Today started with a walk on the beach before work and another reference picture to help with my current panorama project. Coffee pre work at Java and very soon after my new purchase arrived and was fitted and not the shop has a sign all the time outside. I am still using the studio flag …
Well everyone it is the final day 31 of Marchmeetthemaker 2021. Looking back at the prompt sheet it is actually ‘Looking forwards’ but I have posted as “The future”. Before I focus on how this applies to me I have direct messaged Joanne Hawker who created this event to thank her because after the last …
Today’s MarchMeettheMaker prompt for day 12 is “In use”, I have seen others show photos from customers where their art has been hung or displayed. Of course as I draw on things I thought they would be better examples for me. So,… Robin’s hat featured the yacht that he sails off Studland Bay, Captain Pugwash …
When I came to art I planned to do my own drawings, the idea that someone would ask me individually to draw something in particular for them seemed unlikely and I wasn’t sure with my damaged mental health I would cope with client demands. Then after my first sale I was commissioned to draw some …
How do you dress to serve customers? Some chain stores have staff uniforms, some shops sell clothing and wear the product. Some dress to keep warm or cool. One of the aspects of selling my art that I have embraced over the last three years is to maintain my sense of humour and wear outfits …
This is just a musing post. Obviously, with the second lockdown of the year the shop I share can not open as art can’t be described as essential. So that leaves the dilemma of how do you attract an audience to buy from you when the shop door is closed? This was my first account …
When I started being an artist I took part for three years in an event called Artisans on the beach in Swanage. Every December we would hire a beach hut from the town council for the month and just intoJanuary. This year’s event has been cancelled linked to covid-19 and now that I have the …
In September I posted “Arty things in the pipeline” . Everything has come to pass. I am now booked to deliver four sessions for Art Workshop in January 2020. The biggest change is that on Saturday November 2nd I got the keys to Unit 7, Tilly Mead, 1-5 Commercial Road, Swanage BH19 1DF. This address …
Last month I shared my new pieces which are available from the Purbeck Artisan Yard. September has become traditionally the end to my boat season duties by the river Frome in Wareham. Recently I have sold more prints – framed and mounted versions which has been very encouraging. In the next fortnight I will return …