A catch up with yesterday as didn’t get around to posting last night. Day 15 – helmet so a combo of safety and art Day 16 – compass – maths and navigation types So today at the shop five return visitors for Art for fun, some card sales, a gig postcard, a treasure chest and …
So todays prompt was roof so a range of examples drawn in fineliner only for todays piece and my starter drawing for the day. Also today I got on with a pen and ink commission piece. Also finding some card stocks were running low in the shop I restocked the carousel, shelf display and Christmas …
Today was another dry day, I sat outside all day and drew for quite a bit of it. The official prompt for a inktober today was “stuck” but to be honest, I wasn’t stuck at all as I worked on four pieces straight off this morning. Firstly I used the photos I had taken on …
So we woke to a hazy day that just looked like it would burn off to be a glorious sunny day and so it proved. Here are pictures of the bay before and after work. So I got to work set up even more tables outside as I would be outside the shop making the …
So today’s Inktober prompt was watch and I did three small sketches based on that. The shop morning was good working with Jacob acting as my videographer who is making me a digital film piece to advertise the shop. He got me to draw some line work and then add colour with some interesting angles …
Yep, I didn’t post last night because I just didn’t get around to blogging but I had drawn and posts on social media – see my Instagram account @andy.knill daily. So yesterday we had woken and seen a large RFA ship on the coast towards a Christchurch but it wasn’t showing on my ship app, …
Today it was cooler but dry. If you were in the sun and out of the wind it felt warm which is what I did for the first 2.5 hours outside the shop at a table completing the other 5 boxes of cards stock take that I started yesterday. As the sun was blocked I …
I set myself the difficult target of opening the shop from 10 to 5 on 14/16 days of the art festival in Purbeck. The other 2 days of the 16 in total include me doing a duty as a steward at Rollington Barn, the festivals main exhibition. Today at 5pm I shut the shop and …
Today early on I had some visitors from Dover on holiday who decided that they could rearrange pictures in their hall to accommodate two prints from me – Looking up at wintery sky and Last of the leaves – a very positive start to the day. Some cards but mainly quiet for purchases so I …
Today I put out some posts on my Facebook accounts to confirm that Monday 27 September I am closing the shop and having a day off after 13 consecutive days, a good decision knowing how tired I will be by the end of Saturday. At the shop for just before 10 and my first art …