Works on Paper, Touring Art Studio, Set Up.

Works on Paper, Touring Art Studio, Set Up. 01/25/2010

We moved into a large onsite van with seven attached rooms, and began renovating it, last summer. This is not our main home, our main home is our Eco-tourer caravan and out troop carrier, Toyota, land cruiser work mate, car, I refer to as ‘troopy’.

I needed this summer home to have room to store my lifetime supply of art materials, left over from the art supply shop we had connected to our Buninyong Gallery.

Each year we return in the springtime and I am able to top up my traveling supplies from the store and enjoy the freedom of spreading myself for a while.

I am packing my 2010 art supplies into the car, now, and we went looking at fridges and freezers that we could use in the car as additional food storage, but would not take up too much of my art supply space. We found a chest fridge that runs on 12 volt, from the car or 240 volt, it’s big enough for the fresh vegetables but it will not take up too much of the studio space I need, inside the car and the flat top will be handy, It can double as a seat. Always handy to have things serve two roles, when you pack for a long tour.

I always compare prices on line these days and look for the best shopping deals as it pays to compare shopping prices.

I will never have to shop again for watercolour papers. I have more left over from the art supply shop, we closed, than I could use in three lifetimes at the rate I am going now. I am beginning to use the textured acid free watercolor papers for my pastel sketches and I will pack some acrylic paints this year and try these out on the papers too.

I tend to vary what medium I take away with me on tour, each year. Some years it is oils, others watercolors, and this year, based on my enormous stack of artist, quality watercolor paper, I think I will do ‘works on paper'.

I have bought some of those office paper, storage systems at Big W; they hold A4 size paper and will be great for storing 9” x 12” paintings while they dry. They were $20. each. I bought 5 of them. I hope to have the opportunity to paint prolifically this trip and I don’t want, the not knowing where to store part wet art works, to slow down my enthusiasm.
Now, when I do travel with oil paint that stays wet for weeks, I will have an adequate storage system for my on site paintings, as we travel.

Artists are always wondering how to transport wet paintings and the narrow draws, made for scrap booking and office papers in lightweight plastic storage containers are ideal for this job, 'see photos'.

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