Easel Canvas storage space Painting storage space Painting hanging space Brushes, paints, pencils, mediums, etc storage space (jars and stuff) Dedicated palette space + paper towel + brush holder/knives + brush cleaner and solvent Trash bin Sketchbook storage + filming/streaming set up Space to relax + for company Small rectangular mirror to flip painting Air purifier
I use no solvent to clean my brushes ! I spoke to a graduate of the Gage Academy Atelier. He showed me his brushes. They looked NEW! Here is how he cleans them: Wipe off as much wet paint from your brush as you can onto a cloth or piece of paper kitchen towel. ( if you like, you can dip the bristles into some plain cooking oil to loosen the paint more..then re-wipe.) Place a small amount of Dawn dish soap in your hand. Dawn is the best. ( you can put a piece of cling film over your palm if you don't want direct contact with the paint ) Press the bristles down into the liquid soap ...first one side, then the other. Rinse in warmish but not hot water. Repeat. Last, press bristles again on the surface of a bar of white Ivory Soap until no pigment shows. Rinse well. If you like, you can go through the same steps using Murphy's Oil Soap. Shape the bristles with your fingers and lay the brush on its side until dry.
Thank you Florentine for a very informative video. I have a small studio , previously half of my garage converted to a studio. I do have a lot of stuff and have done a lot of paintings. So I do need to look at it and probably reorganise. However I am glad I have it with shelves and a wall unit too. Looking forwards to your videos.
Thank you for sharing your studio setup. I am also one with limited space with family in a apartment. However, I'm willing to do whatever it takes to continue my artwork as well has making a functional studio.
I only have a very small corner next to my kitchen and I’m fortunate to have even that. I always have to make sure I only keep what I will use or need. I wish I can leave my easel set up all the time but I can’t at this point unless I move to another place. Thanks for posting this video. I’m always looking for inspiration.
Thank yo for sharing your studio. I share a small flat in UK with my daughter. We each have a corner in the living room. The dogs have the largest space, lol It works and we are all happy.
One of the bedrooms in our house is now my studio. Two big windows. Room for all supplies and easel and a table pallet. Just starting out with oil paints. I was a watercolor artist before. It’s like starting all over.
I recently got a dedicated room in which to paint and I’m so much more productive and happy to be able to work without having to clear up the space. I use to work in our living or dining room. When I was in those spaces I was forced to set aside the work to accommodate family life, now art and family coexist much better;-) I have a flat table for drawing and water color and a vertical easel with integrated shelves for oil and acrylic painting
What a sweet stucco space! I have been painting in my dining nook (acrylic), an I process of shifting my harps into that space, and redoing the end of my living room for my studio.
Great studio tour, I have a room dedicated to art and music, where I can keep everything out. The way I work, out of sight, out of mind, so I need to have everything out and available. Just updated the lighting using LED day light bulbs, these seem to work well. Thanks for the tour, looking forward to the resumption of your streaming.
Hi, Your studio looked very well-organised. My space was our spare bedroom but we are planning to move it to our garage. Our car will go in a carport. Current space is only 9ftx10ft and includes a filing cabinet, 4 bookcases, 2 music cd cases, a 5 yr old pc on a trolley, which I use to edit photos to printing them for painting. I have subscribed. Thanks for your excellent commentary.
You created an amazing space for your art. I paint on the kitchen table, which is often annoying, because we have to eat in the livingroom and its difficult to keep any order, but I am moving out soon and looking now for the perfect house with extra space to paint. Lets hope I find it. Thank you for sharing.
