I was reading Sharon’s blog yesterday and looked at her table all nicely covered in a light red paper. I think the technical term is red rosin paper. She talks about being able to use the paper after she slops paint on it (well that’s my term for it) in other art projects.
You know how you do…you're painting a background, and the brush just keeps going off the edge and then you have blue on your table…whoops!
Well, what I’d been using was a huge piece of plastic, maybe a drop cloth. It looked really bad, because it didn’t fit. I didn’t want to cut it. Just would move it around as the main spot would get too full of paint.
But as I’m back to organizing & cleaning & throwing away stuff yesterday, what do I find? A partial roll of the red paper!! Of coarse it looked familiar…we had used it last year when we put down a new floor in the guest room!
So, while I don’t have a before, ( and I won’t have any in the days to come, it disturbs me to take befores, I think!)…Here is the after of my painting table:
Yeah, I know the rest looks very messy behind there. But you should have seen it before! It really is better! And I still have more to do.
And I have been spending more time on the main work table. Himself built me another small shelf today for the second shelf of the table. That’s a big help for putting layers of things on. We mixed media folks sure love our layers, don’t we?!
Now if I could just figure out how to organize all my tons of papers. I seem to have different systems going and papers scattered everywhere and then I don’t know where everything is.
AH well,if anyone has any hints on that, let me know.
Ever onward, my arty friends.
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I think your work area looks great - I need to organize my work space again too!
It's funny how that keeps happening...seems we should only have to organize once and never again!
This is the paper that Lynne Perrella used in the workshop that I just took. If you gesso it first, you can paint over it and it takes on the best feel -- almost like leather! Talk about a multi-purpose paper!
Isn't it wonderful. Your table looks so inviting and the rest looks good too. Thanks for the shout out.
You are most welcome! And I've made some more progress since then. I'll get there. But I keep stopping to "play ART"!
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