Blondheim Art Original Landscape Painting

12x16 inches
oil on panel
SOLD
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Painters Tip

I recently talked with an artist who was lamenting the fact that she had no privacy in her studio space at home.

I suggest looking at the warehouse district wherever you live. I have had two or three different warehouse studios in various stages of disrepair, from pretty good to ramshackle. They were all cheap. I remember one particularly. It was in an old cigar factory in Tampa Florida. I was a starving art student at the time and it was a huge space in the third floor. There were other art students there and plywood partitions between the spaces. It was a great space but hot as sin in the summer and freezing cold in the winter. The pigeons dropped in each day so it smelled like guano. Please understand that I was 20 years old at the time and thought of myself in a garret in Paris. It was all so romantic.

These days I am in a cozy studio behind my house with AC, carpet and heat.

You may want to consider one of the new storage spaces which are climate controlled. A few shop lights added and a roll out rug and you have a pretty nice studio space with AC and Heat with a nice big door.

Another possibility is sharing a commercial storefront space with other painters. It would be fairly easy to partition off three or four spaces in a small storefront. The advantage is that you have front window space to display your work and public accessibility for your work.

Sometimes gallery dealers have some storeroom space that can be rented out or traded for work in the gallery.

Don't forget rural farms and barns. Look around. Possibilities for studios are everywhere.