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 …
Today I have continued to post on social media. In Instagram I am trying to reduce the number of followers steadily on @andyatthecourtyardstudio and encourage new follows to the new shop account. This is working quite well and this evening the new shop account is already over 190 followers while the old shop a count …
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, August 1 chapter 7 of my art career started I was going to be moving to a shop on my own. The job at hand was to make people aware of the project and start marketing and publicity. It has been a busy four weeks and tomorrow Wednesday September 1st Chapter 7 comes to …
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 …
Saturday and a shop day, my 3rd to last shift at The Courtyard Studio. But also the first day that I had the keys to my new shop, so today Anne and I started the the transfer of materials, stock etc. So the first aspect was to add some marketing and advertising in the window. …
Here I am being welcomed to 21 Commercial Road by Suzanne Dominy of Art Workshop and my landlord. Suzanne runs an art organisation that supports the sharing and learning of a range of art and craft skills. I indeed took part in the group back in 2017 with Anne and we learnt about acrylic painting …
Thursday – yesterday we had collected five local artists work from Art2Card printers. We dropped off the business materials for The Pink Goat as we came back through Corfe Castle. Last night and today we messaged the others to confirm when they could collect from me around our day. So today two artists collected their …
Today was a trip out to see James the printer I use for my art prints and cards and I am now in my fifth year of doing so. I took the two newest pieces to be scanned for prints and cards to be made from to go on sale in Purbeck Art Weeks 21 …
Self isolation when you take anti depressants and have a long history of mental health can stay balanced but if something knocks you it can turn quickly. Unfortunately today that happened to me. So art wise I haven’t drawn or created anything. I have however tidied and organised that pile of receipts that I had …