Starting over with a clean sheet and a tidy studio.......

View of the City, Cathedral and cranes from the Friends' Room at Tate Modern

8" x 11.5", pencil and coloured pencil in sketchbook
copyright Katherine Tyrrell

OK - so did you have a New Year Resolution to tidy up, clean up your studio, declutter, give away everything you don't use and generally recycle your way back to creativity - and some space to put the results?

If so then you might like to try reading:

• Kirsty Hall - Tidying the Studio and Living with Less for some inspirational words by way of an incentive. (This is the link to freecycle.)
• Laurelines - My Studio before and after for some visual inspiration
  
• Ronell - My atelier for the place where Laura got her inspiration!
  
• and Cally - the fourth corner and a New Year and a reminder that the fibre folks do it with boxes !
  
• and for those who've not seen it before here's a link back to last month's post with pictures about Open Studios around the world

Anyway, this post is by way of announcing I forgot to say that one of my goals for 2008 is to CLEAR OUT AND CLEAN UP - despite what I said about housework in the last post. This is important - I want to be able to put all my books away so I can find them again!

In the meantime, the sketch is of the view of the dome of St Paul's Cathedral from the Friends Room at Tate Modern - my backlog of sketches will be posted to my other blog "Travels with a Sketchbook" over the next few days.

Now - back to the clear out. I'm just pondering whether to order a crane and a skip! ;)

PS - My Design and Composition project starts on Monday..........

PPS Blogger isn't uploading images for me at the moment so I used Flickr - which seems to want to compress them! I'll remedy when Blogger starts to behave again. I do wish they'd get their slow/remote server problems sorted!!! (Now sorted and the dome of St Paul's is back to normal!)