence the Covid excuse to self has paralysed me but this week I'm determined so watch this space ...!
a couple of my work space images. I'm in rather a cramped space in one of our rooms - far from ideal! I've also posted a close-up which shows my current work in progress or should I say no progress. It's probably the hardest portrait I've ever attempted. Firstly, because I only have a bad photo to go by and secondly it poses huge 'hair' challenges. Hence the Covid excuse to self has paralysed me but this week I'm determined so watch this space ...!
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