7 Ways to Survive in a Small Art Studio

Well, we can’t all be Monet.

I’m not talking about being able to paint water lilies, haystacks or steam engine steam (although what I’d give to be able to paint like that)—I’m talking about that barn he used to have to work in.

Right now, about the only dream I have left in life (for, as Eugenie says, life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes) is to have a huge studio. Or well, even just an okay studio will do—​just enough space to house all my junk (and the junk I make my junk with) and hopefully for me to make even more junk in.

I don’t need an entire barn (although that would be AWESOME); I'd be happy with even just a good-sized room.

Buuut like I said, we can’t all be Monet, and most of us have to make do with what we’ve got. And right now all I’ve got is more or less half a room about oh… eight feet square (a little less than two and a half metres)? My sister has the other eight feet, which I try my best not to encroach on even if she has a place of her own near where she works and is hardly ever here.
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