I've set up a few work spaces in the garage room. Here is my new computer. I have
transferred my novel into the WORD program and have made a few revisions. This after a hair raising morning of trying to enter the word processing software and register it which for some reason took me many phone calls to
Hewlit Packard and Microsoft. But at last it is done.
I probably shouldn't admit this but when I first got the machine I couldn't open it. The first bevy of hair raising phone calls to HP ensued. No one could help me. At last I persuaded my house mate to look the situation over and discovered I'd been trying to open it from the back!!!!!
I also set up my aluminum folding table and laid out my watercolors and pastels. One corner also holds my manuscript pages.
The French easel my house mate bought for me on
Ebay. I have not yet used it. I couldn't set it up and had to ask my neighbor to come over and help me.
At any rate I am set up and ready to create. I was so tired after entering in a few novel revisions that I had to rest and spend some time squishing Play
Doh.
An unusual ladder that converts into a chair holds a few art books and blank notebooks. This chair/ladder belongs to my roommate. Recently I sorted through all my "Art Room" boxes in the storage unit and saved out only a minimum of supplies. The rest I either gave away or restored to the unit.
I stretched and gessoed two small canvases yesterday. I've never used this french easel which my roommate bought for me last winter so I look forward to giving it a try. I have NEVER owned an easel. In the past I propped my canvases on a chair seat to paint.
My landlords left this ironing board hanging in the room I use for a studio. I had been resenting its presence until I read--in Living the Creative Life-- the idea of using an ironing board as an art work table. I can adjust the height which is great. Now I love the ironing board. Funny how my opinion of things change and reverse.
Inspired by the chapter on journals in Living the Creative Life I began doing self-portraits in my new journal. This is done in Pentel markers with a water color wash. I looked even more grim before I changed the mouth.
