Blogging has to be scheduled I think if I am to keep readers on here (if I have any left) updated. I have been active on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok with my personal accounts, shop accounts and now Heart of Swanage accounts. Andy, the artist The sailing season has arrived and the anticipated start has …
So, on Thursday 23rd I assisted Sara Parker from Dorset Coast Forum on the rearranged Open Classroom day with three local primary schools. The children aged from year 3 (7 to 8 yrs) to year six (10 to 11 yrs). Over the day we did 6 trails and 153 pupils in total. I was there …
I started my art journey that led to AndyKnillArt etc in 2015. It was my mindful exercise to take my mind off school and work. In the journey of my life since 2015 that link has been one of positive support for my mental health. However, I go through points where I feel a need …
As last week we had so many of the year 4 class not drawing on the boilersuit we arranged that I would go back into school and today including morning break was there for almost three hours. The missing pupils pieces were added and I ran extra sketching tasks based around the ProMarker pens themselves, …
I didn’t post yesterday, Saturday July 2. At the shop I had 8 adults do Art for Fun from 10 am through to about 1pm – it was wonderful to have adults taking part, it is an age group I want to involve more. Local friend Pam took part after many requests to try it …
So today was session three of three with both Year 3 and 4 at the local primary school as part of our sketching project. A wet morning so I was so glad that we did our outdoor sketching last week. The classroom title has significance because I fled almost from classrooms as a location early …
In conversation with other local businesses we have reflected how it is impossible to predict what may happen on any given day. So Friday had seen the sale of two cards but pleasing as it took sales over £100 for the week. Today cooler, dry for most of it except some light showers near the …
Best Tuesday for sales since September 2021 during PAW 2021 and the month I opened AndyKnillStudio. So today was good for sales but also constructive with work done / completed. First work task was labelling and putting on sale cards 11 to 18 of the Kayaker series featuring my Linoprint cut. Then I went onto …
In 2018 I was invited to work with the Year 3 and 4 classes at one of our local primary schools linking sketching to their local area unit. I developed a four hour unit which today I got to repeat with a third cohort. Visit One I do an introduction to me as Andy the …