#artists loft

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Welcome to the coolest, most colorful home in London, that was owned and decorated by Morag Myerscough, that sold for $4M.

Seriously, if I lived here, I would never sell it. Two huge white bear statues in the garage.

Coming up to the apt. via a stark white hall.

Isn't this a cozy colorful living room?

The living/dining room & kitchen are L-shaped.

Something or someone must've inspired the word "bastard" to be painted on the cabinets. What a colorful kitchen, though.

Lucky is the artist who display their own works.

Now, this is a library.

This looks like a studio.

Upstairs is a dark bedroom w/a tub and a large rooftop deck.

You can enjoy the enclosed part all year round.

But isn't the outdoor part wonderful?

Another separate studio.

Why would she sell this? I would stay here forever.

[cheerpark]

No matter how many Copic colors I accumulate, I'll never escape my black & white curse.

[mienar]

at the artist's loft

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[curiouscrux]

Loft's Tunic

The finished product! Loft is a Link from @bonus-links by @ezdotjpg. The weaving process is detailed here for the alpaca overtunic. The undertunic was hand sewed in linen, and the amber necklace is hemp. Pleated pants were from a past project. Sadly, I do not own a Goddess Harp, so a Turkish lyre will have to do.

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Much gratitude to one of my partners for driving me out to Huckleberry Reserve Faron Woods and taking pictures.

[huariqueje]

Loft -   Franziskus Wendels , 2019.

German, b. 1960 -

Oil, pigment, varnish on canvas , 200 x 150 cm.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Apparently, SoHo (although it wasn't called that at the time) was a haven for artists as early as 1941, when this picture was taken. The painter is Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889-1953), a modernist who also painted murals in the women's restrooms in Radio City Music Hall. Although he had lived in the U.S. since 1905, the government classified him as an enemy alien after Pearl Harbor. He was not interned as other Japanese-Americans were, but his bank account was frozen, his travel restricted, and he was prohibited from owning a camera or binoculars. Nonetheless, he created drawings for the American wartime propaganda effort. In 1948 he was the first living artist to receive a retrospective at the Whitney Museum.

Photo: Max Yavno via The Museum of Contemporary Art

[8bit-mau5]

What started out as a little doodle ended up being so much more, as to be expected when I put pencil to paper

Breaking in my new sketchbook with some quick sketches when I can’t sleep, but I liked the sketch of this one too much to not do anything abt it. Turns out this paper handles inks better than i thought too! So here’s a quick Jester, my fave of the Chaos Crew 🥺💙

Sketch + process under the cut!

[mewymarsher]

#FreezeIceWeek2024 Day 1: Winter!

#FreezeIceWeek

[swollenbabyfat]

I've been lucky to try some good quality watercolors in my life, and don't get me wrong there's definitely benefits to them, but I always come crawling back to my damn Artist Loft watercolors. kisses my pallet

[aurosoulart]

working on a New Year's dragon! 🐉

[wildchild-11]

Happy Nicktoons day! 🎈🎊🎉

I made Danny so hot!

[grooviestsadpapaya]

A lovely lofty boy! He belongs to @ezdotjpg and I adore him ✋😔💜!!

I was really interested in his lightning thing that he has going on so I played with lighting a bit and came out with this. I’m really proud of it!! The scars he has were also v interesting to draw :o

[vintagehomecollection]

Rooms by Design, 1989

[toyastales]

The appreciation of the female form is prevalent in this home.

[curiouscrux]

Tunic Weaving Process

Marking my second project on a rigid heddle loom, I finally got around to finishing my not-a-cosplay-I-swear tunic to be linked (heh) in the future.

(Edit: Final product here!)

This tunic splits the difference between the original reference image here, and the comic pages. The only noticeable factors are that the hem's curve is somewhat shallow, and that the sleeve details are three parts (as versus five).

The tunic shaping is also modified to be more... Tunic-y. That is to say, made of rectangles and straight seams—so no set-in sleeves, and a bit of a wider shape to account for the woven fabric type.

It will be accompanied by a linen under-tunic and hemp-amber necklace. Made because they all look nice together, but also separately.

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Starting out, I calculated how much yarn would be needed for the body (incorrectly), and set up all of my warp threads.

After my first project's hiccups, the warp threads were individually tied so as to minimize risk of uneven tension.

For whatever reason, I decided to curve the hem as part of the piece, rather than enforcing, trimming, and hemming to a curve. (This was also incorrect—or at least a bad move.)

The full, finished back piece is pictured above, and is a little more loosely woven than the front panel, but is still absolutely warm enough to justify material costs.

The neckline for the front was made in two parts starting at the split. The widest part of the neckline was essentially cut away. All fringe was woven in on the neckline (and the hem), and the shoulder seams were bound together with this method as well. Side seams were just back-stitched.

The neckline was crocheted with a lighter yarn as a border, and a faux closure was attached to match the reference.

As mentioned, the smart move would have been to curve the bottom of the tunic through enforcement, trimming, and hemming, so to make the front more even with the back, this is what I ended up doing, despite that it was... Already curved.

The sleeves deserved a gusset, especially because those aid a place that would normally be a weak point on regular fabric, and would be extra prone to pulling on something handwoven like this.

Finally, sleeve decorations were chain-stitched in the accent color to match the neckline.

It took several months of intermittent work to finish, but could have probably been less had the tall task of weaving in several hundred loose threads not daunted me so much.

It was made from alpaca, which I justify via my intention to wear this as it gets colder in the northern hemisphere, but also because I could not get my hands on hemp yarn (which would have made more sense in the context of the setting).

[gingerteaonthetardis]

gotta lock these three bitches in a room together so they can make each other worse. oh and kiss