9 days since my last post. So what has been happening. RNLI Swanage Christmas card This has now gone on sale and I have a poster linked to it in the shop. The Facebook post by the lifeboat station has had over 100 likes and already people are telling me they have bought their cards, …
So 8 days ago, I posted about September in the life of AndyKnill Art. Things change so this is an update… Community art project Yes, the project is advancing. I put my Posca marker order in, it has arrived and I will receive it this week. The aluminium panels we will draw / paint on …
I have completed my commissioned pith helmet and now comes the long wait until the clients gift it to its recipient and I hear about their response. For PAW 2023 I have so far: 1) completed Pith helmet for Year of the Coast 2023 2) Completed New Zealand (North island) holiday album pair of hand …
So I have just gone through my years photos and selected some aspects of the year as a record of some of the arty things I have done. Comments / feedback welcomed. If you are in the changing rooms a lot between chorus numbers what can you do? I sketched and they proved so popular …
I shut my studio today and am taking a winter break and a chance to go and seek some new inspirations. So, I decided to add a drawing on my studio front window backed by a vertical blind. The piece would be drawn using Posca markers. In the end I used a mix of 5M …
‘Art for fun’ is the activity that I offer to others but I draw pictures just for fun too. Sometimes I gift them to a friend whose photos prompted an idea or I tried drawing the same subject as a child or someone said something and it just sparked an idea. Here are some recent …
Being a shopkeeper has sales needs to pay your bills. Today no good news on that side, however I had a good time hosting 8 people doing art for fun and at 230 participants in shop year 2 the figures are already edging towards 3 months ahead of the year 1 figures. So, the first …
Never an easy month as autumnal weather moves in and we have had stormier weather and rain. Each week now is a mystery as to how many visitors / customers I will see. On Tuesday I was in the shop as the weather meant it as far too wet to be outside and I had …
Inktober is a drawing event that I have now participated in a few times. I do not always manage to draw everyday as I might leave it really late to think of something and just run out of time. This year like last year I have created a display in the studio where I have …
I admit I did the drawings for the final two days of Inktober while at the studio / shop on Saturday in between handing out 193 art postcards to visitors for the Swanage businesses Tick or Treat event. Gear for me is usually associated with cycling and another example I thought was climbing gear.