Today has marked the second birthday of AndyKnillArt. Reading an article online last week about keeping accounts for your artwork especially if selling and what the trigger point is to be called a self-employed artist (£1000+ in sales apparently). I have utilised my IT skills gained when teaching to have two main art spreadsheets; my …
Just to let you know the series has one new design added and ready for printing and card proofs. The second new Purbeck card work has to wait until a new order of Midnight Blue promarkers arrive. New design completed is Studland. No pictures until proof card done.
My largest pen and ink piece to date – an upcycled canvas using brown kraft paper stapled over the canvas – 80 x 30 cms. So how did I go about it? I have a clear view of this from our utility room at the back of the house. The long wall is part of …
Carrying on from my last post I am currently working on two main pieces. In addition I am sketching when out in my sketchbook and / or on napkins as last week showed. The two main pieces are: Panoramic drystone wall piece which also features a large expanse of stone chippings in the foreground. The …
This week I have drawn three separate #napkinart pieces in two different cafes. This aspect of my art is a great release using a surface material that is not always easy. I am starting to get feedback from staff in two cafes about the art pieces, I do not know if the third one today …
When I was a child family holidays included the Yorkshire Moors, North Wales and the Lake District. I spent my university days in the Cotswolds. Each of these areas display a range of drystone walls of different appearances and different stones but they are an important landscape feature I have always admired. When we moved …
When I first moved to Dorset I looked around for local scenes with Christmas cards. At the time in 2016 I didn’t find any but have seen some since. I decided that I could use this idea of Christmas cards to draw some well known local views which many people have done but in a …
So, Artisans on the Beach has completed bar the wash up meeting on Thursday 10th, I need to make some notes to share what was involved and also aspects of the event to work on. One that has come up in discussion is the importance of clear communication during the event and the importance of …
Less artisans but another mild and dry day on the seafront. There were lots of people around and much answering to our greetings of Happy New Year and an extra sign across the road to say it if we weren’t heard. Took sales of cards and a framed print of PAW studio in the Snow …
Well there were certainly lots of people about in Swanage today and quite a few came and investigated what we had to offer at the artisan huts. For me more card sales and an original that has sat in Java – a Swanage Institution for a while has been sold to my best customer. December …