Artists Studio Organizing Makes More Time To Paint!

Thinking through your studio organization will save your time

, concentration and using up your daily quota of frustration tolerance. We all wish we had more time for our art but if we put some thought into it we can make time by being more effcient

The heart of my studio is my painting box-station-palette table.

It is a 35 year old roll around steel tool chest with a home built riser on top. That has space for one of my tempered glass palettes with a gray back coating and holes drilled for brushes and tools.

On the palette you can see one of my palette scrapers, a custom razor scraper with easy change blades, an extra long shank formed to keep your knuckles paint free and a screw driver style handle that has blade storage in it.

Below the top is my "ready drawer" which holds the paints I am using right now, below that is an area for containers and other miscellaneous stuff. Off to the left is one of my "Giant Brush Washers" that has a scrub plate and a filter section for recycling solvent. This filter removes the sludge from the thinner allowing you to reuse it indefinitely and of course avoids those disposal issues and saves expensive odorless thinner.

I keep all my thinners, oil and mediums in flip top squeeze bottles, these keep the material fresh and handy, no cap to remove, no spilling, and less waste when dispensing. I highly recommend my squirt bottles, little money, big time and material savings.

Along the back side of the riser are holes that hold my brushes. This arrangement makes it easy to find the brush I am looking for. The coffee can brush storage thing is a good example of a time waster.

I store my paints in the drawers and I added wood trays on rails to increase the storage area. This is a great way to keep your stock organized and easy to find.

When I need a certain color, I know where it is. I don't have to rummage through piles of paint tubes.

This setup is an example of refinements made over years of thinking "how can I eliminate this tiny inconvenience?" or how can save room or avoid having to wander around looking for something. All examples of what is called "the 2% improvement". It is difficult to find one improvement that will double your productivity but it is easy to find lots of little improvements that add up to really big improvements. These little things don't have to be pretty, the costs are minimal, and the results are significant.

by: John Fitzsimmons

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