Chapter 6 – Breathing Out – Part 4

Commit your works to the Lord and your plans will be established.
Proverbs 16:3 NASB

Exercise 4: A Place for Us

Where is your “bit of earth”? Where do you feel safest to create? Where in your home do you feel most at peace, least distracted? Describe your ideal artist’s studio. Where would it be? Would there be windows, and, what would you see when you look out of them? What furniture, art pieces, memorabilia, photographs, and other accessories would you put in your studio?

I’ve got a plan for this summer. We have an extra bedroom upstairs. It used to be the nursery. Now it is a toy room. We have multiple toy rooms. I think we can live with one less especially as the girls are getting older.

When I got my piano last fall, it ended up in there. Which was quite nice. Well, I don’t practice it as much because of location. That’s my most pressing concern. But it more difficult because of the piles of toys that pile up around the piano.

I want to go through all of the toys and keep, trash or sell. There is a built in chest of drawers. I think it needs to come out. The current book shelves do NOT accommodate picture books. But they might accommodate mine. The Beatrix Potter pictures must come done. The Peter Rabbit figure wallpapers must come done. The walls are a pale green. I need something more vivid.

I think, if my piano is in there and I have a comfy chaise lounge to curl up on with either book or laptop, I will be “there”. I need a room of my own. Okay, and maybe an art table for my displays so that all of my materials are within arm’s reach. I’m starting to understand all of those cool pieces of furniture for holding yarn and ribbon and paper …

The room has two windows. One looks out over the porte cochere. The other looks out over the back yard. That will be very helpful.

I’ve thought about this room for about two years now. I think it is time for it to morph!

AND I think I will paint murals on my walls! And I might change them every so often. I want a dragon (the Jabberwock?)! And I’ve often thought of illustrating my own Alice. Can you imagine?

Commend what you do to Yahweh, and what you plan will be achieved.

Proverbs 16:3 NJB

Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze; you shall beat in pieces many peoples; and shall devote their gain to the Lord, their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth.

Micah 4:13 (ESV)