Painting and more supplies and more....

Here's a better picture of the painting again.

And below is some of the pictures I wanted to have in my post about where I work for the Where Bloggers Create, but I had those issues that didn't let me upload them...  And now, after my dearest husband gave my computer a good talk, slap on the backside and almost tossed it out the window, it started to work

Holy macaroons, is this ever exciting!!!

{but now I'm afraid to close my computer, maybe it only works right now because he's home...}

Any hoooo, this is the pictures of how or where I store my supplies

and display others

I love old vintage or antique suitcases 

and not that I'm either vintage or antique {yet} but the wicker case you see on the left hand side is from when I went to art school, love it but it was the worst thing ever to carry art supplies in during my travels between home and down town.

See I lived in the country south of Stockholm {were the school was}, so first I had to walk for 45 min to the train station, then the train ride took close to an hour, then I had to fight through crowds in the Central station to catch the subway to get to the other end of the city and then again walk about 25 min.

I don't mind to travel or walk {if anything I love it}, but this poor wicker suitcase sure took a beating after just 3 weeks of being not only stuffed silly with every drawing and painting tools thinkable and being squashed between other commuters...  So now it holds some of my older work.

  

Supplies, if I only worked in one or two kinds of mediums, I guess my work space would be less packed full

But I paint {acrylics, water colours, oils and ink}

I also do drawing, illustrating, sew, make my own stamps and I do crafts with my daughter.

On top of it I like to do photography, mail art and just try out new things.

I love different textures, fabrics, glass, paper, natural things like bark, rocks, wood and the list goes on.

I also love to collect antique and vintage books and fabric, plus I really like washi tape {Japanese paper tape}...  Well any how, this is how I store and display some of those things.

I like to rotate things from time to time, but I cant stand it when I have too much around and showing.  

But I'm by no definition {or that I see my self as} a tidy or well organized person.

I make really big mess when I work and I love it!

Huge thank you again for all the wonderful visitors and comments you have left.

I'm back on line again and lets hope this time it actually will work.    

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The missing picture from my last post

Not sure what happen to my last post, the picture (my travel kit) got lost, so here it is and just for fun here is my other one too (below, the heavy one and in this picture my larger sketch book is missing).

I still stuff this in my car for the just in case I can bring it out, lets say a nice cafe I just happen to find along the road or the farmers field I just cant pass by.

Either one is heavy in the end, as my bag is made of leather and I also have my camera in there, my rolling pharmacy (my husband think I have everything but the kitchen sink in there) and other little bits and bobs, water bottle and my mobile...  Hmmmm, that sounds like a lot!

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Testing colours & moving things around...

We went from winter to full summer with in a week, didn't have much of spring at all. 8 days ago I was in Toronto and it was cold and when I got home our chestnut tree had only big buds on it. And today the buds are wide open with flowers and the leaves are close to 8 inches long. So summer came with a boom and it has been insanely hot for this time of the year. 

Small acrylic painting

Between working on a few commission pieces and for the upcoming show,

I'm doing some small paintings for the heck of it, testing colours really.

 And I also have been reading posts of blogs I'm following and many artist bloggers are talking about their travel art kits right now, not only do I find this fascinating but also fun as I get to see what and how they are able to cram all that stuff in to their bags. 

Made me think about what I had in Toronto last time.   

I brought both my watercolour cases, but ended up with the small one in my bag as the other one is far to heavy (which sucks as they are my favourite).  But this is what I had last time, and the sketch in the book is of old houses in the Queen St West neighbourhood... 

I love old houses and the turquoise one of course stood out to me.

 

And I have been having to move things around in my studio again and add a bench in there, its for my daughter and when she's not feeling well.  She loves to hang in there with me and when she cant paint then she likes to lie down and sleep, sadly it has been a lot of that again for her.  But I'm just glad I have been able to make the room for her to be comfortable in there.

And its kind of neat place to sit down and read, sip tea and or blogging.

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