At the start of 2022 I set myself two targets to work on; to try some Lino/relief printing; to draw some panoramas. I have produced some Linoprint pieces but need to return to printing best copies of my drystonewall series; developing use of the beach marker piece and continue to sell the kayaker cards. Panoramawise …
A section of the bar with the mural work of Some Art – a former college contemporary of Pav. We are spending more time here in the calmness that Sophie has created in Station Road, Swanage.
As last week we had so many of the year 4 class not drawing on the boilersuit we arranged that I would go back into school and today including morning break was there for almost three hours. The missing pupils pieces were added and I ran extra sketching tasks based around the ProMarker pens themselves, …
When I am at the shop I don’t sketch often as the view is the same every shop day re. commercial Road. So I take the opportunity to sketch when in different places. Today we had lunch at Java and sat in a different place and after finishing before Anne I took the opportunity to …
So today was session three of three with both Year 3 and 4 at the local primary school as part of our sketching project. A wet morning so I was so glad that we did our outdoor sketching last week. The classroom title has significance because I fled almost from classrooms as a location early …
In conversation with other local businesses we have reflected how it is impossible to predict what may happen on any given day. So Friday had seen the sale of two cards but pleasing as it took sales over £100 for the week. Today cooler, dry for most of it except some light showers near the …
Today we noticed: The state of the northern unmanaged section of the beach The smoothness of the chalk pebbles How I managed to swim much further than on my first two swims the other week The sea felt warmer today We didn’t get the possible thundery showers Pip Hare returned in Medallia her IMOCA 60 …
In 2018 I was invited to work with the Year 3 and 4 classes at one of our local primary schools linking sketching to their local area unit. I developed a four hour unit which today I got to repeat with a third cohort. Visit One I do an introduction to me as Andy the …
So, Sunday was busier than originally planned. Lots of our local friends wouldn’t be surprised about that at all. From an art point of view I took a selection of photos on our morning walk including time on the pier, watching the sailing club going out to race, seafront. I started a sketch after my …
A busy one! As I had set up this morning a group of older teens appeared in Commercial road, I told them about Art for fun not really expecting any success, but heh you have to try. Next thing we had 8 and then a 9th of a group of 17 and 18year olds drawing …