Today I started a project for my self. Last year I had seen and started chatting online with El of Southbourne about her vintage workwear and looking at drawing on some of it. I bought myself a shop coat earlier in the year and today I started to add my work to it. I have …
So three days – seven new original cards drawn and out to clients. Back to sky and tree piece which will remain my main focus unless any more Mothers Day commissions come in before the 14th. Also ongoing marketing on instagram, Facebook and Tik Tok with daily blog posts and tomorrow a webinar about online …
So, this is the title I am following as a hashtag on the @andy.knill Instagram account for the remainder of this month. There are a series of tasks set for most days of the month but which spaces at the weekend in case life means that posts are falling behind. The aim is for businesses …
Last night in my local business network I introduced my Offer as Member offer of the Month – a 20% discount on my commissioned original greetings cards so £4 instead of the regular price of £5. This morning I woke to messages from five of the group and six cards ordered, 5 for Mother’s Day …
Took part in my regular business network meeting this evening and as I am member offer of the month forMarch we did a brief two minute art for fun activity – have some,items from home and in two minutes create something, drawings of unicorns pre prepared, toilet roll figures, recycled packaging hat, bunny rabbit from …
A fortnght of various emotional rollercoaster prompts that has decidedly impacted on my creativity – but finished a small surfers wooden box and now starting next commission on my 2021 list. Be warned this is a post of bits… Enjoying the joy of drawing trees again and the intricate patterns of overlying branches. We looked …
I have always been honest with people and especially my own children that I don’t know all the answers. This means that I am open to learning new things on a daily basis. This sometimes fell on stoney ground with teenagers I worked with who wanted “learning” to stop as soon as possible. As a …
When I came to art I planned to do my own drawings, the idea that someone would ask me individually to draw something in particular for them seemed unlikely and I wasn’t sure with my damaged mental health I would cope with client demands. Then after my first sale I was commissioned to draw some …
No, nothing special, an account of my day and how it links into being an artist. I set out to be a part time artist, I do not draw all day and especially now in lockdown I don’t even work the hours I do when sat in the shop drawing and waiting for visitors / …
My key starting point for this art journey was in June 2015 when I visited a shop on London, bought myself an A5 pad and two fineliner pens. So, there you are in 2015 I started with fineliner black pens in two nib widths. I was too nervous to try colour at the time. So …