There is no such thing as a correct or neutral palette. Every palette has an agenda; it aids and even encourages you to paint a certain way.
Mixed-media artist Mariano Del Rosario praises the simple, quotidian tools he uses to make art.
“I’ve found that the meditative process of layering the thin, delicate brushstrokes that make up the surface of a tempera painting has the effect of imparting an intimate stillness to even the most active composition.”
My studio is a huge warehouse with splendid view in Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY, which I share spaces with five other artists. I’ve been living in New York almost four years now, and discovered the area from other groups of artists who worked there.
You can never have enough space, right? Yet, the more space you have, the more stuff you seem to collect.
My studio is in Giggleswick, North Yorkshire, UK. I have access to a sunny ceramics studio as part of a one-year residency program facilitated by a lovely old school that was founded in the sixteenth century.
There is a nondescript metal door that leads upstairs to the Side Door Studio. For me, it’s the equivalent of Platform 9 3/4 in Harry Potter. It seems like a magical transformation going from the outside world into a place where artists work.
While I’m working, I prefer to connect with everything that happens around me in a natural way—to the painting itself and with anything that happens around it.
I live in Alaior, a small town on the island of Minorca, off the coast of Spain. I came here at the beginning of 2008 to work at the International Printmaking Center Xalubinia, and it’s here where I’ve set up my studio…
The Studio Project II offers a glimpse of artists’ studios outside the US. Painter Geoff Farnsworth’s studio is in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.