I've 3 work areas now: Main Art Studio, 9.5' x 9'. 5' x 3' 1940s drafting table, same for dual light correction drafting lights on arm. Added Otto light, love added warmth. Added 6' Tx 48' W x 18" D Industrial shelves on wheels, for drying, brush & paint storage. Comfortable lumbar support drafting chair, with my original kitchen taboret raised up to 3'. Also crammed in on the other side, 3' shelves, that fit under my table, with seldom used items, such as my beloved airbrush & goodies. A jewelry bench on top of an old vanity, so I can soldier things with my torch, etc. Things in drawers. Small taboret full of old Alvin templates, then acrylics, etc. Another full of Pro gouache, watercolours, oil pastels, sculpting tools. Clay by airbrush. When area clean, you can seat 2 people at the bar for eating. Wind up fighting 2 cats over my painting area...often lay above my paintings. Sometimes they lend a paw - only use nontoxic, when they're up there, or ink. Secondary station, 5' x5 ' Dedicated computer station with 3 monitors. Cintiq, regular monitor - & 40" tv I can pull out from wall for amusement. Tertiary station just completed, Balcony Oil Painting area, with strong umbrella, table, Dual plein air set-up, with indoors palette I keep covered, on it's own shelf in freezer. Pain to defrost, but keeps them fresh for months, like last use. About as detailed as I can give. Do have flat files in garage, felt putting drafting table on top of them in front of sliding glass windows, courting disaster in case of earthquakes here in California.
hobby artist. I paint in my room. Have an easel a nice drawer set and tons of brushes on my window ledge. I love the lil corner. I clear up my mess when hubby gets home.
I have a small room to !! Around the same size 😊 I light it up bright. all my drawings that I don't sell end up in sketch books and my paintings right now are on the wall but I would like to make a rack to store them.
I recently moved and am working on getting settled in. I was working in my own office. My work surfaces were a 10 foot long kitchen countertop with cabinet bases for storage. It served as my computer space and sketchbook area. I also have an H frame and plein air easel. Now im fitting into a breakfast nook area. Lovely light to work in and lots of lovely plants. Not enough room for the countertop. Worth the sacrifices though. Its all still a bit of a hodge podge but its coming together.
I used to work on a plein air easel as well, it's pretty useful with the storing compartments ! But it was too wobbly and it took too much space on the ground.
thank you for sharing. Fortunatly I have a huge drawing and painting room at the underground of my house with two windows...But that's not the main thing to create...still need to organize
Hi Florent. I have a small space that I want to clean out and create my home studio. You have inspired me. I don't see a lot of natural light in your space so what kind of lighting do you have ? What do you do to vent fumes?
Thank u sooo much such a honest tour.. i really wanted to see ths kind studio.. my studio is in my bedroom and but little problem is tht.. i hv rectangular shape room n thr is no free cornr..
Polar Bear water color is nice. Its where my painting interests started. I still have a love for it. Music is a huge thing in my life. To me oil painting, especially Florent's style reminds me of classical music. Everything is precise, in time, and in key to create an experience that leaves one in awe. Watercolor reminds me of jazz covers. It's not a bad thing at all. It may be a scene we are all familiar with but we have to fill in the blanks to appreciate the whole. Both demanding but rewarding.
I have a beautiful new studio upstairs just waiting for me to move into it.... it's been 2 months and I'm still painting in my bedroom 🙄so weird makes no sense at all. I was so excited for it to be finished and when it was finally ready... idk....I just don't feel creative in there or even know where to begin. Thanks for the video. I need to get myself in gear and get it figured out.
I paint and draw in front of my desktop in my room :") sometimes it's organized but most of the time it's not, but when it is I keep all my supplies in pencil cases or cups or boxes on my desk
Go to your local glass merchant and ask for a piece of tempered glass cut to your size. Ask for the edges to be sanded smooth also. I got one 12" by 15". The glass was £7 and the sanding by machine was £8. So £15 in total. Back home I put a piece of grey card underneath the glass (same size) and secured it round the edge with plastic duck tape. Hope this helps.
You did well with this room. I really like it. I am curious though, how high are the ceilings? Also, are the wall painted that color....or are they black/gray cloths that you hung there? Thank you.
Thank you for sharing with us your studio. Is there a reason the walls are black? Does it have a window for sunlight or do you prefer to work without it?
The walls are covered with black curtains to prevent glare and reflections on my paintings ! I do have a window that I open when I can, but I often work during the evening or during the night, so I might as well have a nice light set up.
I work mostly in my basement. The space is fairly large but I do not have wIndows. What can I do to improve the environment? I use liquin, odorless turpinoid and linseed oil. Most of my work is without mediums.
