Alaskan Raven Studio

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Claude

September 1, 2019 by Raven

Bear painted wildly on canvas with many of the colors from Autumn.
Blue-clawed Claude
18″ x 24″ $1200.
sold
painting by Raven on canvas

Claude left in the last week of May for Texas! He is excited for this new adventure. One of my Ravenista’s purchased him for a gift for a friend. Isn’t that the best kind of present? Claude is looking forward to greeting his new Bear-Tamer every day and staying wild.

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I love Mondays!

April 14, 2014 by alaskanraven

Walking into a delightfully messy studio.
studio

studio2

The large sheet of Arches watercolor paper is calling out to me. I am going to be working on that this morning. Excited to try out the images that are bouncing around in my head.

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Balancing Opacity and Transparency

February 27, 2010 by alaskanraven

What does your studio look like? I love to look at pictures of artists studios. I’ve seen hundreds. Historical artists and current artists. Paints, palettes, brushes, canvas makes me want to paint and it gives me ideas on how to organize my studio.

My studio. It’s not as organized as it could be. I would do more work if it were more appealing. I read the tweets. “Cleaning up my studio… “ Those words challenge me when I read them on blogs, posts and facebook pages.

I finally jump in and take the challenge. Working on piles of things in the studio a little at a time. Sorting through the things that I never use but might some day. I HAVE to keep those things. Need more baskets and more places to store things. Making order out of the chaos or is it now ordered chaos? Doesn’t matter. I now have a more organized and appealing room. I’m being ‘transparent’ and showing photos of my ‘new’ studio in this post. It doesn’t look like this now. This ordered chaos is documented but be assured that this studio is already comfortably untidy and has some appealing piles and work going on now.

My easel is sturdy and easily movable. It would benefit from a taller ceiling. The oak flat files are a huge help in organizing, storing and protecting artwork and materials. I purchased these from my friend Phil and it turned my studio into a much more functional room. My four year old granddaughter has one of the drawers. She knows which one is hers. It stores her paintings and painting supplies.

The other side of the studio is organized in a more workable way as well. The table in front of the window is the place to work on small drawings or paintings or gaze out of the window and watch the birds play in the aspen trees. The couch is the best place to journal or work on the laptop computer. The fish pillow makes it more cozy. Portfolios, matted prints are in the large basket, hats and bags for plein air painting hang from the wall and coat rack. Ken’s bear poster watches the activity. LJ’s print offers inspiration. Makenzies painting “Play” promises future painting sessions with her.

Nothing inspires me to work like the collection of brushes silhouetted by the window light. Pottery and brushes were made for each other. Get the paint, palette and canvas.

I have to get to work and Paint More!

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Shipment arrives

“Sterling, look at that!” “Look at what, Felix?” “That huge box. From Canada.” “Looks like the artist received another shipment of Kroma paint. Watch, she’ll spend the rest of the day arranging it in her studio. All those tubes of paint go in some sort of order.” “Paint? What is that?” “Paint is color. She […]

Edges are important

“Sterling, What is the artist doing now?” “What do you mean, Felix?” “She spends lots of time brushing paint on the sides of her painting. The edges. You know what I mean?” “She makes changes on it when she changes the front of the painting. The sides appear to be important to her.” “But why?” […]

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Alaskan Raven Studio
PO Box 80231
Fairbanks, Alaska 99708
USA
alaskanblackbird@yahoo.com

 

Represented by:
Well Street Art Co.
1302 Well Street
Fairbanks, Alaska
907 452-6169

Stephan Fine Arts
939 West 5th Ave.
Anchorage, Alaska 99501
USA
(907) 274-5009
http://www.stephanfinearts.com/

more about Raven

I ventured to Alaska before there was an oil pipeline and fell in love with the gnarly spruce trees, intense weather and mountains I could touch. Very different from the landscape in St. Louis. I was looking for different. The spruce trees: those scraggy, wizened, lanky conifers danced onto the first page of my sketch […]

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