Today is day 9 of March Meet the Maker, an Instagram based event started by a lady called Joanne Hawker to encourage small creative energy businesses to share more background about themselves. Follow the hashtag #marchmeetthemaker and see such a wide variety of creative talents. Each day there is a prompt, except weekend days that …
Today I started a project for my self. Last year I had seen and started chatting online with El of Southbourne about her vintage workwear and looking at drawing on some of it. I bought myself a shop coat earlier in the year and today I started to add my work to it. I have …
Find my links as many years ago when blogging in education and using Twitter and other platforms I had an About me profile, this linktr.ee keeps showing up so I have decided to start my own account. Initially this is going to focus on my AndyKnillArt accounts but may extend out to the bricks and …
So, this is the title I am following as a hashtag on the @andy.knill Instagram account for the remainder of this month. There are a series of tasks set for most days of the month but which spaces at the weekend in case life means that posts are falling behind. The aim is for businesses …
Took part in my regular business network meeting this evening and as I am member offer of the month forMarch we did a brief two minute art for fun activity – have some,items from home and in two minutes create something, drawings of unicorns pre prepared, toilet roll figures, recycled packaging hat, bunny rabbit from …
I may not be drawing this week but I have been working through my @andythecourtyardstudio Instagram account and Tik Tok @andyknillart account by putting together clips of images from the Instagram posts sharing my portfolio that is available to buy. To date I have shared the: Printed postcards, greeting cards, hats, mini & miniature canvases, …
A fortnght of various emotional rollercoaster prompts that has decidedly impacted on my creativity – but finished a small surfers wooden box and now starting next commission on my 2021 list. Be warned this is a post of bits… Enjoying the joy of drawing trees again and the intricate patterns of overlying branches. We looked …
I am hoping to try a bit of creativity today but first my portfolio post today was hats on @andythecourtyardstudio on Instagram and also put a clip together on TikTok, for fun as much as anything else really. Please feedback and if you use Tik Tok what should I be doing to improve it, get …
Throughout lockdown I have changed my front window display in the shop most weeks so that passersby using Java for takeaway food and coffees and Swanage Bay fish (fishmongers) could have a variety of work to look at. After producing two draft pieces celebrating Pip Hare’s return to Dorset I decided today to put these …
Today I have branched out to try a new platform where I am out of my depth but will learn what to do, at least roughly, going forwards. Several people have suggested that I use video more in my publicity and marketing as it gives an opportunity to get more of my character across and …