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Marla Baggetta PSA
Milwaukie, OR
| | (Wide Studio View): A wider look at the studio in action. Between filming lessons, preparing for workshops, and working on my own paintings, this space sees a lot of creative energy—and a fair amount of beautiful chaos. | | (Filming/Easel Area): My easel and filming station, with color studies lining the wall behind me. The overhead camera lets students see my pastel strokes up close during demonstrations—something that's hard to achieve even in live workshops. | | (Video Production Setup): This is where the teaching happens. I've built a full video production setup so I can create online lessons for students around the world through my website, | (Pastel Palettes): Walking into my studio and seeing this rainbow of pastels still takes my breath away. I arrange everything by hue, value, and saturation so I can find exactly what I need without interrupting my painting flow. | | (Brushes): My brush collection lives within arm's reach of my easel. I work in oil and acrylic as well as pastel, and I love having a variety of shapes and sizes ready to go—each one has its purpose. | | I live in Boise, ID, and I rent studio space in an older business complex. It's sort of an L-shaped room. Here is my working space, as seen from the doorway. | |
This is my working space, as seen from the opposite side. When I first got the space, I had hardly any furniture, and I tacked up big pieces of paper so I could have that little-kid freedom of drawing on the walls. As I acquired more furniture, I had to rearrange and sadly, now I can no longer reach it. I do keep two easels set up at all times. I like to work on more than one piece at a time so I don't bog down and completely overwork a painting.
| | Here is my favorite comfortable spot that I carved out of one corner of the room. This area holds my little library and faces the easels, so I can contemplate what I am working on, research things, do a little business...or take a very short nap... | | I have a tiny sink and a little countertop in my rented space! Having access to water makes everything so much easier and is one of the reasons I'm happy to have this space. This is also a handy spot to drop all those various things as I walk through the door, keeping them out of the working space. | | Here is a photo of my pastels. The ones in the cardboard trays are handrolled Richesons, and probably my favorites. The ones in the wooden trays are Great American pastels that were passed along to me; they are so old that they are round instead of square, however, they are still wonderful. The ones in the white boxes are a general mix, a little of everything, from NuPastels to Schminckes. | | Most of the storage mess is contained here. My husband and I found this piece of furniture at a thrift shop. It was a low dresser with drawers, which we reconfigured to become shelves and vertical storage for smaller items, like reference materials, pieces of glass, bits of mat board and the like. It works perfectly in this narrow space. | |
Henriette Wyeth (1907-1997)
Henriette Wyeth, daughter of N. C. Wyeth, moved into her own studio in Chadds Ford in 1927, a converted school house which would later serve as Andrew Wyeth’s studio. She painted portraits, still lifes and fantasies, managing the roles of artist, wife (of artist Peter Hurd), and mother.
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