A lot of work was accomplished last week. The new front porch and driveway concrete work was done. Brian and Roger finished the shelves for the stairway to our art studios and got the ceiling installed and new lighting in Roger's glass shop. I completed two new paintings.
This painting is titled "Equine Mystic".Size is 14X11. It a new version of a painting I did a number of times in Tucson and sold. I did this one in a different color pallet.
I have not decided if I will show it at the Vicksburg Gallery, LA's Coffee Cafe, or the Three Rivers Artist Guild Holiday Show. I am changing out the art in the first two places and doing new paintings for the holiday show. I am not sure which paintings I will put in which exhibition.
The next is a large painting size 47X24 that I did for myself. I call it "Stormy Day". It is hanging in my new stairway. Even though this is a very large painting, in the photo it appears to be smaller than the one above. You will get a better perspective in the home improvement photos.
If you have been following my blog you know that we have a basement in this house which we are using as our art studio. Even though this house is only 8 years old the stairway to the basement was pretty crappy looking.
The first thing we did was to remove the door and door frame to give it an open concept look. We put hardwood on the floors and the pop out wall straight ahead and tile on the landings. We painted the walls. I then designed the shelves and Brian and Roger built them. I had fun decorating them with books and items that have special meaning to us and also some fun yard and thrift store finds. We no longer have the feeling of going to a basement but to a place where we spend much time creating art. Here is the finished entrance to our art studio and a closeup of the shelves.
The last photo is of the ceiling and new lighting in Roger's glass studio.
We still have more work to do to complete the project like trim work. We still haven't decided on what to do with the floor. They are unfinished concrete. Roger keeps rubber mats on his side because he does most of his work standing and they are easy on the feet. My side is splattered with paint spills from my messy work habit. My suggestion is concrete paint but Roger would prefer something more finished looking like tile. At this point we will keep the floors as is. We have more home improvement projects that take priority so that decision will come later.
The contractor who is building the front porch has us on the schedule to start the end of this week. I will post photos when it is done.
I am not sure who reads this blog but to whoever you are I hope you are enjoying our new adventure that we started with our move from Arizona to Michigan. We loved our Arizona retirement life but there comes a time when life circumstances change and you realize you have to step out and do something different. Thus, our move to Michigan. We have been here a year and as we look back we realize this was the right thing to do. I'm sorry to say that many of our friends from AZ have passed away or gone into assisted living or sold their house and moved closer to family like we did. " To everything there is a season..." Ec. 3:1
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