Studio Spaces

Make a list of the types of things you see in most of the studios you look at.

• obviously the art materials
• work by the artists
• books
• MUSIC lots and lots of music, I love music
• Doodads and trinkets
• inspiration and sketchbooks
• food, I know I need it
• Light, both natural and artificial
  

Why do you think these things show up more than once?
Because we're artists, and we all need similar things, our materials and a well lit space to do our work obviously. Books and doodads and sketchbooks for inspiration. Food, duh, we all get hungry when we're working at two in the morning. Music, to keep us going, to keep the energy up, or for some of us inspiration. Our work ends up in our spaces cause that's where it gets made.

How do artists develop spaces and methods for making their most authentic work as part of a daily artistic practice?
They do it instinctively, they know what they like/want/need to do work and the do it. Methods do change though, and the space is adapted to the new methods. If splatter painting is a new method, but you wanna save your walls, you put up a tarp, or thirteen garbage bags taped together....