Today I read a blog post from another local gallery about people choosing art for their home. I realised I had never really thought that much about how my art fitted into people’s lives, more an assumption that if they bought a piece it was for a particular space. Customers have mentioned about colour scheme …
While my bricks and mortar shop is closed and my online shop hasn’t attracted custom presently I have kept busy the last two and a half weeks with commission work. Today I started my fifth Valentine commission, which came in last night. My hat commission was always going to go on hold if valentines pieces …
Art like a photograph is a record of a point in time. Yes you can edit both through digital manipulation with software or add to a piece of art over a period of time. To see places, objects at a point in time you need to be nosey – or observant as I sometimes try …
Change of plan today as Anne felt ill. So afternoon walk on my own I was earlier on the tide so walked barefoot on the beach instead of in the sea on way out and about half mile of paddling feet on return. As well as noticing marks in the shoreline and sand sand I …
Last night I drew an A6 study from some photos provided by a friend of the Sailability boats at Ringwood on the edge of the New Forest. Alex had told me how colourful the boats were. So I sketched out one of the photos in my relax before bedtime slot. I posted my progress of …
The other week I was scrolling through Instagram and came upon an interview between a french lady and Anna Barrow, a yoga teacher (amongst many other diverse roles) talking about Anna’s business. Anna is in the Purbeck Business and Community Group that I also joined last year. I paid interest as I come across so …
The view when I woke up, well there wasn’t much of one and the original forecast was wet. Later it cleared up, the tide was high which would limit our walk but his was good as we possibly overdid it yesterday. We watched the surfers having fun in the sea and I took a number …
An afternoon walk as the second day of the new moon spring tide. Today we saw some sections of the bay at the lowest tide point we have experienced which is fascinating as the water recedes.
So a whole 9 days into a lockdown that is predicted to probably last at least two months and I find as I am not working in one main sketchbook and instead doing A6 studies in my postcard sized pads offering 12 sheets in each. Yesterday I drew some pieces into a third pad as …