Jim O'Neil's photos with the keyword: studio

I've been accused of have a clean, neat, studio. This picture should dispel such a rumor! :-)

I took this a few months ago when I was doing some sumi painting.

I've been accused by some of maintaining a clean and ordered work area, I beg to differ..... :-)

I've always hated cleaning my palette. Subsequently I changed, quite a while ago, to using a glass palette (a broken, recycled, window pane) , -if I forget to clean it & the paint dries on it, run a razor blade scrapper across it and it's good as new. Since then I've found a use for defunct CDs/DVDs, they're great, as disposable palettes, for small amounts of paints and a few colors. Lately I'm trying Glad's, 'Press'n Seal' sealing wrap on my old wooden palette, use it' peel if, toss it. Not bad but I'm not too comfortable with the throwaway culture, will probable stick to glass.

During the winter up here, with the sun rising and setting in the south, either I've great 'northern' light or no daylight in my studio area. However from now, early June through August, with the sun rising and setting in the north, alas there is no northern (but 24 hour daylight) light available. I built this easel well over twenty years ago and, as time goes by, I'm becoming more and more satisfied with it's simple design.