![]() Try our Art Studio Framing Workshop, for picture framing, 3D art, object and memorabilia display, conservation and restoration, advice and consultation. Due to our longstanding relationship with art professionals and creative industries, we are ideally positioned at the heart of the artistic community.Ĭommissions have included, the presentation of an original work by artist David Gentleman to H.M. Wide experience of the fine art trade has labelled The Art Studio as a unique business in North Staffordshire. Our bespoke products and services cater for all needs and budgets ranging from museum standard framing to corporate, domestic and student lines. The Art Studio has established itself as a distinct local business, renown for its quality, attention to detail, creativity, variety and excellent customer service. #ARTSTUDIO BRUSHES FREE#We offer all our services under one roof and complete all work on site, with free customer parking in the centre of the historic market town, Newcastle-under-Lyme. Our Gallery in situated in The Barracks Workshops, an imposing redbrick Victorian building, formerly a base for the North Staffs Militia and Fire Service. Nothing ever looks bad, only my desk top.Established in 1973, The Art Studio remains a family-run picture framers, Art Gallery and suppliers of art and craft materials. We have similar old wooden boxes where I stand my brushes. My studio as a whole is always looking good, just as you set up your collections of ironstone with other pretty things to see and enjoy, that is what I do with all my collections, many ‘nature morte’ arrangements all around. ![]() I am happy to unload and others are happy for the free stuff to grab. YAY, all gone so far! Tomorrow there will be more to put out and will keep digging for more. I set some of it along our house planters. But about casting things away, I explored several carboard boxes hidden under a large table, and what a mix! Unsold things from past stoop sales, that are so out of style: clothing, china pieces, custom jewelry, shoes, perfumes etc. I won them with other art supplies from winning a contest using Grumbacher’s products. Doing so, I discovered a great collection of unused brushes, they must be worth quite a bit. Thanks to your last posts, I an digging into my belongings in my studio. NO MORE SETS! I need to only buy open stock, as I do my paints, so I don’t end up with a bunch of colors I don’t like and won’t use. This process showed me I needed a new rule when it came to pastels, colored pencils, etc. Maybe I’ll end up missing a couple of the colors, but I can replace those specifically if I ever really need them. ( HERE is a detailed post on cleaning pastels.) I feel much more inspired to use them now that I’ve weeded out the bright pinks and purples and even some blues and greens that I would never use in a landscape. I wipe each one down and gently vacuumed out the dust. ![]() I only kept the colors I was drawn to and felt like I would use. I got rid of about 80% of my pastels, which felt great. #ARTSTUDIO BRUSHES FULL#For someone who struggles with pastels, I sure had a lot of them! All three of my pastel drawers were packed full and there was overflow in a few small boxes, too. Cleaning out the drawers helped with that immensely! Instead of storing things I would likely never use, they now hold things I regularly use.Īnother thing I spent a lot of time on was the pastels. ![]() I spent a lot of time thinking through where all of the displaced items would go, so they could easily be found. I can pull on out when I want to sketch or paint one, but they certainly didn’t need to be out in the open. Some of the things I have sitting out, I don’t use at all!įor example, I ended up hanging the plaster casts in the back of the closet instead of having them sit out on the cart. Anything that falls in that category is just taking up valuable space or making it difficult to take stock of, find, and access the things I use most. I also have to be honest about what I don’t and never will use. In order to tackle the clutter, I needed to clean out the drawers to make much better use of them and be honest about what I use most and what really needs to be at-the-ready. ![]() Now, you have to understand that my mess-tolerance is pretty low, so a mess to me probably looks pretty normal to some people! But, I do like stuff and can let things get a little too cluttered. The former usually wins out and the studio ends up feeling messy to me as a result. I waffle between wanting to see all of my supplies, so I don’t forget them and because they are beautiful, and wanting to have completely clear surfaces. One of my goals when organizing the art studio was to greatly simplify the amount of stuff that’s sitting out in the open. ![]()
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