First complete week for AndyKnillArt Studio. So this week I am open four days plus trips to printer and Rollington arm with my exhibition pieces. So today a mix of visitors and friends dropping by. I sold some cards and calendars. One lady joined me for Art for fun and several discussions with passers by …
So, two days out and now it must be Saturday although days seem to melt into each other at the moment. I woke early so mounted four more prints ready for PAW21 before breakfast. Down at the shop by about 9.15 once set up with tables outside I was sat drawing more long after 9.30 …
Today I have continued to post on social media. In Instagram I am trying to reduce the number of followers steadily on @andyatthecourtyardstudio and encourage new follows to the new shop account. This is working quite well and this evening the new shop account is already over 190 followers while the old shop a count …
So I was awake early, funny that I had been slightly nervous overnight. My new adventure of a solo shop / studio with the aim of returning to my happy place of sharing my love of drawing with others, my perennial target to sell some art and to enjoy myself doing it. The inside tour …
So, August 1 chapter 7 of my art career started I was going to be moving to a shop on my own. The job at hand was to make people aware of the project and start marketing and publicity. It has been a busy four weeks and tomorrow Wednesday September 1st Chapter 7 comes to …
So, much of today involved moving items from one shop premises to another. The current premises, rent paid to September 23 is almost empty of my work and furniture, I will finish this tomorrow morning. The new premises now contains much of my work and furniture and at the end of this afternoon we were …
Here I am being welcomed to 21 Commercial Road by Suzanne Dominy of Art Workshop and my landlord. Suzanne runs an art organisation that supports the sharing and learning of a range of art and craft skills. I indeed took part in the group back in 2017 with Anne and we learnt about acrylic painting …
So, early to the shop to do a bit more organising and decision making about furniture to move / take apart pre move to ‘AndyKnillArt Studio’ next Tuesday 31 for opening on Wed. Sept 1st at 10.00 a.m. Some admin done as well. Today was a much more encouraging day for the number of people …
Hi, so three days left, still sane and today ideas for art didn’t happen but important art admin did. So I didn’t draw but I did upload more photos, I did review needs for reprints for the shops / shop / Purbeck Art Weeks in September and sent in a big order for prints and …
Today at the shop (current) I had lots of chats, quite a few browsers, some buyers but not many and a family who came and had a go at Art for Fun. I also developed further the Durlston piece I started yesterday. The new shop came up in conversation a number of times for people …