Today, Wednesday August 9th Art for Fun at the studio passed the milestone of 2000 people taking part in the activity. Three to four return families today from 2022 and 2023.New families discovering the activity for the first time. It gives me great satisfaction to see participation rise and alongside it so have my art …
The school holidays have started and Swanage will start to fill up with more visitors. Next weekend we see the start of Carnival week – not just a parade for Swanage. For me the shop will continue to open on the same four days of the week and keeping to my regular hours of 10 …
As those of you who have followed the development of AndyKnillArt will have noticed for a while I have neglected the blog as I post regularly on social media mainly through https://www.instagram.com/andyknillartstudio . I have found the photo aspect of Instagram easy todo while working at the studio. Now I need to reset my use …
So I have just gone through my years photos and selected some aspects of the year as a record of some of the arty things I have done. Comments / feedback welcomed. If you are in the changing rooms a lot between chorus numbers what can you do? I sketched and they proved so popular …
I shut my studio today and am taking a winter break and a chance to go and seek some new inspirations. So, I decided to add a drawing on my studio front window backed by a vertical blind. The piece would be drawn using Posca markers. In the end I used a mix of 5M …
It is 2023. A new year and from February 1 I will start my 7th year as an artist. A dream woke me linked to creativity, a positive dream if slightly manic and bounding full of recognising ideas I have already had and of ideas going forwards for this new calendar year. Yesterday I hosted …
Yes, I have stopped wearing shorts and sandals this last week as it’s too cold sat in the shop to dress like that now, I know what a wimp. So the shop window display needed changing for Christmas run in. I need space inside and the flexibility to set up art for fun outside too …
‘Art for fun’ is the activity that I offer to others but I draw pictures just for fun too. Sometimes I gift them to a friend whose photos prompted an idea or I tried drawing the same subject as a child or someone said something and it just sparked an idea. Here are some recent …
Being a shopkeeper has sales needs to pay your bills. Today no good news on that side, however I had a good time hosting 8 people doing art for fun and at 230 participants in shop year 2 the figures are already edging towards 3 months ahead of the year 1 figures. So, the first …
So a quiet studio day. One youngster aged around 2 drew for Art for fun and his mum bought some items. Another customer bought two cards apart from that today I drew on more paper bags for the shop and posted latest piece to my printer for new Christmas card design. I sat outside until …