Don’t you just love before and after makeover photos? I’m a sucker for all the makeover TV shows and hair salon magazines showing ordinary people being transformed with just a new haircut (and new makeup, special lighting, and soft focus lenses, of course). We like the ‘after’ photos because we’ve seen the ‘before’ pictures. So […]
Studio Matters
Create an ideal studio in 30 days – a Studio Makeover Challenge
Do you love looking at artists’ studios? Is yours in need of help? As a fledgling artist, I’d spend hours drawing floor plans for my ideal studio. It would be on the side of a mountain, with a wall of windows overlooking a lake. It would be modern, clean, uncluttered with high ceilings, loads of […]
A Tuscan style studio view
Homes in New Mexico have Canales instead of downspout gutters. These are basically just holes with a metal u-shaped lip where the water pours off the house in a torrent on the few days a year when we get rain – usually in the form of flash flooding. This all began in trying to address […]
My Studio Views
My studio is a great place to be. Although I once had a rather large space with high ceilings and french doors, my current studio is our two-car garage. A great space which, after insulating the door, is also a comfortable one. I recently traveled to Israel for a month of volunteer service at the […]