ORGANIZATION BEGINS
10-3-09 POST KEYWORDS: home depot, paintings, organization, painting studio, staples, binders, wood, angry wave, cojo art juggernaut, artsucks.com, cojo
This is the first weekend I've had in the past three where I have time to do something other than sketch water. From everything I've learned about the business of art thus far, unless you are far enough along to have an office manager and research staff, there is a lot of business you have to handle and keep in order yourself. As a working artist, this means getting organized. I took a trip over to Staples and picked up a few more two inch D-Ring binders. I have quite the collection now, and when I added labels to them they really started to take shape. If I'm doing this I'm gonna do it right. Fifteen years of disorganization later and I am finally taking some advice from the village elders.
On the way back I swung by Home Depot and picked up a bunch of supplies for my painting studio. I got two 6 x 9' canvas drop cloths, which I will put directly under the sawhorses. I also got one of those massive rolls of brown paper, to protect the floor. Some paint pails, and got some two by fours cut into thirty-six inch sections, as well as some five by five's cut down so I can make a drying rack for the wet three foot by eight foot canvases. I'll build the rack next week after I finish laying out floor and get the lighting rig constructed.
I never knew that Home Depot would rough cut your wood for you to any length right in the store. The sign said it the first two cuts were free and each cut after would cost twenty five cents, but when I wrung out they didn't even charge me for the cuts, pretty sweet It would have taken me forever to hand saw through that five by five shit.
