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 …
Thursday, Friday and Saturday shop days for PAW remain and energy is seriously flagging, not helped by irregular sleep,patterns. I will need my rest on Sunday pm / Monday and time out to just “be”. Today some visitors, good feedback and prints and cards bought again. Then in the afternoon the promised visit of four …
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 …
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, 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 …
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 …
So I did some tidying / sorting in studio / office / junk room last night and have more art supplies in front room with ,e – it’s a mess but some semblance of planning possible activities. As photo shows I have plenty of ProMarkers in here and a variety of art pads to use. …
So today my main drawing focus was to continue with the A3 fishermans boats piece. I completed the line work and made progress with promarker colour. New marketing materials – posters and flyers arrived. Then after work discovered my cold and other symptoms are delta variant symptoms, so notified people at shop and we went …
Today at the shop three mums and seven children visited aged Four upwards and I managed to fit them around the two folding tables towards the back of the shop and was also able to seat them all. They all had quite clear ideas to work on and two of them did a picture on …
Today while at the shop I added additional layers and pen detail over marker layers to complete my piece of Durlston cliffs and Anvil Point lighthouse. On Tuesday I had drawn my initial line drawing in pigment fineliner. As the above photo shows I had started to add the darker rocks at the foot of …