I think you're fine as long as you have good lighting. In my studio I use neon light (I mix 4000K and 6500K tubes). As far as ventilation goes, try to see if you can create a steady air flow with an entry spot and an exit spot, but since you're using mediums reasonnably, I think you're fine.
hey hii, nice arrangement... I have question if you can answer. I use my bedroom as my studio , I primarily work in oil but few of my friends suggested me not to work and sleep in there because it contains harmful toxic materials. I know it's toxic but what you think if I sleep and work there (almost many paintings are hanged there too), it is ok ???
Nilesh Nikalje the worst thing for you is if you are using mineral spirits or turpentine. As those evaporate they can build up. Especially without air filtration or ventilation. I switched from turpentine and odorless mineral sprits to lavender spike oil and citrus oil. I did this because we were moving and i was going into a smaller space. Chelsea's is a line of products specifically catered to artists concerened with toxic products. As far as paint itself. As long as you're not sanding down paintings in your room and you're not eating paint you should be fine there.
If you don't have the choice, you have to paint somewhere : I suggest you renew the air in your room as much as possible, and try to use a little solvents as possible : try cleaning your brushes with safflower oil or soap and water. Or switch to non-toxic alternatives like Louis d'Antonio suggests, even though oil of spike lavender smells a lot and is not non-toxic. Keep all your solvent jars shut and everything very tidy. It should be fine. But of course it's much better to not sleep around the solvents. Store them somewhere else maybe ?... For the finished painting, everything has evaporated a long time ago, solvents evaporate within a fe minutes or hours, after that, they stay in the air around your house until you open your windows.
Florent Farges - arts Thank you for replying. I try to avoid turpentine as possible as I can. I use linseed oil mostly as a medium. I clean my brushes with soap water as you said. I keep my solvents and mediums atleast 2-3 metres away from me and all tighten. But I can't do anything for paintings which are finished and ongoing. And as you said it evaporates quickly and need not to worry about it. But still I get smells of paints , is it ok ? and what you say about Cadmiums , lead's toxicity ? I have two large windows in my room but to arrange lighting I can't open any one of them. I have seen few videos about 'ventilation in art studio' on TH-cam but they are out my budget. As you are the one who thinks about student and beginners , can you make a detailed video on 'budget ventilation and toxicity of materials used in oil painting' ???... I'm so sorry for being too conscious about toxicity lols , hope you can understand. Thank you for helping us. :)
Having a setup for efficient organization is extremely important. This video shows how it is possible to achieve that order. Most people have not reached that level of enlightenment. Some artists have a studio space that looks like Francis Bacon's disastrous chaos. You only need to look at a few minutes of this linked video to see what I mean: th-cam.com/video/DpvffyFouXY/w-d-xo.html
Some oil paint for whatever reason smells god awful but it's not dangerous unless you paint your pillow maybe. The solvents can be very bad for your health with extended exposure
it's cozy, neat and looks like every detail is thought through, just perfect
Easel
Canvas storage space
Painting storage space
Painting hanging space
Brushes, paints, pencils, mediums, etc storage space (jars and stuff)
Dedicated palette space + paper towel + brush holder/knives + brush cleaner and solvent
Trash bin
Sketchbook storage + filming/streaming set up
Space to relax + for company
Small rectangular mirror to flip painting
Air purifier
Thank you Florentine for sharing, you have a cozy place to work on . Now i have better idea.
Brilliant ideas for set up thanks!
I use no solvent to clean my brushes !
I spoke to a graduate of the Gage Academy Atelier. He showed me his brushes. They looked NEW!
Here is how he cleans them:
Wipe off as much wet paint from your brush as you can onto a cloth or piece of paper kitchen towel.
( if you like, you can dip the bristles into some plain cooking oil to loosen the paint more..then re-wipe.)
Place a small amount of Dawn dish soap in your hand. Dawn is the best.
( you can put a piece of cling film over your palm if you don't want direct contact with the paint )
Press the bristles down into the liquid soap ...first one side, then the other.
Rinse in warmish but not hot water.
Repeat.
Last, press bristles again on the surface of a bar of white Ivory Soap until no pigment shows.
Rinse well.
If you like, you can go through the same steps using Murphy's Oil Soap.
Shape the bristles with your fingers and lay the brush on its side until dry.
Thank you Florentine for a very informative video. I have a small studio , previously half of my garage converted to a studio. I do have a lot of stuff and have done a lot of paintings. So I do need to look at it and probably reorganise. However I am glad I have it with shelves and a wall unit too. Looking forwards to your videos.
