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billyturnip

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I've noticed from here on the forum and peoples personal websites a lot of you have dedicated studio's/work areas.
Does anyone else besides me have to make do with the dining room table?
Would it be a benefit to my painting skills to throw one of my kids out and turn their bedroom into a studio?


Roger

Please don't inform social services of my evil intentions I'm only joking :lol:
 
Rodger,
I should take a picture, I have exactly the same arrangement! The end of the dinning room table. My thoughts often turn to one of the young-uns leaving for school so I can comandier a room for my own personal benefit!!!!! Don't feel bad........ ;)

Jay H.
OKC
 
Roger, I work on a coffee table as I have to share the study with my wife. Suppose thats the problem with us both studying. I dream of the day when i can have my own modelling room, but that would also mean giving SWMBO a music room too. :eek:

Ross :)
 
I started this hobby on the kitchen table and progressed toward an unused walk-in closet. Gradually over the years I have even had a seperate building that was just for figures and all the related goodies that go with the hobby. I now have a room at the back of the house with windows around 3 sides and spend each day here. Long ago were those dreams of having my own room...........keep dreaming..........they come true. It seems like we all have to pay our dues and start out at the kitchen/dinning room table.

When my daughter got married I had shelving lumber and book cases in the garage before she got the chance to move out to her new life. All those years of dreaming and planning came to be.

Here is the link to a thread KeithP started a couple of years ago on the planet:

Planet Member's Work Areas
 
My computer desk has disappeared under a layer of kit parts, modelling materials etc. My keyboard looks like a Jackson Pollock painting !!!
 
Hi Roger

When I came back to figure painting about 18 years ago I started out on a small collapsible table (which did just that more than once). We were living in a place the size of a large dog-kennel at that time so that was the only option. Six house moves later I now have a large timber workshop/studio at the bottom of the garden. Upside - power, heat, light and comparative privacy - downside 60 feet from the back door so on those cold winter nights it's a real wrench sometimes to get myself down there.

The dining room table does have it's attractions :lol:

Cheers

Phil
 
I use a desk that's in our TV room. Because it's a "public" space, I don't like it to be crowded with models, paints, tools, etc., so I literally unpack and pack what I need when I sit down to work on figures. It's a pain in the neck, but it does force me to stay neat and organized.
 
Roger - I'm in the same boat. Except that I dont even have the kitchen table. I get out what I need and push my mouse and keyboard to the side and use my office desk. then have to clean it right back up again when I am done. Would love to have a dedicated work space. Someday it will happen.
 
Yeah, that sounds like me. I work away for a month and then get a months leave. When I get home for my month off I unpack my modelling/painting stuff onto the table. Clearing it away for the evening meal and then getting it back out again for the evening painting session.
It's a bit of a pain but if I didn't enjoy I wouldn't do it.

Roger.
 
Originally posted by billyturnip@Apr 7 2006, 08:24 AM
Jay, did you do the stuff in your gallery and V Bench on the dining room table?Gosh, I can't use that as an excuse anymore
Roger,
first of all I must say thanks for the compliment! Secondly, I suppose it's not where you do it, but how you do it! :lol:

I am lucky in one respect. My VERY understanding wife lets me leave my pile-O-stuff out until we absolutely have to put it up (you know, when company is coming or something like that). So I don't have to constantly move it. That, I think, helps allot! As my friend Guy keeps telling me, "all in good time...." I hope he's right!

Jay H.
OKC
 
I think my wife lets me get away with because she knows I'll be going away for another month to sea and the house becomes her own again.

"I suppose it's not where you do it, but how you do it!"

And who with :lol:

Roger.
 

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