Fairly quiet in terms of sales but quite a few browsing visitors today the shop. I await the full details of the governments plans for July 19th plus as I want to restart the ‘Art for fun’ table with visitors. So I have worn the Watersports (in Swanage Bay) boilersuit today and worked on paper …
We have just returned from a visit to Essex to see our eldest son J. We had a trip out to Abbotsbury reservoir and spent time in a developing woodland by the water with Essex wildlife trust. I haven’t done much art of flowers, plants except ‘Tree fern’ which I was very proud that my …
The shop day was preceded by coffee and walk past coastal rowing regatta setting up on the beach. Drizzle this morning kept me inside initially then I drew on Watersports boilersuit outside for a bit. Later as the weather dried I spent more time outside. Some visitor / customers but a lot watched the rowing …
A day off where we just stepped back and took time out, a good thing to do from time to time.
Yesterday in the shop as it was too wet to draw outside I continued to add detail to my newest drawing. I had finished Monday with adding the geology details to both Peveril Point and Ballard Down / Point in fineliner. I find that with / without photos, the more I look at particular stretches …
As many visitors have commented I am fairly prolific with new pieces of drawn work as I like to spend any shop / studio time producing new work as much as possible. I switch between projects often to keep my interest and motivation up. Today quite a few visitors and good sales for a Monday …
Using some pigment fineliners and then Posca markers today I have completed the first side of the sleeve with kayakers and canoeists on the Swanage side of Old Harry and Handfast Point. Then I mirrored the Old Harry rocks on the other side of the sleeve.I then added a variety of motorised watercraft seen locally. …
Only one sketch today while having a coffee outside Java, pleased with detail through windows of Ciaron’s signs. I took the camera on our walk this afternoon with youngest along the seafront and caught some items that I noticed – definite drawing possibilities at some time – so many possibilities to be honest and never …
Visits to: The Blue Pool Tearoom / cafe for lunch – nicely refurnished Walk around The Blue Pool – lots of photos taken for potential work Sit on a bench dedicated to the previous owners after a hilly scramble up from the pool shore and sketch 2. Onto The Pink Goat in a Corfe Castle …
A sunny and hotter day so sat outside but eventually getting up and down put paid to my comfy chair – now set for the tip. Commission – collection of birthday card piece. Worked on one side of one sleeve of Watersports boiler suit with a group out kayaking and canoeing near Old Harry Rocks …