Marchmeetthemaker day 19 prompt. Here are the photos I shared today as my life has several silver linings. I wake up everyday to a view of the Swanage bay and the wider Bay Area of Bournemouth sometimes as far as Hurst Castle, Hampshire. We moved into the flat inAugust 2020 after living for four years …
Marchmeetthemaker day 17 and the prompt is process. So where do you start to create a piece. The clip above shows the stages in drawing my current commission but it doesn’t show the pre drawing aspect. My task: Create a keepsake box for a teacher who is leaving to have a baby. Background: The client …
Day 14 of Marchmeetthemaker and another weekend chance to create my own prompt which today is to look for pieces of art drawn of scenes away from the water which has become so important in my Purbeck life. This was drawn from the drive of my friend Nick. I love the silver birches and drew …
Marchmeetthemaker does not have weekend prompts so this is one of my own developed more as Ilive by he coastand love boats. Some of these are drawn from photos on instagram as lockdown practices. An old friend from teaching volunteers at sailability and had told me about he coloured boat and sail combinations. When restrictions …
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 …
So day 11 in March Meet the Maker prompts on Instagram. I am reusing post work, I post on Instagram initially, it copies it to my artist Facebook page. Later I use the images to put together a clip for Tik Tok and now I am blogging about it too, it almost qualifies as linked …
March 10 prompt for #MarchMeettheMaker. I told people in my Instagram post that I would give more detail about this series of photos. I also then amended my post as the newest aspect of marketing I am going to try is linking into Influencing – do I fully understand what it might involve – yes …
As I have learnt to draw and improved my technique I became conscious of different things that could be drawn better and then worked on this as a skill. Trees were one of the aspects I worked on as there are many in the Purbeck landscape? I am very keen on trees in winter with …
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 …
So three days – seven new original cards drawn and out to clients. Back to sky and tree piece which will remain my main focus unless any more Mothers Day commissions come in before the 14th. Also ongoing marketing on instagram, Facebook and Tik Tok with daily blog posts and tomorrow a webinar about online …