Today my mother in law Vi came after her lunch out to visit the studio and she had said that she would try drawing. This is not something that I have ever known her to do since I first met her in 1992. Vi also has macular degeneration which means her sight is very limited, …
When I draw at the studio/shop I am often producing pieces to sell, but not always. Sometimes when I am hosting people to do ‘Art for fun’ I will draw a piece for a reluctant child to colour in. Or, I will draw a fun postcard to amuse myself at trying something new, sometimes I …
For me this is a creature of ugliness seen on drains on old churches or sometimes other historical buildings usually made of stone. Drawing this from memory / imagination limits the detail but I am pleased with today’s first piece.
Inktober is back, a daily drawing challenge in ink / pen. There is no pressure to spend loads of time on the drawing, nor doyou have to complete a piece every day. I use it as a challenge to respond to the daily prompts and stretch my mind thinking of creative ideas from my own …
23 July we passed 600 and had 25 people draw over two days. Yesterday on Wednesday 3 August we passed 700 and have had 40 people draw to start August off. Anne has been with me more at the shop helping chat with people, guide art for fun activity, take sales and has realised how …
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, …
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 …
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 …