23 July 600 participants 03 August 700 participants 06 August 800 participants 23 August 900 participants 27 August 1000 participants Gobsmacked, very very happy and amazed that this many people have taken me up on the art for fun activity – yes it’s free but even so. This month over 340 people have taken part …
I have previously mentioned that I,would be starting this new initiative and today Anne and I setup the firstGuest Artist exhibition in the studio / shop which opens to the public from tomorrow. A notice about the idea: August artist detail Jessica’s work Noe we wait for feedback from visitors.
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, …
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 …
Tomorrow I am back in school so between yesterday and today I put together packs of cards for four tree art based tasks that encourage the children to look at the images on 10 card designs of mine and draw some tree features for themselves. Also the boiler suit pictures to be drawn on the …
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 …
A strange occurrence – a good nights sleep – ok some wake ups but two distinct phases of longer sleep makes Andy a happy man. So, yesterday I had gone for an early walk. Today as I have a day to spend with Anne a slower start. That washing up I hadn’t done last night, …
A busy one! As I had set up this morning a group of older teens appeared in Commercial road, I told them about Art for fun not really expecting any success, but heh you have to try. Next thing we had 8 and then a 9th of a group of 17 and 18year olds drawing …
So, Wednesday June 1st and back at the studio for the last two days on what are my normal working days. The art weeks have started well for me, just over a week ago I was worried I wouldn’t sell enough art to cover the studio’s rent last month. Now five days on and the …