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December 2, 2020

Wednesday 2nd December and the shop reopens after a second lockdown

Yesterday’s preparations paid off with a welcoming shop that was commented on by a number of visitors today. Here are the decorations with lights on making the place more welcoming. So card sales, a set of markers with follow up art techniques chat offered when pens are given as lives locally. I also offer back …

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November 28, 2020

How you learn new things while completing commissions

Today I have done work on my two current commissions. One is a local landscape and overlooks a town. The other is a hat and references interests and career of the intended recipient (not the client). I have worked in fineliners and ProMarkers today on the landscape and last night ordered some replacement pens to …

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November 27, 2020

Day five of @Justacard indie week

Black Friday for larger retailers (mainly) and a reiteration of how people can buy from me online but also that the shop and I will be ready to welcome visitors again from Wednesday and I can offer a Happy Sales dance – most people scared off by man in hand painted boiler suit and coloured …

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November 22, 2020

How to appeal to more customers online?

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 …

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November 20, 2020

What shall I use to draw on clothing?

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 …

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November 19, 2020

Christmas cards, local free delivery and maps

Today saw three aspects of my art business: First I completed the online order from yesterday evening by collecting the greetings cards needed from the shop. They were two from my Christmas card series of Santa over Purbeck and Santa over Dorset All of the above cards are £2 each (£1.80 in November with 10% …

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November 17, 2020

Drawing on hats…

So I have one commission left to complete and it is another hand drawn hat design. I started this new idea during Lockdown 1.0 with my own logo pith helmet. The first design was very simple and linked to the logo I already had. So, I had in fact done a design before I got …

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November 15, 2020

The power of feedback

Drawing as I do, painting, sculpture, whatever art form you might produce is personal to you as its creator. I am starting the wonderful journey where I am asked to produce a piece directly for someone else (a commission). I have already found that it is not always easy to find exactly what that person …

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November 10, 2020

Commissions, invoices, click and collect sale…

A busier day than I had planned or expected. Yesterday a couple who had visited the shop in September emailed about a print they had admired. One copy left in shop was in frame, they wanted non framed. So today’s first art task was to go to shop, remove print, check card mount and prepare …

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November 8, 2020

Developing commission pieces

Until the last year commissioned work was something I was rarely approached about or confident to take on after some early pieces that didn’t work and I put myself under additional stress which I didn’t need. I have found with some clients that I haven’t had enough clarity about what they seek before starting a …

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