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    MarcF
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        I’m new to watercolor painting – I’ve been working in oils only 9 months – but I’ve begun watercolor painting now and I’m enamored of it. Many things I love, but to get to my question – what do you do with all your work? I have no room left on my walls because my oils are hanging all over. And I can produce watercolors so fast – I don’t know what to do with them. I think they’re good or I’d stick them in a drawer or round file them. There’s a book with plastic sleeves I saw at Hobby Lobby but it only holds 12 x 17 and the watercolor paper I have is 12 x 18 so I’d have to cut a half inch off each side and I don’t want to.
        So what do you do?
        I might want to paint all day every day – but what to do with all the work?
        A perennial problem for artists, I imagine.
        I have many more paintings to paint, than I have wall space to hang them once they’re painted.

        #875778
        Kaylen
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            https://twitter.com/gurneyjourney/status/772924491383046144
            thats one way to deal with them , but I would just pin them over the oils

            Kaylen Savoie
            https://www.savoieartist.com/
            At least twice a year,paint something better than you ever painted before.

            #875776
            virgil carter
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                The best way to store and retrieve watercolor paintings. Often well conditioned used files may be found at architect’s and engineer’s offices, as well as office supply stores.

                Sling paint,
                Virgil

                Sling paint,
                Virgil Carter
                http://www.virgilcarterfineart.com/

                #875781
                dustlilac
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                    Yes, your idea of bags is the best one I could come up with for my own stuff. I get mine the correct size at clearbags.com, the crystal clear ones. (However it’s a good idea to paint to standard frame size, so you might end up cutting the paper down away)

                    I stick works in progress into a Grip-A-Strip Display Rail and the rest get stored in a binder together with notes. The advantage is that it’s super quick to swap them out and the bags are completely clear and protect the work. Just never ever put the work in the bag before it’s bone dry.

                    #875782
                    dustlilac
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                        Oh yeah, and if you sell your sketches you can pack them in the bags too.

                        #875774
                        pa-paw
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                            The best way to store and retrieve watercolor paintings. Often well conditioned used files may be found at architect’s and engineer’s offices, as well as office supply stores.

                            Sling paint,
                            Virgil

                            Gobbles up your floor space, but it is most likely the best solution for safe keeping your drawings and watercolors.:)

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                            #875777
                            virgil carter
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                                Stack two of them on top of one another and you have enough storage for many years of painting.

                                And you don’t have to wonder about what to do with all those plastic bags full of paintings.

                                Sling paint,
                                Virgil

                                Sling paint,
                                Virgil Carter
                                http://www.virgilcarterfineart.com/

                                #875775
                                pa-paw
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                                    Stack two of them on top of one another and you have enough storage for many years of painting.
                                    at to do with all those plastic bags full of paintings.

                                    Sling paint,
                                    Virgil

                                    ——————or, place it under a large work/craft table to save space.

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                                    #875784
                                    MarcF
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                                        Everyone thanks for reply.
                                        The solar powered art destroyer looks very environmental, being solar powered and all, but the open fire and the resultant heat, ash, and carcinogens would be far more undesirable than even my worst painting. And they can be bad. But not bad enough to increase global warming and air pollution. But thanks.
                                        I know those flat files. I worked in mechanical drafting and engineering many years. If I had the floor space for one of those great, but I don’t They are ideal for storing any paper media. Imagine my astonishment when all the drawings I had done – and my fellow designers and engineers – all that documentation went into the shredder one day. It was all converted to digital. Who can deny the advantage of digital media? Especially in a multi user environment, everyone contributing. But there was something about all those physical drawings – some of them from the 30’s and 40’s.
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                                        I have a storage room next to my apartment. I went in today to get something out – there’s a window, it’s kind of open and airy. Lot’s of wall space. I’ll just pin the watercolors to the walls. After awhile the walls will be covered. It will be delightful. Of course I’m risking my paintings but better than just burning them.

                                        #875779
                                        Kaylen
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                                            Actually for storage I use the files like Virgil showed, I have 45 drawers of them in three sizes , I also organize my paint in these, I stack them 3 x5 high, and there is still room on top for more gator boards and mat boards, and backing boards

                                            Kaylen Savoie
                                            https://www.savoieartist.com/
                                            At least twice a year,paint something better than you ever painted before.

                                            #875783
                                            Ted B.
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                                                Uline.com sells all sorts of clear plastic sheets, sleeve and zipbags. They also have storage and shipping boxes in myriad sizes. I use white boxes that sit in my bookcase, some flat, some upright.

                                                https://www.uline.com/BL_1404/White-Tab-Locking-Literature-Mailers
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                                                I used to use the architects’ flat files for my architeural drawings. But repeated opening and closing the drawers can cause the drawings to rub as the contents shift front-and-back. Depends on whether you are an amateur with an archive, or a professional artist with an active portfolio of works for-sale. They take up a lot of room, and they’re heavy and horribly expensive new.

                                                Radical Fundemunsellist

                                                #875780
                                                Kaylen
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                                                    this topic has come up before, seems I remember many people use large flat plastic storage containers. such as Rubber made etc…the type you might store linen in under the bed

                                                    Kaylen Savoie
                                                    https://www.savoieartist.com/
                                                    At least twice a year,paint something better than you ever painted before.

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