Monday – no shop but some art. During a visit to Java in Swanage for lunch I sketched the view from my table, the cafe is due to move location so this records the current view. Later we drove down to Upwey where I collected my latest print and cards order and also ordered some …
Today saw: Shop front progress The rotten ledge was replaced, new upper opening windows. This overran the time slot as the ledge / sill was harder than expected. I had moved the shop stock away from the window yesterday afternoon and this afternoon I got to reset the shop to its former position. Art piece …
So I have had the shop open the last two days and business has been relatively slow but I have also been keeping busy. So both days we have had a dry forecast, Tuesday we had drizzle in and off which meant the art for fun tables were set up then the work moved in …
Art ideas passed through my head today, some posts on Social media including seeking reviews on Google / Yell / Trip Advisor alongside comments already collected from the ‘Art for fun’ exercise book.
I often get asked when I started doing art and to be honest in its current format 2015 when I started to keep a sketchbook and braved the world of Urban Sketching – first time out this week 2015, Borough Market, Southbank, London on a Saturday lunchtime – proof that drawing can help you to …
So today I did an overdue task that is a mixture of admin. And colouring in – creating a new colour chart for the markers and a stocktake of which working markers I have. This is now useful in two main ways: 1) What pens and colours I have available to me for the art …
A very very quiet day again so I kept busy with a range of tasks. I completed the marker wallet checks – between the 10 folders I have 182 colours with working markers for each. I have audited my prints to identify ones to order reprints of. Unpacked last box used to transport item from …
Started the work day posting off a print ordered by a family who are keen on my tree pictures. Visitors today included Gilly Hopson a fellow Artisan from the beach huts. One customer bought some cards so maintaining no zero sales days so far, but so quiet it may well come soon. Work on window …
So the final day prompt is risk. I drew pictures of three activities I do which have an element of risk in them: – Lino cutting, with the risk to cutting fingers – sailing and the swinging boom which I have shown conclusively in my first two years seems very attracted to my head – …
So penultimate drawing for Inktober and the prompt was slither, I thought snakes and so did a number of other artists whose work I saw. I drew alongside two early art for fun participants today. Today in Swanage we had the second annual trick or treat run by businesses in the town – it was …