I like old stuff. My computer equipment sits on a pioneer table and a harvest table from the early 1900's. My rapidographs and some other rarely used art stuff are stored under the harvest table (not shown) in a wooden bren gun ammo box from the first World War. I think you can see it in the pic from Part 1, and also you can see my Hudson Bay Trapper Point wool blanket from the 1940's which is awesome. I sit at my drawing table on a surprisingly comfortable cottage chair from the 1950's. And I used to draw on a huge Leonar Italian drafting table from about 1965-69. I swapped it out for the small table I'm using now because I had to use a really really tall stool to sit at it and that made it hard to reach all the other stuff I like to have at hand. The Leonar is stored in the basement, I halfway restored it by refinishing the tabletop and painting over the institutional grey base. I will try and set it up at the new studio--we'll see how it goes because the space is quite a bit smaller.
Some things to note from this photo, starting left to right: A3 scanner with cord dangling down to computer. I used to care a lot about what was in my computer and would put them together myself, but I really couldn't tell you what's in this. I bought it already put together and it works. I had a bad experience with Alienware customer service about 8 years ago and it put me off caring about what I was using. Next there's the photo of one of my dogs in a cowboy boot frame which cracks me up. Behind that is a creepy head I check for lightingsometimes when I'm drawing a face. I've named him Pin. (You probably need to be a Canadian horror movie buff to get that). There's two monitors there, one LCD one CRT. I have a Wacom tablet. Oh, there's a pretty sweet
Playboy club ashtray in a 1970's shade of orange. Sitting on the external hard drive is a nostalgic "professional" badge from the first Wizard World that I got a pro badge (they'll give those out to anyone apparently!). On the right there's a picture of the best Newfoundland dog in the world,
Neptune and a classy scorpion encased in acrylic.
Wow, I move exactly one week from today. Time to start packing.
