Today,Wednesday August 30th was my last trading day of the month before the shop celebrates its 2nd birthday on Friday September 1st. A habit from my teaching career is the collection of data to see if I can see patterns in the business. Obviously I keep accounts for income and expenditure; I also use a …
Today, Wednesday August 9th Art for Fun at the studio passed the milestone of 2000 people taking part in the activity. Three to four return families today from 2022 and 2023.New families discovering the activity for the first time. It gives me great satisfaction to see participation rise and alongside it so have my art …
The school holidays have started and Swanage will start to fill up with more visitors. Next weekend we see the start of Carnival week – not just a parade for Swanage. For me the shop will continue to open on the same four days of the week and keeping to my regular hours of 10 …
As those of you who have followed the development of AndyKnillArt will have noticed for a while I have neglected the blog as I post regularly on social media mainly through https://www.instagram.com/andyknillartstudio . I have found the photo aspect of Instagram easy todo while working at the studio. Now I need to reset my use …
I have completed my commissioned pith helmet and now comes the long wait until the clients gift it to its recipient and I hear about their response. For PAW 2023 I have so far: 1) completed Pith helmet for Year of the Coast 2023 2) Completed New Zealand (North island) holiday album pair of hand …
So last month I posted about posting on Instagram for March meet the maker where I completed a month of posts. I continue to post daily on Instagram with my Good morning from Swanage posts. In the studio account I share different things that are going on and currently trying a social media calendar of …
On the first of March I saw a post by Lucy Tidbury, our local successful artist on her 1st March post. I had forgotten all about the initiative but joined in as it’s a nice way to search the hashtag each day and find other creative people. Each day has a prompt except weekends when …
So, this is now my 7th year since starting AndyKnillArt and apart from the occasional item offered for sale I have never held an organised sale, until now. I need more space for my art so stick that hasn’t sold needs to go and if possible to sell it but for a reduced price. To …
Six years of being an artist and running my hobby in an extended form as a business. It seems amazing to me that I am still doing it and people keep coming forward to buying my work and /or sitting down to draw with me. I started with the intention of seeing if I could …
So I have just gone through my years photos and selected some aspects of the year as a record of some of the arty things I have done. Comments / feedback welcomed. If you are in the changing rooms a lot between chorus numbers what can you do? I sketched and they proved so popular …