So, Sunday was busier than originally planned. Lots of our local friends wouldn’t be surprised about that at all. From an art point of view I took a selection of photos on our morning walk including time on the pier, watching the sailing club going out to race, seafront. I started a sketch after my …
A strange occurrence – a good nights sleep – ok some wake ups but two distinct phases of longer sleep makes Andy a happy man. So, yesterday I had gone for an early walk. Today as I have a day to spend with Anne a slower start. That washing up I hadn’t done last night, …
May has been a very slow month, unsurprisingly as the cost of living crisis deepens and art is in no way an essential item to be buying. The question in my mind would PAW see the usual art lovers out and about? Two days in and I have taken this month’s sales from my worst …
Apologies to anyone looking for any blog posts from me I have lost the blogging thread recently. So it is now second half of May and the business factor has picked up a notch. This week: Monday morning – spent at local primary school where for the third time I offer my 4 hour sketching …
My mother in law celebrated her 100th birthday today and until you celebrate someone’s 100th birthday do you find out how easy or difficult it is to find a suitable card as the ideal is seen as a card with the number on. So we went for smaller helium balloons rather than huge numbers. A …
Today is day 18 for Marchmeetthemaker and the prompt today is colour. Obviously from previous posts I use colour in quite a lot of my work. When I am out and about I often dress in quite dull colours but when on duty at the shop or art events out comes the logo pith helmet …
Today’s MarchMeettheMaker prompt for day 12 is “In use”, I have seen others show photos from customers where their art has been hung or displayed. Of course as I draw on things I thought they would be better examples for me. So,… Robin’s hat featured the yacht that he sails off Studland Bay, Captain Pugwash …
March 10 prompt for #MarchMeettheMaker. I told people in my Instagram post that I would give more detail about this series of photos. I also then amended my post as the newest aspect of marketing I am going to try is linking into Influencing – do I fully understand what it might involve – yes …
Since we moved down into Swanage to our maisonette /flat we have had the delight of looking out over a lot of Swanage Bay. So I have developed the new habit of posting a #Goodmorning #Swanage picture every day sharing the weather and the state of the bay at the start of our day which …
This is just a musing post. Obviously, with the second lockdown of the year the shop I share can not open as art can’t be described as essential. So that leaves the dilemma of how do you attract an audience to buy from you when the shop door is closed? This was my first account …