Thank you for sharing your studio setup. I am also one with limited space with family in a apartment. However, I'm willing to do whatever it takes to continue my artwork as well has making a functional studio.
I only have a very small corner next to my kitchen and I’m fortunate to have even that.
I always have to make sure I only keep what I will use or need. I wish I can leave my easel set up all the time but I can’t at this point unless I move to another place.
Thanks for posting this video. I’m always looking for inspiration.
you still painting?
Thank yo for sharing your studio. I share a small flat in UK with my daughter. We each have a corner in the living room. The dogs have the largest space, lol It works and we are all happy.
As long as you're happy, that's the most important thing ! :)
One of the bedrooms in our house is now my studio. Two big windows. Room for all supplies and easel and a table pallet. Just starting out with oil paints. I was a watercolor artist before. It’s like starting all over.
Really enjoyed watching how you stored your paintings! 👍👏
I recently got a dedicated room in which to paint and I’m so much more productive and happy to be able to work without having to clear up the space. I use to work in our living or dining room. When I was in those spaces I was forced to set aside the work to accommodate family life, now art and family coexist much better;-) I have a flat table for drawing and water color and a vertical easel with integrated shelves for oil and acrylic painting
What a sweet stucco space!
I have been painting in my dining nook (acrylic), an I process of shifting my harps into that space, and redoing the end of my living room for my studio.
In my bedroom, have a great art table, keep most of my paints, and drawing medium in a plastic box,
Great studio tour, I have a room dedicated to art and music, where I can keep everything out. The way I work, out of sight, out of mind, so I need to have everything out and available. Just updated the lighting using LED day light bulbs, these seem to work well. Thanks for the tour, looking forward to the resumption of your streaming.
Hi,
Your studio looked very well-organised. My space was our spare bedroom but we are planning to move it to our garage. Our car will go in a carport. Current space is only 9ftx10ft and includes a filing cabinet, 4 bookcases, 2 music cd cases, a 5 yr old pc on a trolley, which I use to edit photos to printing them for painting. I have subscribed. Thanks for your excellent commentary.
You created an amazing space for your art. I paint on the kitchen table, which is often annoying, because we have to eat in the livingroom and its difficult to keep any order, but I am moving out soon and looking now for the perfect house with extra space to paint. Lets hope I find it. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for this video. Great watching again.
I have part of a kitchen counter in a small apartment. My paints, brushes, etc. are on shelves and I have to keep very organized or it's a big mess.
I've 3 work areas now: Main Art Studio, 9.5' x 9'. 5' x 3' 1940s drafting table, same for dual light correction drafting lights on arm. Added Otto light, love added warmth. Added 6' Tx 48' W x 18" D Industrial shelves on wheels, for drying, brush & paint storage. Comfortable lumbar support drafting chair, with my original kitchen taboret raised up to 3'. Also crammed in on the other side, 3' shelves, that fit under my table, with seldom used items, such as my beloved airbrush & goodies. A jewelry bench on top of an old vanity, so I can soldier things with my torch, etc. Things in drawers. Small taboret full of old Alvin templates, then acrylics, etc. Another full of Pro gouache, watercolours, oil pastels, sculpting tools. Clay by airbrush. When area clean, you can seat 2 people at the bar for eating. Wind up fighting 2 cats over my painting area...often lay above my paintings. Sometimes they lend a paw - only use nontoxic, when they're up there, or ink.
Secondary station, 5' x5 ' Dedicated computer station with 3 monitors. Cintiq, regular monitor - & 40" tv I can pull out from wall for amusement.
Tertiary station just completed, Balcony Oil Painting area, with strong umbrella, table, Dual plein air set-up, with indoors palette I keep covered, on it's own shelf in freezer. Pain to defrost, but keeps them fresh for months, like last use.
About as detailed as I can give. Do have flat files in garage, felt putting drafting table on top of them in front of sliding glass windows, courting disaster in case of earthquakes here in California.
hobby artist. I paint in my room. Have an easel a nice drawer set and tons of brushes on my window ledge. I love the lil corner. I clear up my mess when hubby gets home.
