Head Down

Well I've been travelling again, this time to go back to the UK to see family and attend two fabulous weddings. It was all a bit of a whirlwind as usual and it's nice to be back with a renewed sense of motivation. I have been getting my head down to try and get through my very long to do list and have some exciting things on the horizon which I will be posting about soon.

Today I set about trying to bring to completion a few paintings I have on the go. They aren't quite there yet but hopefully a few more tweaks tomorrow I will get them done.  Here is the third painting from flower series that I posted about below:

"Into the Deep Blue Bloom" 8x8, oil on board

Home Studio

Now that we have moved, I have been working on getting a little home studio set up. It's getting there but I'm sharing the room with a load of boxes at the moment, things that we are putting off unpacking until after we complete the renovations so it's kind of cramped. However, its working well for small scale paintings like these four little ones I started on. I'll post a finished update in a few days.

Hello London!

Wow what a month I've had, in fact make that 3 months. It's funny how life can suddenly turn completely upside down! My husband has a new job which means we had to leave New York for the summer and so we have temporarily relocated to London and with all the chaos I haven't been able to do much painting. Unfortunately, I've had to put certain things on hold, like my Parsons course as well as turn down a couple of amazing opportunities that were offered to me just as we were leaving. However, there's always a silver lining and having just spent an amazing 2 and a half weeks in Thailand, we are now happily settled in a small flat in central london which is beautifully sunny and SO quiet - quite a contrast to Manhattan. I am loving that it's flooded in natural light which is quite a novelty and our living room window looks out over beautiful gardens and tennis courts, very zen. 

As you can see from the photo below, I no longer have the luxury of a spare bedroom to work out of so I've set up studio in a corner of our living room, thank goodness for the dry-cleaning bags, they have once again saved the day (and hopefully the all the landlords white furniture!). Hopefully my husband won't mind living with this mess all summer - then again, it was him who put us here! 

I am trying to finish the painting on the easel before returning to NY for 3 days next week as I'm hoping to take it with me to offer for sale at Decor Art Gallery in Gramercy who recently sold 2 of my seascapes "Tides #1&2". Better get back to work!

New "Studio"

More Dry Cleaning Bags

I have found yet another use for all our dry-cleaning bags!  I have been struggling to find places to put my wet oil paintings as they take so long to dry and in the mean time I want to get on with other things so I can't leave them on my easel. I also can't put them on the floor as I paint the edges of the canvas and so resting them on anything means the paint transfers from that edge. So, today I covered one of the walls of the studio in carefully opened up and stuck together dry cleaning bags to protect the wall. Then I hammered in a row of nails to act as hooks and voila - my very own (very cheap!) drying rack. Luckily, I happen to have double height ceilings in this room so it's very satisfying to finally make use of all the wall space.  Now all I need is a ladder...