This morning I focused on cutting more of the linocut of a drystone wall and then using it to produce my third trial piece. I am please with the development and pleasantly surprised that I had the patience after realising yesterday that it really was too complex for your fifth ever design – I might …
I am aware how my range of art skills is limited. I draw with fineliners in pen and ink style or I use two sorts of marker pens – ProMarker and Posca markers for my colour pieces. A few years ago I had a go at linocut printing with swanage Art workshop and last year …
Today at the studi / shop, I had one local customer who bought some cards, less visitors but I got on with my drawing started yesterday of pier reflections. Then some rearranging of the shop’s displays, all of the original art cards are now together on the table on the original art side of the …
I decided today that a record of what I was already working on this month was needed so that I could be clear what I had already committed to and remind myself not to add additional projects at the moment. I decided to record this on the back of the January page in my calendar …
So, I am in the chorus for the local panto. This week during the dress rehearsal and three public performances I have needed a distraction in between the three chorus numbers. I decided to take some art materials on Thursday for the dress rehearsal and see how it went. Drawing materials; A6 postcard sized watercolour …
Not a topic that I haven’t included in my portfolio of work before but one that I continue to return to as a local inspiration. For my first four years in Purbeck I lived in a property with a boundary of walls on three of four sides. I saw walls everyday at home and on …
A dry forecast proves incorrect so rain stopped outside creativity a.m. but some time outside later in p.m. Another new sign with some additional ideas to add to it in the future. Rain forced me inside where I got in with my Watersports series ideas and a SUP design. This afternoon I started what will …
So as people here on holiday I thought I would open, a terrible forecast meant it wasn’t the best weather although drier for a bit this morning than I expected. Anne came for lunch, a couple of fellow shopkeepers said hi and then a visit from sculptor friend this afternoon. A reorganisation of the shop …
This morning I set out some options of surfaces to draw a new piece on. The choices were; wooden ring box, wooden chest, mini easel canvas. This would then add to the alternative small art gifts I offer. When I go out I always carry my mobile phone with camera and sometimes I also have …
2015: “On a recent visit to Cass art I saw a set of Promarkers on a special offer and decided to try them out as they offered a chance to use colour and thicker markers. Similar in principal to my pigment fine liners as the ink is alcohol based and is permanent. Therefore errors become …