No resolutions just an intention to: – keep making art that I enjoy – encouraging others to try drawing through Art for Fun – selling enough art to cover the costs of running the business … and let’s see where that takes AndyKnillArt in 2024.
So today was the 19th and I am on about 50% of my usual sales in a slow December previously. Card sales have recovered this month and I am back over 125 cards sold this month so far helped by Christmas cards. Some commissions have helped, but small pieces and turned around quickly, like an …
I have created many spaces online but never managed to share all of my portfolio of work in one place. At last it is hopefully starting. earlier this month when I added some extra pages to this site I put space to share the different aspects of my art. I have now photographed the printed …
Hi, so a wet and windy day. This afternoon I got round to a task that was long overdue in adding sections to my website that I now have to populate with images of all of my art portfolio. The new menu structure available at the top right of the homepage of AndyKnillArt.com gives you …
So December has started. We had the town’s Rotary Christmas Fair on Saturday, last year saw a very poor day for my sales. This year a crisp, sunny but freezing day saw lots of card sales. In the last week, a visitor to the town who saw one of my cards on display in Pursenalities …
So, on Thursday 23rd I assisted Sara Parker from Dorset Coast Forum on the rearranged Open Classroom day with three local primary schools. The children aged from year 3 (7 to 8 yrs) to year six (10 to 11 yrs). Over the day we did 6 trails and 153 pupils in total. I was there …
I am currently pausing to decide the final steps of a 30 x 80 cm vertical panorama piece depicting the damage to my art panels by Storm Ciaran. It is by its very nature a historical piece but for me a good marker of how my interests in physical geography have overlapped. Drawn in Posca …
So I dream the end panel on Friday after completing the pier panel. I have used the above panel to talk about those,involved in my section ie. Dorset Coast Forum, myself as AndyKnillArt, AllSort’d and sponsor Chococo. The circles were drawn courtesy of a chococo plate as a stencil, the middle circle was distorted when …
Flooding Swanage with art – community project I have now had my additional panels (6 x 1550 mm). 3 left to draw – first of those started. To date; Drawn on own Bumper long panel – a pilot cutter off the shore, as sailing ships that historically would have visited the Swanage coast. Bumper end …
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, …