I have a small room to !! Around the same size 😊 I light it up bright. all my drawings that I don't sell end up in sketch books and my paintings right now are on the wall but I would like to make a rack to store them.
I recently moved and am working on getting settled in. I was working in my own office. My work surfaces were a 10 foot long kitchen countertop with cabinet bases for storage. It served as my computer space and sketchbook area. I also have an H frame and plein air easel. Now im fitting into a breakfast nook area. Lovely light to work in and lots of lovely plants. Not enough room for the countertop. Worth the sacrifices though. Its all still a bit of a hodge podge but its coming together.
Forgot to mention that my plein air easel also doubles as my table top easel. I just leave the legs folded up.
I used to work on a plein air easel as well, it's pretty useful with the storing compartments ! But it was too wobbly and it took too much space on the ground.
Florent Farges - arts yes which is why it is predominantly my desktop easel.
Louis D'Antonio I hear you but I still try and use my French easel, but I can see when I'll use mine for a desk top easel.
Great space! I'm currently painting in the far end of our dining room, but hope to have a small studio built next year in our garden.
That's awesome ! Think about ventilation !... Let me know how it goes !
thank you for sharing. Fortunatly I have a huge drawing and painting room at the underground of my house with two windows...But that's not the main thing to create...still need to organize
Hey Florent, cool room! One question, how do you solve the smell of the fumes from the solvent and mediums in your room? It seems quite enclosed
yes, I was wondering this as well!
I second this question !
Get odorless solvents.
@@me_here_now their fumes are just as toxic..
Question, why do you need solvants? The only one I ever use is linseed oil.
Hi Florent. I have a small space that I want to clean out and create my home studio. You have inspired me. I don't see a lot of natural light in your space so what kind of lighting do you have ?
What do you do to vent fumes?
Do you have any natural light there? IF not, why? Thanks!
Studio= My bedroom.
Organisation= MESS.
Haha ! I don't know why, but I'm not surprised...
My balcony for the moment.
Thanks for the tour florent :)
You're welcome Dreanki !!
Wich camera do you use to shoot your tutorial videos? Thanks!!
Right now looking after a little corner that I can call "studio". Moving to a smaller apartment and making all my materials fit somehow.
Thank u sooo much such a honest tour.. i really wanted to see ths kind studio.. my studio is in my bedroom and but little problem is tht.. i hv rectangular shape room n thr is no free cornr..
awesome...i have a similar space and turned it into my studio...
My "old dreams" of painting on canvas has changed to watercolour!!! YAY!
Hope the summer's been nice, also please upload more on Instagram!
Polar Bear water color is nice. Its where my painting interests started. I still have a love for it. Music is a huge thing in my life. To me oil painting, especially Florent's style reminds me of classical music. Everything is precise, in time, and in key to create an experience that leaves one in awe. Watercolor reminds me of jazz covers. It's not a bad thing at all. It may be a scene we are all familiar with but we have to fill in the blanks to appreciate the whole. Both demanding but rewarding.
Do you have any water color artists you follow?
I have a beautiful new studio upstairs just waiting for me to move into it.... it's been 2 months and I'm still painting in my bedroom 🙄so weird makes no sense at all. I was so excited for it to be finished and when it was finally ready... idk....I just don't feel creative in there or even know where to begin. Thanks for the video. I need to get myself in gear and get it figured out.
nice room～～
I paint and draw in front of my desktop in my room :")
sometimes it's organized but most of the time it's not, but when it is I keep all my supplies in pencil cases or cups or boxes on my desk
Where did you purchase the table that hold you pallet? I Am looking for something similar.
How did you make your glass palette?
Go to your local glass merchant and ask for a piece of tempered glass cut to your size. Ask for the edges to be sanded smooth also. I got one 12" by 15". The glass was £7 and the sanding by machine was £8. So £15 in total. Back home I put a piece of grey card underneath the glass (same size) and secured it round the edge with plastic duck tape. Hope this helps.
You did well with this room. I really like it. I am curious though, how high are the ceilings? Also, are the wall painted that color....or are they black/gray cloths that you hung there? Thank you.
Im getting my gardenhouse ready for painting is it nessery to make the wals black?
