I will not be in The Courtyard Studio on my shifts for: Today, Wed. 11 August Saturday 14 August Monday 16, Tue 17 and Wed 18 August If self isolation goes to plan I will be back on: Saturday 21 August from 10 to 5 but will confirm this beforehand on my social media feeds …
So today my main drawing focus was to continue with the A3 fishermans boats piece. I completed the line work and made progress with promarker colour. New marketing materials – posters and flyers arrived. Then after work discovered my cold and other symptoms are delta variant symptoms, so notified people at shop and we went …
I am often posting for people to join me at the shop to participate in Art for Fun, I also draw for fun, my drawings are drawn by me to represent places I have visited, scenes I have seen. I carry a pad of art postcards these days, the same pieces of paper that I …
Today while at the shop I added additional layers and pen detail over marker layers to complete my piece of Durlston cliffs and Anvil Point lighthouse. On Tuesday I had drawn my initial line drawing in pigment fineliner. As the above photo shows I had started to add the darker rocks at the foot of …
So today my new business cards arrived 4 days early, this time the careful proof checking meant no typos unlike last time. Tomorrow I will start to sort out ready for recycling marketing materials for The Courtyard Studio which will be out of date in 26 days time. This afternoon I have designed and ordered …
So today is a rest day / day off from the shop, the next fortnight I will be back to four days of shop and art. This morning we were in town and went down to see new place and took picture of the front to post on social media as building awareness this month …
Today at the shop (current) I had lots of chats, quite a few browsers, some buyers but not many and a family who came and had a go at Art for Fun. I also developed further the Durlston piece I started yesterday. The new shop came up in conversation a number of times for people …
So today I updated the signs in my front and back windows in The Courtyard Studio about the new shop. I spoke with some other businesses in the courtyard making sure all are aware of the move. I checked my square business card which has proved very popular and identified details that needed to change …
The chapter 7 link refers to my earlier post today. So, a new shop, a new chapter and a need to start letting people know what is happening and where I will be. An early wake up and as often happens I got into a groove and created two new social media accounts: So on …
Chapter One June 2015 Keeping sketchbooks I bought a small A5 sketchbook and a set of fineliners on a day trip to London. This was my chance to try sketching and keeping a record of my drawings as an attempt to switch off from work and give me some headspace as my friend Lucie G …