MY STUDIO

I work not in the garret, but rather in the former dining room. I have always known that it is important to stay close to food, if one wants to avoid becoming a starving artist. I have a drawing board, a computer, a business desk, two large flat files full of drawings, paper, & boards, three crammed bookcases, three filing cabinets, two office chairs, a taboret, and 4 chests of drawers for art supplies, tools, slides, photographic equipment, tearsheets, color sketches, and craft supplies. My studio/office is also the repository of any item I don't want the children to get at, including toys on time-outs. There is also an artograph for enlarging, modeling weapons, and a mat cutter in the basement, and costumes upstairs. Just to prove my frugality, much of my equipment is two decades old, and I still have a tube or more of oil paint from my college days – while admitting there are some colors I just don't use very much! I have a particular friend who has exhorted me to refrain from the use of yellow for many years, so perhaps I am under her influence.

In the background can be seen evidence of some of my passions other than art: Sailing boats, frogs, and squeezed in along with everything else, a lampworker's torch, kiln, and glass rods for making beads.