For the last year the second room in our home has been anything but an art room. I sometimes call it my office, and rarely say art room. It has housed guests, myself for 3 months while my sister visited, and basically acted as a storage room for anything and everything. 99.9% of my creating happened at the kitchen table. The past week I have been slowly decluttering, donating, trashing, and cleaning the "office", which I can now call my art room. For real.
I am pleased with almost everything. The other half of the room is the computer desk, and futon. I wish I could get rid of the futon but I know the second I do, I would regret it. We are keeping it for now, for guests, just in case we have company to stay overnight, or long distance visitors.
The 'bulletin' board in the middle is actually an old dry erase board covered in velvet fabric that came from my aunt's fabric stash. The table in the corner is going to be dedicated to sewing...and I'm sure a shelf for other things while I work. The dark table was once on our balcony, then in the dining room, and now my new work station. It's a good height for me because I get a sore back easily from working and looking downward...so the higher table will be good for my back.
I feel really good now that everything is in its' place and organized.
Check out my watercolor stash in the above photo. This was all given to me by my grandma, pictured below with her older sister. The blue board has some history to it. The fabric came from my aunt, the photo of my grandma, and the spoon is a baby spoon my great grandma gave me when I was a baby. It has a tin that it goes in, with my name engraved on it. I definitely get my creativeness from the women in my family, so I wanted to honor them in my room.
In celebration of the new year, I would like to give away a set of these watercolor paints to a reader. I am going to start a watercolor journal this weekend with my paints, pull out an old palette and get back to my true self.
To enter to win the 8 tubes of paint above, leave a comment. Tell me your first memory of making something, who you get your talents from, or what you would do with the paints. For extra entries you can tweet about this, or blog about the giveaway, just leave me a link! Make sure to leave your email so I can contact the winner. The winner will be chosen in 1 week, so you have until Jan 13th at midnight to enter!
Happy Weekend :)
16 comments:
Oh my, those paints look lovely.
First of all.......I get my artistic leanings from my Mom, and before that, actually MOSTLY, from Grammy. She painted with oils for quite a few years, and did quite an amazing job of it too.
First memory....hmmm....drawing womens profiles/faces with pencil and crayon or really any sort of drawing device I could get my hands on....
What would I do with those paints?
I'd use them to paint on the canvases my awesome brother makes. ;) Probably some quotes...random stuff like that. Flowers...
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ok i would like to paint the acorns my daughter collected! or have her do it!!! together is better
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Love your new organized space! You don't have to enter me in your drawing (cause I can't paint for doo doo) but the first thing I ever remember making was a pinata! I was in the 2nd grade =)
I really like your new creating space!! It's so cute.
I wanted to comment but I can't really paint either! Don't enter me so that someone who paints can win! :)
my best friend is an elementary school art teacher and she just bought her first house, we are turning the extra room in the house into a studio for all of us to use so these would definitely come in handy this spring and summer when we have it all set up and start painting! we actually met in high school art class and have just recently reconnected in the last few years, art is a really big part of our bond and really important to us
oh, jess! this room is beautiful! it's so great that you'll have a place dedicated to creating. it looks like such an inspiring place.
as for my first creative memory. hmm...well, one that's been retold so much that's implanted in my mind is that of me, at about age 2, very carefully dotting a paper with a green crayon. when my mom asked me what i was doing, i said, 'drawin' broccoli dots.' (ya know, the little tiny pieces of broccoli) i kinda remember sitting at my high chair while doing this. it proves that my love/notice for the small things, the pieces of a whole, started early.
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Love the colors in your artroom- so beautiful.
All my creativity definitely comes from the women in my family as well. The guys just don't have it, except for my oldest son- poor kid is just like his mother (not cool when you're eleven)
I would so love some paints as I am trying to exercise the painting muscle myself. Have a wonderful new year.
I love your art room! It looks organized and inspiring. Your Du Buh Du doll looks beautiful on the wall, I've wanted one ever since coming across her Etsy Shop a couple years ago{{you lucky girl!!}}. What a wonderful place to get creative♥
I love your art room! It is so festive, what a fabulous place to design and create beauty in:)
Beautiful! I think just having a room like that would invoke inspiration!
oooh fun! i love playing with paint!
some of my first creative memories involve making dolls out of wooden clothes pegs & bunnies out of pompoms. :)
in second grade we had a coloring contest every friday and the winner got a prize. i won the coloring contest for the girls almost every week. that all started it for me! : )
i love your space, so inspiring!
I found you via flickr while looking for gnome homes!
I get my artistic abilities from my father. I am good at crafts and arts but a much better musician. I don't remember NOT doing something...I'm not able to sit still without doing something creative...but I guess it would be doing a water color on a canvas when I was 7. I made flowers...I still have it :-)
If I won, I would use them with my daughter...check out my blog and click on her sketch in the left corner....she is the gifted one...and I started her a little blog to encourage her to follow her heart.....
On another note, I love your work and am so glad I found your blog!
That room is amazing!
It's too funny, because my first memory of 'making something' was a pinata back in grade school. Loved beating the heck out of something to get candy in return!
The first thing I can remember making was in kindergarten. We brought fall leaves to class and our teacher ironed them between pieces of wax paper. I thought they were some of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen. I really thought I had made those myself! I was so proud.
My mother and grandmother are definitely the talented ones in my family. My grandmother's painting on ceramics was amazing (1940s).
Some of my most happy memories were making paperdolls and Valentines with my mother. My mother is the one who had art in college and there were a ton of art books in my house while growing up. But it was the illustrations in picture books that fascinated me. To this day I find the best art inspiration in picture books.
My daughters are very talented artists. The eldest is finding watercolors to be her medium and the second daughter has done beading, papercutting, photography, graphic design and is still exploring.
And Etsy - well, I can spend hours feeding on the talent displayed there! That is where I found YOU! Thanks for the chance to win these watercolors.
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