Deep-cleaning the Studio, Part 2

I've been away from the easel for the past several months on a self-directed quilting sabbatical. Now that it's 2016, I'm back into painting mode. I have a big exhibition coming up this fall, so I needed to get my painting space back in order. Read part 1 here.

First up, cleaning the shelf units that hold up my worktables.

A dust-free place for everything.

Index cards, indexed by type AND size. It's who I am.

In transition, taking the workspace apart...

Ready for the nasty dust pics? Here they come.

ULHH.

FLUULLGH.

GUUUUUHH.

But things got all better.

Aaahh.

Ready to work at my workspace.

Let's do some painting!

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Deep-cleaning the Studio, Part 1

It's a new year! And I've got a lot to work on in 2016. Time to properly clean the studio. Mostly that means dusting. But I'd also like to reduce the general visual clutter in here. Smooth out the lines, if you will. Quiet environment, quiet mind.

That little sign says "Bad painting is better than no painting at all."

Does anything collect dust quite like books? Oh, yeah, wooden bookshelves do.

For the first time, I've organized my books by size rather than subject. Smoothing out the lines. However subjects are still organized by shelf.

Genre fiction, skewed toward science fiction & fantasy, plus books I loved as a kid. Bingo & Yahtzee are here too.

General fiction, poetry, essays & memoirs, travel, reference. Yes I put Ready Player One in general fiction and not with the sci-fi. Don't judge.

Graphic arts, a brief stop in Southwest American & Spanish Colonial art, on to Modern & Contemporary.

Quiet bookshelf, quiet active mind. Ahh.

Now on to things like ...this.

See how it all turned out.