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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. Now, it could be that your art
studio space-- you don't really care about it. It's okay. If you get stains on things,
do everything but knock down the walls, it doesn't matter. But if you actually want to
maintain the quality of your space and not get things ultra dirty, stained, and otherwise
ruined, there are a couple of very easy steps you can do to help protect your art studio
space from, shall we say, the damages of artistic creativity. First off, around your easel or
also your table or any area where you have paint and stuff--I mean, when your brush is
flicking motion, you're getting really into it, you can have lots of little paint splatters
which are going over your here and tapping the wall, so I'm slowly but surely building
up a layer. There are a couple of things I've seen artists put on their walls. First off,
I've actually seen some people, some artists, use old palettes and put those up on the wall
because, hey, they got tons of paint on 'em. That's not really going to hurt them anymore.
I've also seen people put plastic up or all over their walls, around their easel area,
to protect both the furniture and the walls, and sometimes the floor. This is a very cheap
alternative; just use your basic painter's drop cloth. It works for the paint you put
up on your walls; it'll also work for the art you use--the paint that you use to create
your art. Lastly, you can also go and get some very inexpensive rugs. These are really
great. You can get this on discount. Go to all select, like, a second-hand store. You'll
get lots of really, really cheap rugs. I do advise washing them or at least leaving them
out in the cold to make sure there's no mites or the little creepy crawlies on there. This
is another nice, very easy way which you can also make sure that your carpet does not get
tons of staining because if you're painting, I guarantee you, there will be mistakes, there
will be spills, so do the best you can in advance to cover things up.