The second week of visiting Upwey and James at Art2Card to: a) take in some work for new prints and cards – today it was my Golden Horizon piece completed on Tuesday & Wednesday. I was originally to just sell this as a one off original only, then contact yesterday evening led to a request …
Another quiet day for sales, it is what it is. I had quite a few good chats with visitors about various aspects of art including telling some about Art for fun restarting on Monday from 10 – based on the last two days I need an earlier night on Sunday and an early arrival at …
So today’s post is about my second safety boat duty in three days at Swanage Sailing Club. I had decided when volunteering for safety duties that two after each other would help consolidate any new skills. Sunday had been very calm but I had learnt about the anchoring method for the racing marks in the …
Today a visitor came into the shop who had received the original drawing of “Sailing from Chapmans Pool” as an engagement present from her parents. They bought it during PAW 2018 from my Open Studio because the proposal had been on the stone bench at the St Aldhelm’s end of the valley of steps between …
Today, I made a new window display stand from two smaller remains of pallet and various other offcuts from previous shop diy display pieces. Did it all go to plan straightaway? No, of course not. But of course I hadn’t planned it before I got to the shop today. I moved my larger window vinyl …
I didn’t rest physically today except this afternoon, but arty aspect rested. In the shop for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday for the next fortnight and plan is art for fun from 19th – need to come up with a risk assessment where choice and responsibility belongs to the customer.
As I have posted previously the working connection between myself and shop co-tenant started to sour just 3 months in to the tenancy, but lockdowns have provided some time outs. I wish….I had been wiser before I made the commitment to co- tenant and also knew the other artist better. But I didn’t so I …
Literally, my art today was a sketch drawn in fineliner of the view through the arch of Tilly Mead between Java and Swanage Bay Fish when we stopped for a coffee on our way back from the market this morning. Later I was looking at any business premises available locally as alternatives to where I …
I may not have been at the shop but today has involved an order, some web account admin and collecting a map to help with a boiler suit. So order – a lightweight artists chair using my SAA membership which is my art association membership for public liability etc. This will replace the garden chair …
After last nights announcement by the UK government ahead of the relaxing,of covid regulations from July 19th I have started to plan in my own head my risk assessment and arrangements for the shop and what I can do to make all customers comfortable but also reintroduce the art for fun table. So last night …