To put art earnings in context I joined Purbeck Artisan Yard in March 2018, 13 months into my new job as an artist so my work would be available all year round. I left the Yard in October 2020 as my commitment to having a shop in Swanage meant I had to balance up relative …
While in insomnia patch between 04:00 and 06:30 this morning I did a survey for a local country park. it was on Survey Monkey and I then read a report from them about how a variety of businesses were adapting in the US to Covid 19 – a key aspect was seeking feedback from your …
Today was another dry day, I sat outside all day and drew for quite a bit of it. The official prompt for a inktober today was “stuck” but to be honest, I wasn’t stuck at all as I worked on four pieces straight off this morning. Firstly I used the photos I had taken on …
So today’s Inktober prompt was watch and I did three small sketches based on that. The shop morning was good working with Jacob acting as my videographer who is making me a digital film piece to advertise the shop. He got me to draw some line work and then add colour with some interesting angles …
Tuesday = a shop day. So the start of the shop day is setting up, getting signs out and setting up for Art for fun table(s). As the forecast today was a dry yet breezy day I set up two possible drawing areas – one in the shop in front of the original art wall …
So Purbeck Art Weeks has drawn to a close, Rollington Barn has been packed away, art collected, sales paid for and May return for 2022. For me personally it combined with a new shop in a new location and my best sales at Rollington Barn with 54 cards sold, it was a shame not to …
I did my stewarding duty this morning and also a sketch while we were quiet in the morning. Chatted to some other artists and walked around in the Watersports boilersuit which proved quite popular. This afternoon walked in Swanage, followed the young people’s parade to finish the Planet Purbeck Festival and chatted to more acquaintances. …
I set myself the difficult target of opening the shop from 10 to 5 on 14/16 days of the art festival in Purbeck. The other 2 days of the 16 in total include me doing a duty as a steward at Rollington Barn, the festivals main exhibition. Today at 5pm I shut the shop and …
Sorry,didn’t blog last night as by time I got home from the shop we went off to the wedding of two friends and once home sleep was needed. So day 7 was generally quieter in terms of visitors – good reason the early forecast proved wrong and the day became very sunny, hot and like …
Evening, a busy day. I woke early to see a fabulous sun rise and a calm bay So I decided to go kayaking, I was on the water at 07:00 and went out to Peveril Point, then across to the pier, across to the banjo pier, up to the north end of the bay then …