This is one of he things I used to do when I first started sketching back in 2015/2016. Then I had my phase of art bombing – leaving art on napkins in some cafes around 2016/2017 and maybe 2018. Today we had been to visit Anne’s mum and went down to Burlington Chine and Down …
Another quiet day for sales, it is what it is. I had quite a few good chats with visitors about various aspects of art including telling some about Art for fun restarting on Monday from 10 – based on the last two days I need an earlier night on Sunday and an early arrival at …
Today, I made a new window display stand from two smaller remains of pallet and various other offcuts from previous shop diy display pieces. Did it all go to plan straightaway? No, of course not. But of course I hadn’t planned it before I got to the shop today. I moved my larger window vinyl …
I didn’t rest physically today except this afternoon, but arty aspect rested. In the shop for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday for the next fortnight and plan is art for fun from 19th – need to come up with a risk assessment where choice and responsibility belongs to the customer.
Literally, my art today was a sketch drawn in fineliner of the view through the arch of Tilly Mead between Java and Swanage Bay Fish when we stopped for a coffee on our way back from the market this morning. Later I was looking at any business premises available locally as alternatives to where I …
I may not have been at the shop but today has involved an order, some web account admin and collecting a map to help with a boiler suit. So order – a lightweight artists chair using my SAA membership which is my art association membership for public liability etc. This will replace the garden chair …
The shop day was preceded by coffee and walk past coastal rowing regatta setting up on the beach. Drizzle this morning kept me inside initially then I drew on Watersports boilersuit outside for a bit. Later as the weather dried I spent more time outside. Some visitor / customers but a lot watched the rowing …
Using some pigment fineliners and then Posca markers today I have completed the first side of the sleeve with kayakers and canoeists on the Swanage side of Old Harry and Handfast Point. Then I mirrored the Old Harry rocks on the other side of the sleeve.I then added a variety of motorised watercraft seen locally. …
Visits to: The Blue Pool Tearoom / cafe for lunch – nicely refurnished Walk around The Blue Pool – lots of photos taken for potential work Sit on a bench dedicated to the previous owners after a hilly scramble up from the pool shore and sketch 2. Onto The Pink Goat in a Corfe Castle …
So today I sold some art and I started some new art. A6 postcard Sam Whaley who also belongs to Swanage Sailing club is a British sailing squad dinghy sailer. He competes in ILCA (Laser), RS Aero and Waszp (foiling dinghy), this weekend he won the 2021 National Championship for the Waszp and took some …