My Art Studios!

Back home, back to work, back to some sense of 'normalcy". Work is busy, demanding as always. Nothing of interest or peculiar to write about. Just the same old routine. Boring meeting, phone calls, emails etc. 

I feel super exhausted and burned out. There was so much added stress this past week! but, in spite of how tired I was, I spent every evening putting time and effort to organize my oil painting studio at home. Which I more or less finished it last night. 

Still lots of things to clean up, magazines and art materials to bring to the other studio, but it’s pretty much done. My heart feels full. I realized that this is what I always wanted, an oil painting studio, to paint like the Masters! For the record, for future references, here are some photos of before- and after: 

                                                             HOME ART STUDIO BEFORE

                                                          HOME ART STUDIO NOW!! 

Interesting that after renting a studio space and moving to this other apartment two years ago, and having a lot more space, I was still working in a cluttered, disorganized environment, just like I did in the previous smaller apartment. I only had one small room for art,  which I used for everything! later thanks to covid I had to shrink it, and add a home -office,  and I had even less space. I remembered how frustrated and unhappy I was almost gave up on painting! 

Here are some photos for me to look back:

Painting with oils forced me to reorganize. I realized that when you work with oils, you can’t have paper and other types of media around. It gets too messy and chaotic. Also, due to the toxic fumes it requires more cleaning and maintenance. I really needed to dedicate a space exclusively to oil painting. 

I’ve now successfully created four separate workspaces: 

At home: One space for oil painting only and a drawing/sketching station I set up next to my home-office area. 

Workspace Artist Studio: Divided the studio in two, one area for collaging and another for painting with acrylics. And I have plenty of room for both. 

I reached one milestone goal for 2026. Now moving on to the next steps: continue working on both painting series; continue working on comic drawing; start the paper collage project, and plan for  AI video animation. Update website and join more art shows.