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ImagineNation News<br />
I use Photoshop to plan my next move when<br />
working traditionally, because it’s hard to see<br />
layers under the resin after prepping it for paint.<br />
I found these headphones at the bottom of a forgotten<br />
corner of the house. I have no idea who owns them,<br />
but they’re made by Skullcandy and sound amazing.<br />
The pastel figure drawing is a<br />
drawing demo from one of my art<br />
school instructors. Bill was always<br />
full of energy and ideas. He taught<br />
us that there were no rules in art you<br />
couldn’t break. This painting reminds<br />
me that the joy is in the process.<br />
The box next to my desk is filled with my “learning moments.”<br />
You know when you get to a point in a painting and just… nope<br />
it’s not going to work? Learning moments. I keep these around<br />
in case I can somehow use the material as part of new work.<br />
This is my wife’s side of the studio.<br />
The skylights provide plenty of<br />
natural light. I do my pour-overs<br />
here so I can seal it off and ventilate.<br />
Marc Scheff<br />
Light space Take a look around this artist’s bright studio and find out<br />
why he keeps a box of art ‘also-rans’ and ‘just-in-case’ creative tools…<br />
I live and work in<br />
Brooklyn. My wife is<br />
an abstract oil painter<br />
(when she’s not<br />
literally saving<br />
the world and ending massincarceration),<br />
so when we moved<br />
into our brownstone we converted<br />
the whole top floor into studio space.<br />
I feel so incredibly fortunate to work<br />
in this space with skylights and<br />
windows out onto… well it’s actually<br />
just a giant hole in the ground right<br />
now, but soon it’ll be into other<br />
people’s bathrooms and kitchens. If<br />
I’m not a big collectibles<br />
guy, but I’ve received a<br />
few as gifts. This is a<br />
favourite actor from an<br />
all-time favourite movie.<br />
I go up to the roof I can almost see<br />
Donato’s house. This is the thrill of<br />
New York living.<br />
My schedule varies, but if I have my<br />
way it starts with walking my son to<br />
school and then stopping at my local<br />
coffee shop to clear my head and get<br />
sketching. Head studies, thumbnails,<br />
and animals. This was actually the daily<br />
practice that led to the shift in my<br />
work almost a year ago.<br />
I’ve found, however, that my muse<br />
isn’t always a morning person. She<br />
arrives quite often at about 6pm, and<br />
stays through the power hours of 10 till<br />
midnight, when I’m most often in a<br />
flurry of productivity.<br />
I’m a little bit of a process junkie<br />
and fascinated with how our beliefs<br />
and habits affect our work, our<br />
relationships and our art. What you<br />
don’t see in the pictures is my audible<br />
library that’s filled with books and<br />
strategies on these subjects. The rest<br />
of the books are more often than not<br />
historical narratives, and of course<br />
there’s a healthy dose of sci-fi and<br />
fantasy, and surreal fiction in there.<br />
My days don’t end after dinner, but<br />
one of the things I love most about my<br />
24 August 2017