 Hey guys. I wanted to just say a big huge thank you to my patrons. I'm so excited I want to bring you a little video giving you a behind-the-scenes tour of my little Monet cafe studio So let's go into the studio. Come on. All right So here I am in my studio and I'm just gonna do a little walkthrough a special. Thank you to my husband Todd behind the camera Thank you, honey Hi, so come on in and I'm gonna show you around First I want to just give you kind of a view of it's just a small 10 by 13 room And I have really made it work for My purposes I've got a lot in a small space So I thought I'd just give you a couple of things that I think work well for a home art studio I'm sharing my awesome desk here that I love but I thought I'd do this voiceover because I realized it's discontinued But if you could find any sort of a craft table that has drawers that would be awesome paper cutter over here This is where I film all of our I edit all of the Monet cafe videos on my Mac computer Many of you know, I just had to get another Mac computer But I love all the drawers in this but storage is the key and Practical storage is the key. So I'm just gonna point out some of the things that I love I love the little IKEA shelves I can put things up in a way out of the way I also love if you film over here these little IKEA Magnetic boards are amazing for just keeping temporary art that you haven't got Stored yet in bags or anything. I'll move this way now. Oh, this is actually back here I'm this is where I do my other side of my brain my bookkeeping business And if I'm feeling creative, I don't even want to look at it So these little this is a Walmart tablecloth by the way with little hooks. So anyway over here is where I keep a lot of my Paintings in there once I have them Put in their little bag. I do have a video on how to do this I love to keep them in the little baskets kind of according to size again, it's all about storage and This is a piece of furniture that was in our house before it flooded and it has worked great I love open basket systems where I can see everything if they're in drawers or with cabinet doors You can't see what you need and I like to keep everything very practical I also love this is just like my little working studio set of pastels And as you see, I don't have the huge studio set that many people have I made it work with less So not that I don't want more But I love having a little light by my pastels because you know light is everything with color And so it really helps me to kind of see the actual colors My standing easel. I love to have things accessible. So I have my most used things I'm left-handed so it's nice to have my pastels over here But my most used things my pencils my charcoal's my Course my pastels my inks my everything that I use most is over here again nice little storage systems I have all my brushes back behind here. I always keep my ruler handy And on my easel, you know, that's pretty self-explanatory But I love to have a lot of little clips and things will accessible I keep my little pipe foam insulation Of course, you got to keep your little entertainment down in the floor here of your little pets that really keep you inspired And then I'm not going to make this part very long then I have um I love this little thing from IKEA. I keep all of my papers in here I do have bigger papers that I don't have here more storage Labels do help on your storage. So you know what everything is paint pastels scissors tools watercolor juice pastel pencils Also, I'll grab this and bring it out here. These things are awesome I know a bunch of you guys probably have this already I love these little rolling storage things because when I need to do something like for an underpainting I've got my neo color wax pastels my ink tint splots All kinds of things that I would use for an underpinning So it's real nice to just pull this over. I got this at Walmart But I think they have some at Michaels now that actually is better than this one They have a lot of little hanging things where you can hang scissors and think maybe even paper towels on them so I love that and Anyway, so that was a fast and furious tour through the studio I like my sitting easel too, and I thought I would share I love this whole thing from IKEA You can use it to store or put paintings on but I love that I can hang it Over my easel and put my if it's a reference photo if it's my iPad on it. That all works really great This is where I film. This is where it all happens I usually set my camera way back here and I am I would say I'm the I'm the videographer of the film or the videographer of the talent and the editor It's crazy. So thank you, honey for doing the filming right So that was a quick and crazy dog-filled moment studio tour But right here is where I started sharing this week's challenge But I'm going to do that in a separate video and I want to try to do a weekly challenge to my patron members and I don't know if I can do it every week, but Stay tuned because I will be sharing what this week's painting challenge is man. I love you guys Thank you patrons for just being you and supporting me Happy painting