839 High Street, Second floor
I’m moving into a new studio space in December. It is 6000 sq ft in a warehouse above a furniture outlet on at 850 42nd Ave near High Street & 880 in Oakland. Here it is full of furniture. One of the many cool things about this space are the forklifts, so moving shouldn’t be to bad. I’m just going to get a truck with a lift and load it up with a pallet jack, drive it over, and they can lift it up to the second floor with the forklifts. Brilliant!
Its a bigger space, and I’m looking forward to doing some large pieces, including one similar to the butterflies I posted last month, but with 20,000 butterflies. It’s going to be fairly large.
The space is going to have a figure drawing area with public sessions in that corner by the windows, and a big screen print shop called Faultline Press with 18 foot walls for showing off some giant paintings and prints. I’m expanding my panel and canvas business, Mission Blue Studio, and will be setting up a nice little shop with some awesome new framers tools and a really nice table saw.
It’ll be ready for occupation in 2 weeks, and I’ll definitely be posted more photos soon. I’ll have some large studios for rent to painters working big and some smaller ones for screen printers. I’ll have some workshops and open the space up for people to get in and use the equipment, or draw from a model with natural light.
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