Pop goes the easel
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006Yes, that pun is definitely too awful to be allowed. But it’s my blog and I’ll pun if I want to.
Anyway, next year (my sophomore year) I’ll be living in a single–no roommate. I haven’t actually seen the room yet, but that hasn’t stopped me from trying out furniture arrangements in my head. It dawned on me the other day, though, that if I do things right and squish a little bit, I could probably fit an easel in my room, enabling me to paint whenever I want (well, more or less). And with about three seconds and the Dick Blick catalog, I found the easel I want. It’s reasonably priced, looks fairly steady, and folds flat–sounds like a dorm room winner to me.
Of course, the real space-eater when it comes to art isn’t the easel so much as the materials, the canvases, the sketchbooks, the still life set-ups, etc. But I’m confident that I can keep that under control or else just learn to tolerate it, because being able to paint at school would be heaven on earth. Huzzah!
In other news, I’ve sketched out an 8×10″ line drawing of my next Lucy painting (from a sweet photo that my brother took). I hope to get it transferred to canvas and at least begun over Easter break, but since I have two other projects (calligraphy and math) and a mere five days off, that may or may not actually happen. We’ll see. If I don’t get to it over Easter, summer vacation is only a month away. Either way, I’m thinking it’ll be the same size as the Red Lucy (20×24″), but orientated portrait-wise, rather than landscape. And perhaps a nice green background to contrast with that bit of red in her collar and the warm tones in her fur. Should be fun, and perhaps I can induce myself to try and sell this one.
