Usually I have most of my meals in front of my laptop, browsing through the fashion spot, daily blogs, enjoying the latest couture collections and latest editorials as much (or maybe more) than the food I eat. Just kidding! Anyway, when I saw this fashion spread for Air France Madame with the back of paintings on the background I thought of the spring/summer Dolce&Gabbana ads: the action happens also in a painting atelier/workspace. However something seemed off: the sets are way too clean and perfectly put together for a usual painting workspace. Usually, in most ateliers, there’s a mess. Color everywhere, canvases, brushes, furniture and so on! So, I thought that next day I’ll photograph the space where we work-paint-create at school (The Art University in Timisoara, Romania), just so you see the difference between fashion and reality (”Oh, there’s a difference between fashion and reality? You don’t say!”).

There’s not much space here, is there? Also, I wore some of my clothes from my latest collection (spring/summer 2008) today at school: the gray shirt-dress and the pink plaid cropped jacket. Fortunately, I didn’t stain them with oil colors!

We are currently having exams at our atelier/paining classes. Imagine my astonishment when I heard the them/subject for your last exam at the study of color: “Room 204; Our Workspace - Interior“. I mean, I just thought of “the painters workspace” and then we get to interpret it any way we want for the exam: that’s pretty awesome, no?

This is the picture of the atelier (top) from which I started my composition (bottom). Color-wise, I chose to go with the warm-cold and complementary contrasts (orange-blue; purple-yellow). This painting is not finished, as we have another day of exam tomorrow.

Oh, and we have to clean up the atelier once we finish our exams for this semester. That is way harder than painting, trust me!