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Next Friday for my calligraphy study group we are planning an action-painting session. A couple years ago I had a conference workshop in painting with Charles Pearce (check out http://www.charlespearce.com/ ) and our group has wanted to try throwing paint on big canvasses together ever since, but it takes so much room we pretty much had to schedule it for the milder months when we could work outside. Thinking over how much room we would need for three or four people, and what to do in case of inclement weather, I thought of using the garage. But tacked up canvasses over the interior studs would still be hard to work on. We thought about it and discussed various possibilities.

Now Mr S has put up plywood on two of the interior walls of the garage. (The third wall is still devoted to storage of tools and pots and stuff, like the set of old encyclopedias I dragged home from curbside which have great collage pages in them. Yes, we have books even in the garage.) Number One Son helped paint the plywood front and back as a moisture barrier, and Uncle Mat helped with the drilling and sawing too. In just twelve hours it was renovated and the electrical service relocated too. With the small windows in each wall, and the garage door open to the north, we will have plenty of light. Maybe I won't come back in until the snow flies.