I forgot to take a "before" photo of the studio, but this was the basic workplace, with the 7 foot black shelve, but with some shelves/storage where the monitor/computer are currently:
I didn't have the wonderful bottom shelf full of my paper stock, the computer tower and scanner hogged that area, and the middle had the monitor and printer. Functional for the space/furniture I had at my disposal, but not the best layout for a smooth workflow.
But now! Now I have "workstations" fleshed out a bit better...well, maybe they're more like "storage stations" but I'm able to reach most of my frequent needs with my awesome little rolling chair. My monitor now sits on a stack of milk crates that serve as storage for the magazines for decoupage items, office-related and research books (like thesarus & spanish dictionary.) A wonderful friend, Red Marie, gave me an acrylic display that now houses my folders, adhesives, varnishes and other items...along with being the base for my Tower of Awesomeness. White drawer with more fun toys (tools that aren't the garage hardware, that's in the kitchen.) with the many tiny drawers that hold the found objects for my Florid Findings and other dimensional projects.
I also have a large brown box housing my matt board drops, a large white drawer holding a TON of random things...very random. You'll find out HOW random in the next post when I show you what I pulled out to make a freeze ray gun. I saved that space to store my finished work, sketches, and random materials. I like that corner now...kinda hated it before today.
The shelf/storage that used to be next to my desk was moved to the far wall, still houses the same materials, but I'm able to keep the books I plan on using in art (not to read, really) on the bottom with my books on various artists in the larger shelf above. Next is the new combined shelving for the novels and Novel Shelf #2 with Mr Smith peeking over the silk and dried flowers.
And then we have the final studio wall with Novel Shelf #1, flanked by storage for spray paint, printer ink, random stuff, my sewing kit, and more random stuff.
Storage is god in this studio. Well, random stuff is god, storage is the church.
Now I can bring my easel in, or spread a million fascinators on the floorspace, or stop accidentally buying supplies for a second or third time cause I lost the can of fixative (though you can't have too much of that stuff.)
Thanks for flicking through my studio! See you with the process photos of the freeze ray gun for my brother in law's Halloween costume and my Day of the Dead mask.
