Watercolor artist in Denver, CO, painting super cute character illustrations and teaching other women self-care through the practice of watercolor painting.


Workspaces

So it's official, we have a crawling baby!  Yayyy!  A long-time goal of mine was to get organized and knowing our baby was going to be crawling at any moment was a big incentive. All done with the office so I thought I would share.  I LOVE seeing workspaces. Seeing the set ups that work for others helped me plan out my space.  Plain logistics played a part too and I found the perfect piece of furniture for my big printer to sit on at an antique store.  I could only fit so much on the desk and I wanted an open feel since my old desk was the kind with drawers and a hutch attached.

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This is the watercolor station.  I use my light table here too when I'm tracing my scanned images.

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Lightly packed bookcase for some reference materials.

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I have my cutting board and painting storage over here.  The top ALEX drawers are from IKEA (so happy we have one here now, I could scream) and they hold my paintings, rulers, stamps, ink pads, etc.  The lateral file is for all of our household files.

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A closer look at my messy watercolor station.  The flower painting was found at an antique store, I have a small addiction to antiquing/treasure hunting.

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A different view, baby needs a play area so this is one of  hers, in all it's glory.

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Thankfully I have storage cabinets so I could get the open desk I wanted.  From left to right: mega Epson printer for prints, small Canon printer for scans, iMac, flat scanner is down below and Wacom tablet is on the brown boxes.

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My watercolor palette, spray bottle, paper towels are essential. There is a work in progress painting too.

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Everything up top I don't reach for as much, I have been using the same 5-6 brushes lately.

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The Cool Cats painting I finished and posted yesterday.

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Some vintage bottles, a broken Baby Ben antique clock, 2011 Anthropologie sheep ornament and my Anthropologie E cup for my pens and pencils.

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Lastly, the reason why I can have some free desk space, this is my filing cart from The Container Store.  It is the BEST and it was suggested by Kacy Paide of The Inspired Office.  I file everything for  my art here.

Hope you enjoyed the tour, have a great day!

Wilted

Cool Cats

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