The Art Barn

I’m not really a country girl.  Actually, my husband prides himself and takes credit for me knowing the difference between a chicken and a rooster.  I was quite content with my own ill-fitting thoughts about foul.   If it squawked, it was a chicken.  But no, my husband stood his ground and corrected me every time I tried to get away with the “chicken” until I knew the difference.

Unlike me, Ron and Jay knew the difference between a goat and a dog.  They just preferred the pet goat, Lucille.  They loaded up Lucille in Jay’s convertible and drove her up and down the Las Vegas Strip with her ears flopping in the hot wind bahaha-ing at the tourists as they starred back in awe as if they had just witnessed an Elvis sighting.

I think I must have known way back then, that a barn wasn’t just a home for animals that I couldn’t properly identify.  I just had no clue what a wonderful space a barn could be, but Kitty did.  This is what she envisioned for her studio.

It's time for more eye candy. 

Art Barn





" I am blessed to have been able to churn part of my IRA/retirement money back into a free standing studio where I can paint alone or with friends and occasionally host workshops. The site is a former barn--hence the name "art barn" but it was purposefully re-sited so it now has large North Facing windows for that unwavering light. The ceilings are @ 15 feet high and my first inclination was to go wild with color on the walls. After consulting with artists in the family I went with a warm but bland vanilla that wouldn't alter the color on the canvas or paper. It was a choice also to put up paintings and drawings on the walls but to mainly let the color in the room come from the inspiration of the artists in the room--their vision, their canvas, their words. It was a good decision. Kitty"

 



Vertical files





Inside the Art Barn, Kitty stores

her files, pads of paper, canvases

vertically and open.

  

 



Vertical slots for storage

Open storage, pull out drawers for paints and flat papers.  Kitty stores her paints by color.


Part of the beauty of the Art Barn is found in the pure essence of the peacefulness and serenity of its' surroundings.  Where nothing but the whisper of the trees or the brightness of the rising sun or the familiar smell of moisture and dew should dare interupt the deepest urge to create.

Tip for the day:

 Keep doors off the fronts of shelves to see what is in your cabinets.  Install pull out drawers to have full access to supplies without having to get on your hands and knees.  Store what you can vertically.  Keep your paints sorted by color. 


Quote:

"What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself."

-Willa Cather-

Meet me here Thursday, we'll talk about space planning.