Monday, June 6, 2011

#346...my easel wall

One wall of our loft space is very long and windowless. It serves as a screening wall for our projection TV. Part of the blank wall, directly across from the bed (see it here) is my painting corner. I hang my canvases directly onto the wall, which serves as my easel. This part of the loft is cluttered, and a little lackluster, so this weekend I decided to clean it and make my painting area  more of a focal point for the corner. Here is my painting area before....
I reoriented our workout stuff to other areas of the loft, and hung a bunch of large scale artwork around my paint area to frame it. Here it is after.......
My paint supplies were a bit unruly.....
before
So, I decided to house them in this wheelie cabinet that I made over a while back.
after






The artwork consists of a few pieces that my sister Sarah did during art school, a vintage fabric fish panel that I stretched onto foam board, a few abstract paintings by me, and a blown up photo of a Ferris wheel that I took at the beach last summer.

2 comments:

sweetcheese said...

Hi-I've been enjoying your lovely blog for a little while now, but I don't know that I've seen those great yellow chairs before. Where did you get them? I'm crossing my fingers that they aren't vintage or OOAK...

Christie Chase said...

Hi,
The chairs are actually vintage, which I had recovered in yellow burlap. You can find similar on ebay at...

http://cgi.ebay.com/4-swivel-dining-game-tulip-chairs-rolls-Palm-Beach-/220693278162?pt=US_Chairs&hash=item3362582dd2

and also Ikea sells something similar...

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10074590

hope that helps a little : )