Types of Art Studios

Series Summary

An art studio is the workroom of an artist or an artist and their colleagues. Art studios are often used for painting, pottery, sculpture, photography, graphic design, cinematography, animation, radio or television broadcasting or producing music. Sometimes an art studio is referred to as an atelier, especially in the 15th or 16th centuries. In modern times, the English use of "atelier" can refer to the Atelier Method, a training method for artists that usually takes place in a professional artist's studio.

So, you think you're an artist? Well, you may have art supplies, creative vision, and lots of paint, but do you have a studio? If the answer is no, don't be afraid, because this free video series will show you how to set up an art studio from start to finish. Our expert will teach you about choosing a studio space, protecting the studio walls, and how to arrange desks, stools, supplies, and all those other crazy things that artists do. You'll learn how to ventilate an art studio and how to keep everything organized as well! So get out your brushes, easels, and paints, because it's time they have a place of their own.

Video Transcript

"MATT CAIL: Hello. I'm Matt Cail and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you today how to organize and set up and tame your own art studio. The very first question you want to ask yourself when setting up your art studio is what type of art do you actually want to do. Different types of art and forms of art are going to require different things in terms of space and also furniture items you're going to be using. For example, do you just want to do a bunch of drawing arts or perhaps art where you're gluing or cutting out pieces of paper? Or would you rather do a lot of painting art where you're going to have lots of brushes and big canvasses that you're going to need to be painting on? Or perhaps you're just going to want to do, I don't know, some interesting very crazy arts and crafty type projects in your art studio. These type of questions are very important. So, before you rush headlong into going out to your art supply store and buying tons of paints and you go home and you're like, "Hey, I want to do lots of pencil art." stop for a moment and ask yourself whether or not you may actually want to just focus your art studio space and the decisions you're going to make in terms like one form of art or if you want to have multiple options like having lots of painting and pencil options all in your art studio."