I managed a hobble up to my Summer studio over the past couple days.

Here are some blue eyes I've been working on just to get back into the swing of the space. The smell of oils help to enliven the place.

My Summer studio is on the second floor of a boat house on our property.

Here is one corner of that attic space I use to paint. It's horribly messy now, but that is in part because I thought my new studio space would be ready down below.

This space does have a nice view, but it's of the other direction towards the small harbour. You can see the view here that you would see sitting at my table and easel. The sun is very bright so the contrast is a bit odd in the photos.

This is the view out that window. Lovely, surely, so I am not complaining.

And if I turn my head to the left, I get this little snippet of view from the skylight window.

However, as I said, this is a large boat house. Thus, where my current Summer studio can be found in the attic space of this building, right outside the door, by the stairs I take up here, is the old sail loft. It is a long space where sails and other boat things used to be stored. And on the end of that long space was a large set of doors that opened out to the sea and really, to a three story drop. I used to have these open all Summer and the adjacent door to my Summer studio and the cool sea air would rattle through making all sorts of lovely noise and making wonderfully cool.

It wasn't safe, these doors that opened to nothing but a three story drop so we had it closed in this Winter when we were beginning the work that would lead to my new studio space. Then that had to stop, because our dear handyman passed away.

And it wasn't until this Summer that I realized just how much that cross breeze from those doors kept my Summer studio cool. Now, however, we have had to put in this window air conditioner and as the ceilings are quite high, it is working hard.

Where the new studio will eventually go is reached by another set of stiars.

If you were to go back down the stairs of my Summer studio to ground floor there is another set of stairs that descend deeper, as the boat house is built on a slope. And this front slope, facing the sea, is where I want my new Summer studio. It used to hold two large 30+ boats, back in the day, but those have long ago sold back in the day when the family lived a bit better than we could ever manage ourselves today.

Here is the set of doors on the boat house floor that still exist. These were going to be replaced with new windows and doors. You can see how foggy they are and that is not foggy weather, but in fact the ruined old glass doors from years of salt water and windstorms. So this foggy view here:

Has this on the other side of it. You can see why we need new doors and windows.

And look at all the lovely daisies. This path would be mown and I'll probably install some wooden stairs down to the beach here. Someday...

And so this all leaves me back to my old Summer studio, now much warmer with the sound of an air conditioner instead of the sea breezes, but I cannot complain (although I guess I am a bit right now).

Now, besides the increased heat and the need for the window airconditioner, this old Summer studio is a mess. I have shelves disassembled and random things piled about as I thought, last Autumn, that this time this year I'd be moving things down below to my new studio. Yet, it sits a mess as well, undone.

What can you do?

I will work in my little corner here and as the Summer goes on I'll set up some things again, move my big table into the center of the room so I can have some of my printmaking things set up and so on.

I just waned to share this space in it's current state with you and to show I am managing much better with my healing toe. I hope to be doing more fun 'play' up here messing with some printmaking again and really just other fun projects I like to attempt in the Summer when it's warmer and I have space to be messy.

I will share more studio posts as I rearrange and also as I begin making more fun things.

I think I'll close with this odd little vignette that occurred because of random piling of things last Autumn getting ready for the move that did not happen. But, it has a certain creepy charm that just suits me and my studio aesthetic I think.

I hope you have a lovely productive day. Make time for plans, but realize they will always need to change. Just take lemo moments and try your hardest to make some lemonade.

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