When I am in New York, you know, my studio is big, about 20,000 to 25,000 square feet, and I have painting rooms and rooms I do etching in, rooms I do lithographs.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.
In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to crafts. There is a lot of inspiration around us that we can see every day and turn into projects.
I have a studio at home, and do 3 hours a day that way.
I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home.
I need to be working with the art world in N.Y.C. as much as I need to be working in my studios in Chicago and rural Wisconsin.
My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.
I have never had a studio, and I do not understand shutting oneself up in a room. To draw, yes; to paint, no.
I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.
If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy.
In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can watch people go by.