New A4 piece of art completed today. It is based on a sketch drawn last weekend down below the sailing club. It was drawn out in Staedtler pigment liner and then colour with Winsor & Newton ProMarkers. It will not be made into prints and like my other lockdown pieces so far will sell only …
So Monday June 1 shops are able to open * (*subject to …). My plan to reopen The Courtyard Studio, Swanage on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday from 10 to 5 with me (Andy) on duty. Times for my fellow sole trader tbc. Social distancing measures will restrict the number of customers inside but I …
Well October is here. I should have hung my first solo exhibition on Sunday and spent the last two mornings at the primary school and out on the seafront sketching. I should have but a chest infection and my asthma have intervened. Nothing is cancelled and hopefully I can report on them very soon. So …
This afternoon I took part in what turned out to be a small exercise, the joint judging entries for the Purbeck Art Weeks 2019 sketching competition. There were entries from both adults and children. A remit had been to represent the PAW event. One adult design took in a number of activities within the event …
The forecast was sunshine all day so careful sitting in the shade would be needed to avoid getting too much sun. I started the studio day drawing the view from our drive towards the field that lies in front of us, this will hopefully develop into an A3 pen and ink piece. I drew for …
So, after I posted yesterday one of my friends who visited posted about his visit on Facebook and I have thanked him already but felt very humbled to be honest. So a new day, the forecast overcast and maybe sunny spells but a stronger westerly breeze. The morning was very quiet until a family group …
If you produce art you obviously need some art supplies. One of the greatest costs in my first two years as an artist has been to build a stock of tools to produce my art and materials to draw onto. Every so often I then need to check how my stock is. If I had …
Recently I have produced more pen and ink pieces. This also linked to some of my sketches while on holiday in Canada. Indeed on Easter Monday I sat outside the artisan yard in Wareham, Sue Maclean was working on a pointillist piece of Wareham and I started an A3 version of my sketch from the …
A change of plan re sharing my main piece I have been working on this week. So each year Purbeck Art Weeks has a competition at the start of the year linked to the chosen theme for that year. Art 2D or 3D can be submitted that fulfils the theme brief and may be selected …
Carrying on from my last post I am currently working on two main pieces. In addition I am sketching when out in my sketchbook and / or on napkins as last week showed. The two main pieces are: Panoramic drystone wall piece which also features a large expanse of stone chippings in the foreground. The …