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Sunday, October 17, 2004

 
4:49 PM: closing [#] [0]

portland open studios yesterday: a recycled computer parts artist (with a chatty gardener husband), a furniture painter, a calligrapher (even if she did use more glitter than -god-, she had a marvelous carolignian hand), an encaustic artist (who we saw at last week's memorial service!), a trip to the vita cafe, and a digital photographer.

afterwards we took a trip to city liquidators, one of those crazy industrial buildings that lives under the maze of se bridges. they have incredible prices on used file cabinets and excellent prices on lots of other used furniture, including the largest drafting table i've ever seen, with drawers and hydraulic adjusting, for $300 (about what i paid for my current, much smaller drafting table). their flat file drawers, which is what we went to look for at the suggestion of one of the artists on the studio tour, are about half of any other flate files i've seen, but unfortunately, that means they're still $300 or $400 for a 4-drawer unit, which puts them out of my price range. they still make me drool. :)

portland open studios today: another furniture painter (the bright green studio in milwaukie), a natural collagist (with a martha stewart studio!), a clay sculptor (where i almost bought a very nice bowl!), 2 mezzo/mono printers, and a weaver.

so now that we've seen over 20 studios, on our own studio agenda is creating flat file shelves, paint and/or color, and a comfy space.