Wednesday 21 July 2021 will none remembered in our household for a while. The nearest day to it was one 23 years ago – the common factor? … Meanwhile, poor sleep due to heat, left home after 9.30, arrived at shop to ask gent asking after my wooden art poseable figure – was it for …
Another very hot day with lots of shop ventilation. Again I stayed in the shop, drank lots of water and stayed hydrated. Art for fun – .so a friend came during her day off to do some Art for fun. Amazing drawing skills based on a picture on her phone. A. coped well when I …
The momentous ‘freedom day’ when to be honest I think most businesses continued their covid safeguards due to rising cases locally. I had planned and used the day to relaunch ‘art for fun’ one of my key principles behind the shop premises in November 2019. Last time it ran until March 2020 and the first …
July 19 – “freedom day” misnamed really so keeping many of shop expectations the same from tomorrow. Also Art for fun returns as an activity with the option to use two new tables together or separately and inside or outside he shop or a combination of the two. We will see how it goes.
I consider this an essential business skill whether it be verbal or written, letter or email, honest or measured. It has been for a long time now, ie about March 2020 the biggest fault line in the business connection between myself and my fellow business premises cotenant. I have been very open about my mental …
This is one of he things I used to do when I first started sketching back in 2015/2016. Then I had my phase of art bombing – leaving art on napkins in some cafes around 2016/2017 and maybe 2018. Today we had been to visit Anne’s mum and went down to Burlington Chine and Down …
The second week of visiting Upwey and James at Art2Card to: a) take in some work for new prints and cards – today it was my Golden Horizon piece completed on Tuesday & Wednesday. I was originally to just sell this as a one off original only, then contact yesterday evening led to a request …
Another quiet day for sales, it is what it is. I had quite a few good chats with visitors about various aspects of art including telling some about Art for fun restarting on Monday from 10 – based on the last two days I need an earlier night on Sunday and an early arrival at …
Today a visitor came into the shop who had received the original drawing of “Sailing from Chapmans Pool” as an engagement present from her parents. They bought it during PAW 2018 from my Open Studio because the proposal had been on the stone bench at the St Aldhelm’s end of the valley of steps between …
Fairly quiet in terms of sales but quite a few browsing visitors today the shop. I await the full details of the governments plans for July 19th plus as I want to restart the ‘Art for fun’ table with visitors. So I have worn the Watersports (in Swanage Bay) boilersuit today and worked on paper …