Where I Stand Sunday

This is a photo I have used before..still reorganizing the studio but getting to the good parts where I can spread my art magazines and source photos out and sort through them. An artist always needs inspiration.  I hope to get all the way through the sorting before I am tempted to sit down with a paper or canvas because one of my photos caught my eye...that would be a welcome activity at this point - especially when it's so gray and dreary on the landscape.  We were supposed to get some major snow, but it hasn't arrived yet. It's very cold so making chili today, watching a little football..from time to time.  Today would have been Hasty Herman's 10th birthday.

Miss you little (BIG) dog!!
Where I Stand Sunday is an ongoing photo essay examining the different places I spend my life standing. Too often we take for granted the everyday places we spend our lives walking on.

Where I Stand Sunday

It's cold and snowy outside.  I have begun a huge job, that I have cut down into smaller jobs. The task is cleaning and reorganizing the studio.  I am not one to be very motivated when it comes to taking time away from production...but if you aren't organized - even just a little, time is wasted in spinning your wheels.

When I get started, I tend to go overboard.  I figure, well - while I am here...but I can't afford that time right now...so a quicker job than usual.  It does require some large pieces moved and I am also putting down rubber baseboard, around the finished walls. The joke here is - I was going to have this place so spiffy for my interview for the newspaper, and then the reporter came a week early. Oh well, such is life - in the country.

So far, this is all that is done...in my BIIIGGGG studio, but it's a beginning.  I needed a place to put the unshown artworks and frames in one spot. I condensed two shelving units worth of art magazines - that I rely on from time to time, for ideas and inspiration - into one unit.  Inspiration? - you say? These two wonderful sources help.  I think I have a book or magazine for every THING one needs inspiration on. 

"Cloth-Paper-Scissors - Studios" is out of print, but if once is resourceful, you can find a copy.  Somewhere I have another one that they published.   "American Artists - Studios" is still available.

More to come as it progresses.  In the middle of it all, I have a very tight schedule the rest of the month.  Stay tuned...