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Summary: Learn how to make sure your new art studio is efficient and organized with expert advice on how to set up an art studio from a professional artist in this free online instructional video clip.
"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. So, you've taken organizational concerns to heart and you want to make sure you keep all of your stuff nice and organized. There are a couple of things you can do to help yourself out. First off, an art cabinet. These are great. You can get these very cheap at certain Scandinavian arts dealers. You can also get them from a variety of places online and other cheaper discount stores. Something like this could range around anywhere from the cheapest, about thirty dollars to upwards of a hundred. Definitely, don't spend a lot of money on an art cabinet. Don't go--it doesn't have to be very, very fancy. Basically, it's a big wooden box with perhaps a shelf or two inside. But that's not all you can do to help keep organized. Small wooden boxes are great. You can see here how you can have a lot of different types of art supplies very easily separated, or you can have them, also a great space saver. Oftentimes you can stack them. So, this is especially if you--for you people out there who are dealing with constrained spaces, these are really great for organization. Now, if you have a little bit more room in your art cabinet, you can also look at getting big plastic tubs. These are great because, again, you can stick some wooden boxes inside them, and, of course, there is also room for other things here. I have lots of other face paints, oil paints, media, brushes, I mean all sorts of different things. This is primarily my big painting plastic tub. This is where I have most of my painting supplies that I use. So, definitely consider this, a couple of very easy things, get this for five bucks somewhere. They're very inexpensive. It's going to save you a lot of time and keep things nice and neat and organized in your art studio."
eHow Article: How to Organize an Art Studio