At the start of 2022 I set myself two targets to work on; to try some Lino/relief printing; to draw some panoramas. I have produced some Linoprint pieces but need to return to printing best copies of my drystonewall series; developing use of the beach marker piece and continue to sell the kayaker cards. Panoramawise …
As last week we had so many of the year 4 class not drawing on the boilersuit we arranged that I would go back into school and today including morning break was there for almost three hours. The missing pupils pieces were added and I ran extra sketching tasks based around the ProMarker pens themselves, …
I didn’t post yesterday, Saturday July 2. At the shop I had 8 adults do Art for Fun from 10 am through to about 1pm – it was wonderful to have adults taking part, it is an age group I want to involve more. Local friend Pam took part after many requests to try it …
Progress in small steps with eye and hand breaks once I got into the pebble section – differing ideas on the next step which I will work out before committing to his A3 new drawing. When seen working on this on Saturday the shocked reaction to the fact that yes I hand draw every pebble …
So today was session three of three with both Year 3 and 4 at the local primary school as part of our sketching project. A wet morning so I was so glad that we did our outdoor sketching last week. The classroom title has significance because I fled almost from classrooms as a location early …
In conversation with other local businesses we have reflected how it is impossible to predict what may happen on any given day. So Friday had seen the sale of two cards but pleasing as it took sales over £100 for the week. Today cooler, dry for most of it except some light showers near the …
Best Tuesday for sales since September 2021 during PAW 2021 and the month I opened AndyKnillStudio. So today was good for sales but also constructive with work done / completed. First work task was labelling and putting on sale cards 11 to 18 of the Kayaker series featuring my Linoprint cut. Then I went onto …
At the shop on Friday we had a visit in passing by Louise and her son Leo. Leo chose to try on two of my pith helmets and the joy on his face was wonderful to behold. Anne and I agreed a hat for Leo would be good soon Saturday early on at the shop …
In 2018 I was invited to work with the Year 3 and 4 classes at one of our local primary schools linking sketching to their local area unit. I developed a four hour unit which today I got to repeat with a third cohort. Visit One I do an introduction to me as Andy the …
Today the shop was back open and I worked on some ideas using coloured paper as backgrounds. Drawing in fineliner, gelly roll white and Posca pens. It was nice just to try an idea and see some positive opportunities going forwards.