I completed a postcard today of two divers waiting to go below Swanage pier. I started a second card of local fishing boats before going out on angling trips. Sold 14 greeting cards, some postcards, an original postcard and three prints – a good day of sales despite spending a lot of the day without …
So another shop day and just focusing on my work, my time and making more art. Last nights thunderstorms meant a very humid start to the day and Anne came to the shop with me so a careful descent of the hill from home. So as Anne had the wheelchair to get around we kept …
Another very hot day with lots of shop ventilation. Again I stayed in the shop, drank lots of water and stayed hydrated. Art for fun – .so a friend came during her day off to do some Art for fun. Amazing drawing skills based on a picture on her phone. A. coped well when I …
The second week of visiting Upwey and James at Art2Card to: a) take in some work for new prints and cards – today it was my Golden Horizon piece completed on Tuesday & Wednesday. I was originally to just sell this as a one off original only, then contact yesterday evening led to a request …
Another quiet day for sales, it is what it is. I had quite a few good chats with visitors about various aspects of art including telling some about Art for fun restarting on Monday from 10 – based on the last two days I need an earlier night on Sunday and an early arrival at …
Today a visitor came into the shop who had received the original drawing of “Sailing from Chapmans Pool” as an engagement present from her parents. They bought it during PAW 2018 from my Open Studio because the proposal had been on the stone bench at the St Aldhelm’s end of the valley of steps between …
Today, I made a new window display stand from two smaller remains of pallet and various other offcuts from previous shop diy display pieces. Did it all go to plan straightaway? No, of course not. But of course I hadn’t planned it before I got to the shop today. I moved my larger window vinyl …
Fairly quiet in terms of sales but quite a few browsing visitors today the shop. I await the full details of the governments plans for July 19th plus as I want to restart the ‘Art for fun’ table with visitors. So I have worn the Watersports (in Swanage Bay) boilersuit today and worked on paper …
The shop day was preceded by coffee and walk past coastal rowing regatta setting up on the beach. Drizzle this morning kept me inside initially then I drew on Watersports boilersuit outside for a bit. Later as the weather dried I spent more time outside. Some visitor / customers but a lot watched the rowing …
As many visitors have commented I am fairly prolific with new pieces of drawn work as I like to spend any shop / studio time producing new work as much as possible. I switch between projects often to keep my interest and motivation up. Today quite a few visitors and good sales for a Monday …