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Too Hot in the Painting Workshop

Because oil painting can be messy, I paint in a workshop building with a swamp cooler instead of inside my real studio with its more effective air conditioner.

We had some of those 100+ degree days, and the swamp cooler was not up to the task of keeping me comfortable. Heaven forbid that a Central California artist be uncomfortable! A hot artist is an uncomfortable artist, an uncomfortable artist doesn’t paint well, an artist who doesn’t paint well doesn’t sell well, and an artist who doesn’t sell well has to get a real job.

So, I took these barely begun paintings off the wall in the workshop and moved into the studio.

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I managed to not make an oil painting mess in my little air-conditioned studio, a room normally used for pencil drawing, private drawing lessons, and doing non-messy businessy things.

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That back wall has FIVE WET OIL PAINTINGS hanging on push-pins. It (the wall) might now be in need of a new coat of paint.

Nah. It’s a STUDIO, for cryin’ out loud!

Tune in tomorrow to see three of the paintings, finished and ready to buy.

2 Comments

  1. Jana,

    I liked the peek into your studio.

    So, it’s been hot there this week. It’s been getting cooler here suddenly, sweeping fall in just as notebooks and pencils are on sale on stores everywhere. It’s appropriate but I can’t bear to give up summer yet.

    Thinking of you,
    Jennifer Dougan
    http://www.jenniferdougan.com

    • Thank you for checking in Jennifer. How nice to have fall’s coolness appear . . . we are surrounded by smoke from wildfires, and the heat just marches on.

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