I have long realised that my online presence can be a bit jumbled so I am going to use Autumn 2022 to work on: a) redeveloping this WordPress based business site into more than just a blog and make it more accessible to visitors b) restructure and organise AndyKnillArt.shop so that it works as the …
I have always been active online whether in my previous career as a teacher especially in the last 10 years of it. Also on social media. AndyKnillArt and AndyKnillArt Studio are covered by a number of bases online, hence my use of Linktr.ee as my web address to send people to as it allows people …
23 July 600 participants 03 August 700 participants 06 August 800 participants 23 August 900 participants 27 August 1000 participants Gobsmacked, very very happy and amazed that this many people have taken me up on the art for fun activity – yes it’s free but even so. This month over 340 people have taken part …
During Swanage carnival week Art for Fun was proving very popular – see last post re passing 700 participants. On theFriday (August 5th) we hosted 29 people. In a mad moment on Saturday August 6,final shop day of carnival week I made a sign challenging a record attempt to beat30 people in a day. It …
A drawing scheme that I am going to promote as part of the #artforfun offering this month and sharing my own and art for fun pieces on Twitter with the hashtag. Todays piece – observation at the beach cafe
I have previously mentioned that I,would be starting this new initiative and today Anne and I setup the firstGuest Artist exhibition in the studio / shop which opens to the public from tomorrow. A notice about the idea: August artist detail Jessica’s work Noe we wait for feedback from visitors.
This week Andrew Diprose published an interview we did recently in his publication Dorset Biz News, I shared it and today the story achieved 2nd most popular story of the week which was a great feeling.
Tomorrow I am back in school so between yesterday and today I put together packs of cards for four tree art based tasks that encourage the children to look at the images on 10 card designs of mine and draw some tree features for themselves. Also the boiler suit pictures to be drawn on the …
May has been a very slow month, unsurprisingly as the cost of living crisis deepens and art is in no way an essential item to be buying. The question in my mind would PAW see the usual art lovers out and about? Two days in and I have taken this month’s sales from my worst …
So, having put signs and banner up I essentially advertised the art weeks for Purbeck (PAW) a day early. Oh well, I have been marketing it for brochure distribution for the last month. This evening I was due to be on bar duty for the private view but the food stall also bought their own …