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Published: 2008-08-03 03:21:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 2438; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 39
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Finally here it is!
My desk, I got rid of the 2nd bed in my room and got this desk! I no longer have to sit on my bed and do my artwork or have no room for storage! This desk is from Sears if anyone is wondering.Going left to right.
My paints (Liquitex Heavy Body, Winton Oils, System 3 Acrylics)
Current paintings, Prismacolor Coloured Pencils, Precut Papers (hid under overlapping part)
Paintbrushes, Copics!, Prismacolors, Loose pencils/
Sketchpads/Sketchbooks
Tins Of pencils (24 Derwent Watercolor, 12 Derwent Artist, 12 Caran D'Ache, 24 KOH-I-NOOR, 12 Staedtler Ergosoft Watercolor, and 12 Staedtler graphite.
Then Some more current drawings.
Grey Drawers:
This holds everything. Stuff like Reeves Oil Paints, Old CDs, cans of fixative (varnish, gesso, etc), glue, charcoal, oil pastels, soft pastels, etc.
White set of drawers. I had this full of art stuff before I got the desk. It is basically empty now. It holds my non art stuff and a few art things.
But that is my new desk! I love it. There is no paint stains.. yet but I do have a few spots from my knife when cutting paper. I think I am going to get a cutting mat so I don't kill the desk.
I am eventually getting a better chair. I found this one in the house. I will probably get a new one for my birthday or Christmas.
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Hey i know this is a tad random but where did you get your copics from, i can't find them anywhere in Canada and its kind annoying... if you could help me out you would be the most amazing person who has ever lived!
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Where do you live first of all?
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close to Edmonton in Canada
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I can't help you. I live in Ontario.
You can always order online. [link] has really good prices... cheaper than what I got them for.
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do they ship to Canada ?
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You have just made my day thank you soo much!
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Your room looks so bright and airy too. I really like it. You're tempting me to stay very light with the walls in my room when we get to painting them. Though just having the paneling down and painting the walls should make it brighter in here.
I love that desk, it's so vast and spacious and uncluttered. But then, I'd need drawers to even begin to achieve unclutteredness.
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It is probably light because I have both blinds open in the picture. I get up in the morning and open and then close them at night when I go to bed. The only thing I don't like is sometimes wind can blow art off my desk, so I normally have the window closed... I am also very afraid of rain coming in and killing something. That is why I never sleep with the window open.
I like the amount of workspace. I keep most stuff in the drawers or stacked in the corner. I can't work in a messy place.
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It makes sense to do that. I'd hate having art blown around or rain coming in on it too.
I love a clear big workspace like that but never manage to keep one because this needs to be in reach and that needs to be in reach and the other thing needs to be in reach, and pretty soon every inch that's in reach has something important on it. Maybe if I did get set up with a larger table or desk once the bed gets moved, and a rolling chair so I'm sliding back and forth along it, that would be a little easier to handle. But I'd still need a lot of drawers and shelves for my supplies. I might buy bookcases for supplies and books sooner than I can redecorate like that. One of the tall five shelf ones from Wal Mart would help a lot.
But not in September or October, that's for sure, and it's likely I'll be all Blick-starved in November. lol
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That is usually what happens by the end of the day. I have half my stuff out on top of the desk. I clean it up before I go to bed.
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Ahh it just looked clean and organized because you got it clean for the photo. Gotcha. lol
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Yea, I did clean for the picture. It wasn't bad. That was in the morning... so too much wasn't out. lol
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Right. I saw your paints neatly lined up in tubes, but no messy palette and pile of preliminary sketches and pencils and bits and brushes and thinner containers all out with it. Good organization. You don't need all those mediums out at the same time to work on one piece -- and if you do multimedia there is enough space to spread all the mediums in use around on the L shape arrangement.
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My paint is always like that. I only have 1 medium too... Sansdor. I need to build my collection of meduims up though. O want to try some acrylic ones.
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Sansodor is good for anything that uses mineral spirits or turpentine. Much pleasanter than real turpentine for its purpose.
Acrylic gloss and matte mediums are VERY useful. Retarding medium to slow drying is useful if you want to do wet in wet acrylics. I can see how more mediums could be a lot of fun!
I bought slowing medium for acrylics and speeding medium for oils, neat huh?
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Thats neat. I have a bunch that I want to try. I may get 1 or 2 next time I go to the art store.
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That's probably the way to do it. Get one or two new mediums with special effects at a time, then explore them and do different things with them, then build on that as you discover your favorite techniques.
