To the Studio

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
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When I come up the stairs, I can look through the house from one end to the other and even see the outside in front of my studio. I always enjoy that - especially when the sun is setting and the golden light floods through the studio into the hallway. But - no sun today, so here's the hallway with the electric lights on, seen from the other direction than last time.

L'Atelier Gris II, sunny corner in artist's studio

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
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Well, I tried to do this one a bit looser than the first one but I am not sure I like it better. I wanted to ignore the details - the difficulty is to decide which detail is superfluous which essential? When is less more?

L'Atelier Gris, sunny corner in artist's studio

oil on canvas panel - Öl auf Malplatte - huile sur carton entoilé
15 cm x 15 cm / 5,9" x 5,9"
Buy it here

Heavy rain here today, so I stayed in my studio and tried to capture the occasional sunrays peaking through an opening in the clouds. This is definitely the only tidy corner in my studio, believe me! I am thinking of maybe painting the chaotic corners sometime as well, but in this one I wanted to concentrate on the light on the grey walls (unfortuntely not white - yet...) and keep it as simple as possible. I did a second one after this which I will show you tomorrow. By the way, isn't that little sofa beautiful? A friend of mine gave it to me with two matching chairs, because she moved and didn't have any space for it anymore. Lucky me!