Art Every Day Month – Day 2

It was a great day!  Because of committing to doing art every day this month in Creative Every Day’s challenge for the month of November (the Art Every Day Month ), I had a focus today and a purpose.  I knew I had to get down to the studio to paint or do something creative, so setting my priorities was easy.  Yesterday I had selected what I was going to start painting today, so there was no delay.

I did do a big reorganize on Sunday, and today I spent the first half hour in my studio, finishing putting away a few things and then vacuuming the carpet. It feels so different now that I have consistent storage units and it feels like the room is so much bigger.  Amazing really.  Here is what it looks like now:

Overall view of room

 Close-up of my desk

New storage units

I will say that I am sure that I will continue to refine where things go, and the corner in the upper right of the first photo will change when my husband has time to build an “L” extension of the left-hand side of the desk to the corner of the room.  The storage shelf that is there now will be moved out to the area where I will eventually begin to do some fused glass again.  Hooray!

I did actually start a new painting, which I will continue tomorrow.  It was from a photo I took when I spent the day with a friend of mine from a small town north of Pittsburgh.  She showed me around to all the beautiful places near her, and though it was a rainy day, I got to take some lovely photos at least.

Below you can see in the first image, the photo of what I am using as a guide to this watercolor painting.  As you can see, the painting itself is only just a beginning, but the tree trunk is starting to actually look like a tree trunk!  Click on the image and it will enlarge so you can see it more clearly.

The second image above shows the painting with my messy watercolor paint palette next to it, and my jar of paintbrushes behind it.

That’s about all today – it is time to get dinner started, so I’ll end here.  Tomorrow you will see some progress on the painting, though my blog post may be kind of late, since I teach my last stained glass class for the semester tomorrow evening, and I won’t get home until after 10 pm.

If you do any kind of creative activities, why don’t you consider joining me in this lovely challenge?  I’d love to share it with you!

Creatively Yours In Spirit,

Arlene

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