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I love your L-shaped desk. That is so cool. I'm jealous. lol
Maybe next year I'll get a desk, or even an L-shaped desk. The window is opposite me over my bed, so I will have to wait till ~HeraldoftheAbyss gets to taking down the paneling in my room for painting before the bed can be moved. Moving my waterbed is going to be tricky. I will also have to buy a desk chair at the time, since right now I use a squashy armchair. That or cut the desk legs shorter so that it's the right height for a squashy armchair and forget using a normal desk chair (which might be better for my back.) The armchair does rotate if it's got room to, so that might be the best solution. Certainly cheaper!
Your drawer space, both units, is enviable. I love all the clear space you have to work in... but then if I got a desk like that, my stack of colored pencils tins would be considerably higher. So glad you got the Koh-I-Noors, they are real workhorses for filling large areas. And the Caran-d'Ache Pablo are glorious. I have a twelver of those too and love them. Want a bigger set next year, my master sets plan is getting put off till 2009.
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Thank you! I like the desk a lot too!
I would love to see your coloured pencil tin stack! It would be amazing. I am just starting out. But eventually, I will have fell sets of some of my favourites!
I like my drawer space too. It holds a lot and keeps my desk clear.
These aren't Caran-d'Ache Pablo. My sister got them for art class when she did a 3 month exchange in France. They were only $12. They just say Caran-d'Ache watersoluble color pencils.
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Hehehe -- I should probably stack up ALL of my colored pencils sets and take a good photo of the stack. Maybe when I get a desk. Right now they are spread out on the table next to me, some are tucked on top of the books under the laptop cart, and a lot of them are stacked on the easel shelf. I moved all the pastels sets off the easel shelf across the room onto the bookcase middle shelf, and that made room for colored pencils, watercolors and inks.
I am so tempted to get a good drafting table someday, with a shelf or drawer under it for some of these supplies and a taboret with drawers instead of an end table without. If I started using it with the tilt, stuff would not accumulate on top of it, though I would have to use one of those sectioned side holders with it for pencils, etc.
I don't think even the smallest 24 x 36" one would fit in my room in its current arrangement though, and it would need to be shortened or I'd need to put blocks up under the armchair to get it to a comfortable height with the high surface.
Your new desk has me thinking about it!
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I was going to get a drafting table. But then I realized if I tilted it, I couldn't store anything and they don't have drawers... well big ones. So I went with a normal computer desk. I am glad I did too!
All I need is a new chair. I am looking into a chair that has wheels, can raise and lower, and a nice back. Basically a computer chair.
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Yeah, good point. The only drawers I've ever seen on them are wide flat drawers. Fine for storing paper but putting anything else in them gets it turned into chaos FAST. I know this from experience and if I ever get one with a drawer, that becomes where loose full sheets of Canson and half sheets of watercolor paper live, stored flat.
That sounds like a good idea for what to look for in a chair. I'd want arms too, but that may not be important to you.
I like working on a tilted surface if I have one available. So I've considered getting a particular table from Blick if I can shim up an armchair high enough to use with it -- there's a 24" square tilting section and another 18" of flat table next to it for stacking supplies. Plus you can put a taboret rolling in under it. I always liked that one, but the right chair at the right height would be hard with it.
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I am getting one with arms. I have not having a place to rest my arms when drawing or even at school just writing notes.
I have never really worked on a tilted surface. I heard if you are doing something big you should or else it can lead to a wonky composition.
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It can be handy for reaching the top parts of the paper and the farther parts of the paper on a large drawing. But you can also turn it around, and if you worked the composition out in a smaller sketch, and mark it up accurately to transfer the sketch, you would still have a good composition.
Adjustable tilt drafting tables can also be used almost like easels if you fasten the paper to it, tilting it more and more till you're standing to do some of it and sitting down at a lower tilt for some. This is for athletic artists.
I sit in a squashy armchair and clip the paper onto my biggest sketchboard and keep turning it and tilting it to whatever's convenient to get at whatever part I'm doing. But I will generally work top to down on big pieces so that I'm not leaning on parts that are finished. They are usually pastels if I work that big.
The big clipboard was under $20 at Blick and has a big rubberband too for holding big sheets of paper flat.
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I think I know what you are talking about. I was looking into getting one of those one time. They look useful. Especially when I didn't have the desk and was just working on my bed.
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They are cheaper than drafting tables and VERY handy. You can also make it work like one by bending a wire coathanger into a sort of prop behind it, taping it on with duct tape and setting it on a table or desk. Messy and juryrigged but useful.
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Your room looks so small! But I love the light from the windows that you get! As I followed you around the room for the tour, I found my cell phone laying on your white drawers! LOL
Anyway, Nice layout! I'm glad you love your desk, and I hope you get to produce more wonderful art!
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It is small. That is why I got a l-shaped desk. It offered the most room but took up less space. I love my two big windows too. I open the blinds every morning before I sit down to work. 
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Cool, at least you made the best of what you have.
Cell phones are the addiction of the future. 
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