Thank you for sharing with us your studio. Is there a reason the walls are black? Does it have a window for sunlight or do you prefer to work without it?
The walls are covered with black curtains to prevent glare and reflections on my paintings ! I do have a window that I open when I can, but I often work during the evening or during the night, so I might as well have a nice light set up.
Ex cuseme sir, Can you show the Canvas holder ? I mean shape and mesurement. Thanks Sir.
I work mostly in my basement. The space is fairly large but I do not have wIndows. What can I do to improve the environment? I use liquin, odorless turpinoid and linseed oil. Most of my work is without mediums.
I think you're fine as long as you have good lighting. In my studio I use neon light (I mix 4000K and 6500K tubes). As far as ventilation goes, try to see if you can create a steady air flow with an entry spot and an exit spot, but since you're using mediums reasonnably, I think you're fine.
Hi ! I'm in Australia. I was wondering, when did you start painting and do you do art full time?
hey hii, nice arrangement...
I have question if you can answer. I use my bedroom as my studio , I primarily work in oil but few of my friends suggested me not to work and sleep in there because it contains harmful toxic materials. I know it's toxic but what you think if I sleep and work there (almost many paintings are hanged there too), it is ok ???
Nilesh Nikalje the worst thing for you is if you are using mineral spirits or turpentine. As those evaporate they can build up. Especially without air filtration or ventilation. I switched from turpentine and odorless mineral sprits to lavender spike oil and citrus oil. I did this because we were moving and i was going into a smaller space. Chelsea's is a line of products specifically catered to artists concerened with toxic products. As far as paint itself. As long as you're not sanding down paintings in your room and you're not eating paint you should be fine there.
If you don't have the choice, you have to paint somewhere : I suggest you renew the air in your room as much as possible, and try to use a little solvents as possible : try cleaning your brushes with safflower oil or soap and water. Or switch to non-toxic alternatives like Louis d'Antonio suggests, even though oil of spike lavender smells a lot and is not non-toxic. Keep all your solvent jars shut and everything very tidy. It should be fine. But of course it's much better to not sleep around the solvents. Store them somewhere else maybe ?... For the finished painting, everything has evaporated a long time ago, solvents evaporate within a fe minutes or hours, after that, they stay in the air around your house until you open your windows.
Florent Farges - arts
Thank you for replying. I try to avoid turpentine as possible as I can. I use linseed oil mostly as a medium. I clean my brushes with soap water as you said. I keep my solvents and mediums atleast 2-3 metres away from me and all tighten. But I can't do anything for paintings which are finished and ongoing. And as you said it evaporates quickly and need not to worry about it. But still I get smells of paints , is it ok ? and what you say about Cadmiums , lead's toxicity ? I have two large windows in my room but to arrange lighting I can't open any one of them. I have seen few videos about 'ventilation in art studio' on TH-cam but they are out my budget. As you are the one who thinks about student and beginners , can you make a detailed video on 'budget ventilation and toxicity of materials used in oil painting' ???... I'm so sorry for being too conscious about toxicity lols , hope you can understand.
Thank you for helping us. :)
Nilesh Nikalje as long as you are not sanding your painting or eating your paint you're fine. the pigment is locked in the film.
Louis D'Antonio
I don't sand , no reason to do so. lols.
Thank you.
Is it a covered? Storing is Keen to all true artist and pro painters.
Ventilation?
Having a setup for efficient organization is extremely important. This video shows how it is possible to achieve that order. Most people have not reached that level of enlightenment. Some artists have a studio space that looks like Francis Bacon's disastrous chaos. You only need to look at a few minutes of this linked video to see what I mean: th-cam.com/video/DpvffyFouXY/w-d-xo.html
I paint and draw in my room where i sleep and sometimes it gets rielly smelly like oil paint and i wanted to ask are oil paint fumes dangerus
Some oil paint for whatever reason smells god awful but it's not dangerous unless you paint your pillow maybe. The solvents can be very bad for your health with extended exposure
Is that a Mabef artist studio easel?
Yes, it is.
Why black curtains all around?
My Dinning room is my Art Studio
your a rum lad ,, but I do like you ,,,,,,,,,you have ball room compared with mine ,, love you lad ...your smile is infectous take care
Take off the music and we will hear you!