Spring Cleaning (Part 2)

Well, it may not look like much but I did get my painting area organized. I cleared out over 150 paint cans and put their contents into plastic water bottles. Damn I had to drink a lot of water to get all those bottles empty. I sorted the paints by color. The ones you see in the image are all my acrylics (actually I have several more gallons to deal with).

I also was able to sort through all my other paint related objects and the studio is looking better. Actually it is really nice to be able to just come into the studio and go to work on a project and not on having to locate what I need first.

Will be working on the contents of the rest of the studio soon. I should start with my carving area and see how that goes.


This second photo is just another view of my paint area where I actually do my thing with these paints. As you may be able to see from the second image, I work with quite a few brushes. I have brushes for...

1. the acrylics and water based paints
2. a collection just for my watercolors
3. another collection for the oil based paints
4. special brushes for doing varnishing
5. another collection for lacquer work
6. more brushes for furniture and antique restoration
7. brushes especially designed for lettering my signs and stripping
8. and brushes for whatever else comes along.

Just shows what a monster I have created with decades of working with various paints and wood finishes. I certainly hope that they don't decide to rebel some evening because I will be way out numbered.

This last image is of one of my carving wood stashes. I have also been squirreling carving wood for decades. And to think that it wasn't that many years ago that all this was neatly stored in my school bus where I lived, worked, and traveled the country.