![]() One of my favorite things about it is that it’s on strong casters, so I can wheel it around easily. Lastly, the long vertical bin on the right is for all those oversized pieces that never fit anywhere. I wanted two horizontal shelves for my large paper and work-in-progress pieces, so these are 3ft wide. In between the two vertical storage bins are my long and flat shelves. ![]() I have wood panels, thin canvases, and thicker canvases in these. This allows me to store various sizes of art supplies and keep them all organized. The bottom vertical bins are 4ft tall, while the top vertical bins are 3ft tall. I chose to make my storage bin 4ft wide x 6ft tall. I sketched out a plan and gave it to our handyman to build. I did some research on Pinterest and found some ideas that would work for the sizes that I liked to paint on. After years of having stacks of canvases all around my studio, I finally decided to have a custom-built storage bin to store my canvases and wood panels. The longer I painted, the harder it became to organize my art supplies. If you store them like this permanently, just remember to lift those babies off the floor with some scrap wood pieces. When I first bring home new canvases, they typically get stacked like this until I make room on my storage bin. Many canvases have been ruined because they sat in liquid for too long! The reason to keep them off the floor is because there is always the inevitable flood from the water heater breaking or the accidental coffee mug to the floor. In my first art studio, which was a converted garage space, I kept my canvases off the floor with 2×4 wood scraps and stacked them vertically in about three different areas. When your mom owns a framing gallery (mine did), you learn quickly that large art pieces always get stored vertically! The chance of damage is too great if they are stacked on top of one another horizontally. Store & Organize Art Inspiration (paper and computer files)Ĭanvases & Wood Panels 1. Store & Organize Stencils & Stamps (coming soon) Store & Organize Finished Art Pieces (coming soon) Store & Organize Paintbrushes, Pens/Pencils & Markers Look for these posts coming soon: Store & Organize Art Supplies: Paint Tubes & Bottles To view all posts in this series, click the following links: Storing and organizing your art canvases, paper, and sketchbooks can be easy and decorative too! Shove this forcibly through the shoulder strap holes and tie it off.Have you ever came home from your favorite art supply store, after the “mother-sale-of-them-all” and wondered where you were going to stash your new goods? How can you ever get all these art supplies organized? We all know there will be no beautiful art without canvases, sketchbooks, and paper. Fold the over hang over to get a wider strip with no sticky spots or frayable edges. Experiment with the orientation of this loop and the shape of the knot until it functions properly.įor the shoulder strap, take two very long (depending on where you put your holes this length will change, mine ended up at ~4') strips of duct tape, lay them together with a little over hang on each side. Don't tie this loop, just make a U of the right length, lay one end over the other, and tape together. With the upper ribbon make a loop that goes around the knot in the lower ribbon and holds the flap closed. With the lower latch ribbon, make a knot that uses the entire ribbon except for a few inches. Insert the end of one of the 12" long ones through the lower latch hole, and the other through the upper latch hole, tie both of these off. Insert the ends of the 8" long one through the handhold holes, and tie on the opposite side. Make three strips of duct tape ribbon, one ~8" and two ~12" long. This doesn't look very good, but that's what Duct Tape is for! If your cardboard is helpful, the internal structure of it should help keep your lines straight. Cardboard looks awful with blood stains.įold the cardboard such that the cut side is on the outside of the hinge. Remember to never cut directly towards yourself of others. Use your sharp knife (carefully) by slicing along your lines only half way through the cardboard to make a hinge. I made it ~2" because i'm going to be putting a LOT of drawings in here.Īfter the bottom, there's another paper-width section, then the top (the same size as the bottom), and the flap (whatever's left over). The next section will be the bottom of the portfolio, so it's dimensions depend on the width of what you expect to be putting in your portfolio. (Pro tip: If you have the pad of paper you can use it as a measurement and a straight edge simultaneously by lying it on your cardboard and matching the long edge to the edge of your cardboard.) Measure the width (short side) of the pad of paper, board, artwork you'll be putting in your portfolio and mark that distance in from the sort side of your cardboard. The first step is to bend your cardboard.
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