The Artist’s Magazine – October 2019

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24 Artists Magazine October 2019


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THE BIG CLEAN
“When, after 10 years of parental care, both of my parents
had passed on, I felt that one stage of my life had ended
and another had begun,” says Katherine Chang Liu. “Over
the course of that decade of caretaking, a lot of things had
accumulated in my studio, and my working space had
shrunk. So I did a big purge.
“I started with old work, tearing up a lot of old paintings
I’d done on paper and gessoing a lot of the work I’d painted

oncanvasorpanel.I tooka coldeyetowhatneededtobe
discarded,andwithina week,I’dreducedtheamountof
stuffinmystudioby 75 percent.
“ThenI didthesamewithartsuppliesandartbooks.
Artsupplieswenttolocalschoolchildren,andthereading
materialwenttothelocallibrary.
“Afterthispurge,I reorganizedeverything,andmy
studiobecamespaciousandmoreefficient.”

THEESSENTIALSKETCHBOOK
“Likea lotofartists,I’ma horizontalstacker,”saysMark
Mehaffey.“Icanfilleveryflatspaceavailabletome.Weeks
later,I canrememberwhereI putsomethingdown.Rosie,
mywifeandbusinesspartner,however,isaninveterate
picker-upper.IfI putanythingdowninthehouseand
expectit tobetherea dayortwolater,it’snot.Ithasbeen
pickedupandputaway.Drivesmecrazy!
“SoRosiehasbeenbannedfromtouchinganythingin
thestudio,evensomethingthathasbeeninthesameplace
forweeks.Driveshernuts!Havingsaidthat,I giveRosie
everycredit.I couldn’tdowhatI dowithoutherhelp.
“Theonethingthatreallydoeskeepmeorganized,
though,is mysketchbook.It’smyplacetofindoutif anidea
mightwork;toseeif a designis sound;toexplorevariations;
andtomakea connection.Mysketchbookkeepsmeontrack
andorganized.And,I alwaysknowwhereI putit down.”

Anne Hevener is the editor-in-chief of Artists Magazine,
Pastel Journal and Watercolor Artist. She’s in the (dreaded)
process of decluttering her editorial offi ce of years’ worth of
papers and fi les.

“I WANT TO KNOW WHERE


MY BRUSHES ARE AT ALL


TIMES, RIGHT DOWN TO


WHERE THE NO. 4 IS PLACED


VERSUS THE NO.6.”


— LAURIN MCCRACKEN


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